The Santa Shoebox Project is a non-profit organization that collects Christmas gifts for the socially disadvantaged children throughout South Africa, by way of a social and community network of families, friends, schools and churches. This project is instrumental in involving people from all walks of life, especially children together with their parents, in giving to [...]
It was an unusually warm winters evening last night - and our students had a wonderful time celebrating our St Johns Festival 2019! There was much excitement and joy as we watched the children walk along the path with their lanterns shining brightly in the dark winters night. Their songs filled the air and brought [...]
The festival of Whitsun, which is 50 days after Easter, is, in part the festival of brotherly and sisterly community, when we strive to come together with a new and developing understanding of each other. Whitsun is each person finding the balance between their own individual freedom and the well-being and furtherance of the community, [...]
Last Friday 10th May Classes 9 and 10 traveled to Hout Bay to do a beach clean-up. The two classes were incredibly enthusiastic and really enjoyed their time at the beach while also doing a wonderful thing for the environment. We were inspired by Greta Thunberg who has used direct action to protest climate change [...]
Wishing all the Mothers in our community a special and lovely Mothers Day this Sunday. We appreciate you. Here are two photos of our Kindergarten creating some beautiful Mothers Day craft. Beautiful work Kindergarten!
This week Tuesday was a key moment in the Waldorf Education movement. On April 23rd, 1919 Emil Molt asked Rudolf Steiner for his help and guidance to start a school for his workers children. It was on April 23, 1919, after a lecture Steiner gave to the factory workers on the 3-fold social order that [...]
Our school celebrated the Easter Festival today. There has been a lot of excited preparation for today...from creating clay eggs, to origami bees and butterfly's, to little bees made out of beeswax and delicious loaves of plaited bread. It is a very special time in our year where we look at what does Easter mean? [...]
We warmly welcome all prospective preschool parents to our 2019 Open Day. Come in and meet us, have a hot cuppa and a nibble while you have a first hand experience of what it's like to be in a Waldorf Kindergarten and Playgroup environment. 10am – 10:30am Free play time in Playgroup 10:30am – [...]
Today we celebrated Founders Day which is an annual celebration of Rudolf Steiner's birthday. We decided to use this day as a wonderful opportunity to Beautify Our School. The children brought water wise cuttings from their gardens, seedlings and ready hands to do the planting. There was much watering, lots of joy and of course [...]
We will share a high school experience with prospective Class 7 students who wish to come and see what high school at SWS will be like. This will be on Thursday 7th March from 10:30am to 12:30pm. Any Class 7 students from our wider community are welcome. The second part of our Open Day will [...]