The Class 3-4 children have just completed a term of twice weekly lessons with Derek in the Artisan Workshop. It was our first time in the workshop, and the beginning of our journey with woodwork. In the Steiner world, the child’s life body spends its first years expertly sculpting the organs. By the beginning of primary school, it is then available to the child to sculpt their world. So freely manipulating clay, beeswax, plasticene, soapstone, wood creatively draws on these forces. Creative and health giving for the rest of the child’s life.
After 20 years working as a civil engineer, manager and general manager, John joined the School in 2001 and has taken several cycles of primary school students from 1st to 7th class. A founding Director, he has also been the School’s Business Manager and Company Secretary, and currently chairs the Finance Committee.
“Through an education immersed in beauty, imagination and creativity, the growing child can step into the world with independence, confidence and deep social engagement: liberty, fraternity, equality.”
