About
EvoGreen Gatha Waldorf Learning Centre
Ethos
We honour, protect and nurture the physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual development of each student. We respect and revere the natural world and embrace our responsibility as stewards of the earth.
Aims
The aim of the Gatha Waldorf education is to develop the whole child into a learning citizen, ready to engage with the world, with skills developed in creative problem-solving, adaptability, and cooperation.
Vision
Gatha Waldorf education’s vision is to inspire life-long learning in all students and to enable them to fully develop their unique capacities.
Mission
Founded on Rudolf Steiner’s humanitarian curriculum, Gatha Waldorf awakens and inspires students’ critical thinking, emotional intelligence, and artistic expression, and foster in children, a reverence to surroundings.
Approach
Waldorf education brings age-appropriate content and methods to each stage of a child's development.
Stages of Growth
The Waldorf approach recognizes human beings as three-fold in nature — consisting of a mind, spirit, and body — and educates that entire being in preparation for a life of meaning and purpose. At each stage in their educational journey, we meet the children where they are.
Early Childhood
Imitation
Up to age seven, children learn to stand, talk, and think without formal instruction, but through imitation. Young children mimic everything in their environment, from the sounds and gestures of people to the attitudes and values of parents and peers. Our early childhood program provides an environment worthy of imitation, with daily and seasonal activities delivered in a natural environment infused with beauty and kindness.
Lower and Middle School
Imagination
Around age seven, children develop a readiness for more formal learning. As they gain aptitude for sequential and logical thought, their most vital asset remains the ability to be fully at home in the pictorial world of imagination. Relationships are central too. Our students in grades one through eight experiences — rather than being told about — confidence, conflicts and their resolution, and respect for the world and all its creatures within an enduring relationship with their classmates and teacher.
High School
Truth, Determination, and Judgment
Around age 14, the child’s intellect wakes up, as do abilities to think abstractly. These qualities manifest as a search for truth, a valuable idealism, and a vulnerable sensitivity. Adolescents thrive when they have worthy moral qualities to emulate and an expanded overview of the world where they will create their future. Through years of daily artistic expression and an academically challenging curriculum, Waldorf education culminates in the high school grades with a conscious awakening of all the human capacities.