STORIES & SNIPPETS
Reconnecting Children with Nature: The Importance of Outdoor Learning
Reconnecting Children with Nature: The Importance of Outdoor Learning In today’s digital world, children are spending less time outdoors than ever before. This growing disconnect from nature has been described by journalist Richard Louv as Nature Deficit Disorder...
Maths with Meaning
Maths with Meaning: How Waldorf Education Builds Mathematical Confidence for Life In many traditional school settings, mathematics is taught through repetition, memorisation, and an early push into abstract problem-solving. But in Waldorf primary schools, the journey...
Moral Imagination
What Are We Filling Our Children With? Exploring Noise, Moral Imagination, and the Inner Life of the Child Noise isn't just loudness. It's not only traffic, television or toys that beep. In today’s world, noise comes in many forms - from endless Netflix episodes to...
What is Form Drawing—and Why Do Waldorf Children Do It?
What is Form Drawing—and Why Do Waldorf Children Do It? In many Waldorf classrooms, you’ll find children quietly drawing graceful lines, mirrored curves, and flowing shapes. This is form drawing, a practice that might seem unfamiliar at first glance, but plays a...
The Sprig Volume 2, Issue 2 June 2025
What Is Integrated Learning—and Why Does It Matter for Every Child?
In an age of compartmentalised knowledge and fast-paced academics, it’s easy to forget how naturally children learn. Real learning doesn’t happen in neat, isolated subject boxes - it happens when the world makes sense, when connections are drawn, and when a child is...
Waldorf Education in Real Life: A Path of Head, Heart and Hands
Waldorf Education in Real Life: A Path of Head, Heart and Hands What is the true value of a Waldorf education? In a time when education is so often measured by numbers - grades, test scores, and rankings, Waldorf Ways, a beautifully made short film from The Waldorf...
A Day in the Life of a Waldorf Classroom: Where Learning Comes Alive
A Day in the Life of a Waldorf Classroom: Where Learning Comes Alive In a world that often rushes childhood and fragments learning into facts and figures, Waldorf education offers something refreshingly different. It offers depth, rhythm, beauty, and meaning. From the...
Connected Letters, Connected Thinking: Why Waldorf Still Teaches Cursive Writing
Connected Letters, Connected Thinking: Why Waldorf Still Teaches Cursive Writing – and How It All Begins in Kindergarten In many modern classrooms, handwriting—particularly cursive writing—is becoming a thing of the past. Left out of curricula like the Common Core, it...









