VISION: Nurturing wholistic beings.
MISSION: To be the leading inspirational school in Kenya by nurturing, through Waldorf education,
balanced, free individuals who are capable of critical,creative, and flexible thinking.
Why Waldorf?
Discover a wholistic education. Discover the Nairobi Waldorf School Trust.
The Nairobi Waldorf School Trust nourishes the intellectual, physical, and artistic development of
the child; cultivating each child’s unique contribution for the future through the unfolding of
courage, compassion, and truth.
The Nairobi Waldorf School Trust is dedicated to providing education inspired by the Waldorf philosophy. Most of our faculty have completed a recognized Waldorf teacher education program
and are committed to teaching in ways that foster truth, beauty, and goodness. This foundation
maximizes the potential for learning, loving, and creating to unfold naturally in children while
helping to remove obstacles in their paths. Academics, art, music, and movement are interwoven to
meet the developmental needs of the whole child.
Through Waldorf education, we are preparing children to be conceptual thinkers whose self-understanding,
compassion, expressiveness, and creative problem-solving skills equip them to take on life to its
fullest potential.
THINKING, FEELING, WILLING
Every one of us relates to education in a unique way, but all of us have seen or will see the impact of education in their life, as a child, as a parent, and as a citizen interacting with other people whose personality and behaviour have been shaped by a certain education system.
Most of us remember education as mainly developing the ability of our brain in such a way that we learn to develop one form of intelligence. However, through the teachings of Rudolf Steiner, we can understand the human being has the extraordinary power of developing multiple intelligences. If education is about bringing forth what is within, then it should do more than just focus on our mind, but also empower our heart and our hands.
Educating the Head, the Heart, and the Hands is what Waldorf Education is all about.
Why Choose Us
Unique Teacher Approach
Waldorf education utilizes a unique class teacher approach. The class teacher stays with their class from grade 1 and throughout their primary school years. The teacher assumes a deeply connected role to their class, forming a social group with the children and parent body that helps to support learning. Retaining the same teacher helps to establish routines that become second nature to the children.
Tailored for Each Developmental Age
The Waldorf curriculum is designed to meet each stage of a child’s development from early childhood, through adolescence, into young adulthood.
Experiential Learning
The Main Lesson approach is unique to Waldorf Schools. The morning main lesson is a one and a half to two-hour period in which the main academic work of the day is presented. The selected subject is taught in a comprehensive three or four week block, allowing for freshness, enthusiasm and a concentrated, in-depth experience that gives children time to digest what has been learned.
Cognitive and Artistic Disciplines
Waldorf education was the first to recognize the value of “block” learning. Immersion in a single subject promotes horizontal integration of cognitive and artistic disciplines,as well as vertical integration through an ascending spiral of learning that revisits subjects throughout the year – and from year to year. This results in a profound,age-appropriate education
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