by Bianca Huizinga | Aug 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
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...
by Nicci | Jul 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
Our June edition of The Sprig reflects on an exciting Term 2 at The Waldorf School at Rosemary Hill. Highlights include the Autumn Harvest Festival, the magical Winter Fire Festival, sporting achievements across soccer, cycling and netball, and the everyday learning...
by Bianca Huizinga | Jul 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
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...
by Bianca Huizinga | Jul 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
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...
by Bianca Huizinga | Jun 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
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...
by Bianca Huizinga | Jun 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
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...
