Discover Waldorf: Grade School Open House

120 Waldorf School Road,Charlottesville VA 22901

15 May, 2021

Description

Tour the campus and classrooms at Charlottesville Waldorf School and learn about our mixed-age elementary and middle school, grades 1- 8. Come learn more about our Grade School Program! Tour the classrooms and our beautiful, 10+ acre campus, and learn about how the Waldorf curriculum provides a multi-cultural, developmentally accurate, experience-based education for the whole child - respecting and nurturing the innate abilities of each child. Education begins with nurturing a child's desire to learn. At the Charlottesville Waldorf School, rigorous academics are balanced and enhanced through cultivating genuine appreciation for the natural world and expansive experience in the arts. From first through eighth grade, students are immersed in their subjects, discovering not only the answers but how to ask the questions. Learning goes beyond the fundamentals, connecting the classroom experience to the world at large. Learning to work together. Building strong social skills is a foundational element of the Waldorf school. Class sizes are small and stay with the same teachers for multiple years. Our mixed-age classrooms begin in the kindergartens and continue through combined grades in elementary and middle school, allowing a range of experience and aptitude within each class and encouraging bonds of friendship across age levels. Part of a worldwide movement for holistic education. For over 100 years, the Waldorf curriculum has inspired students worldwide to cultivate their intellectual, emotional, physical, and spiritual capacities to be individuals certain of their paths and to be of service to the world. There are currently over 170 accredited Waldorf schools in North America and over 1000 throughout the world (plus many more kindergarten and early childhood programs). CWS has engaged students with this comprehensive form of education since 1982.