What is the curriculum at a Steiner school like?
The Steiner curriculum is designed to be responsive to the various phases of a childs development. The relationship between student and teacher is, likewise, recognised to be both crucial and changing throughout the course of childhood and early adolescence. Each class begins the school day with the Morning Circle. The circle involves the whole class, and usually includes movement, gesture, recitation, singing and counting activities. The circle may include all of these activities or just take in a few. The Morning Circle Time can be very enriching for the children in a deep way, and can strengthen them for the days task ahead, the circle has left them bright and enlivened and ready to move happily into the main lesson work. In the Morning Circle the memory is exercised, the children learn to listen, to observe, to speak, to sing and to dance. The movements involve development of spatial awareness, co-ordination and social awareness. The main subjects, such as history, language arts, s
