FAQ.
Children develop academic skills equal to or better than children from conventional schools, though with different pacing. Children move through the development process and emerge as self-reliant, free-thinking, creative, analytical, moral and socially-minded, critically thinking people ready to move on with their education and to meet whatever challenges they need to meet.
Children start formal learning (i.e.) reading, writing and numeracy in grade one at the age of 6. Cognitive skills can be introduced with relative ease if children have first had the opportunity to develop speech, co-ordination and their relationship to themselves, others and the world around them during the early years (KG).
Art is a keystone of the Waldorf curriculum, with artistic activities woven into the entire curriculum. Art is not a compartmentalized “lesson” presented without any relationship to the rest of the curriculum. It is an element not only of every activity in the curriculum, but even of every moment spent in the school experience.
Children who transfer from a Waldorf school into a more traditional school setting during grades 1-3 will likely need to spend time over the summer refining their reading skills, as Waldorf schools' approach to teaching reading is a more graduated approach. On the otherhand, students often find they are more advanced in speech and language, social studies,mathematics, and artistic activities. Children moving during the middle and upper gradesshould experience no academic problems. In fact, in most cases, transferring students of thisage group find themselves ahead of their classmates and with an eagerness to learn.


