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If you wish to build a ship with others,
Do not begin by gathering timber with them;
Rather awaken in them
Longing for the sea.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
| Area | Comments / Information | Contact details | Date received |
| Albury / Wodonga | I have a daughter who is completing class 1 through home schooling and a son who is due to start school in 2013. We are looking to move to the border around albury wodonga area and am seeking like minded people to start a Steiner school in this region or maybe there is already a movement to get something started. I would like to hear other people in this region with similar thoughts. Thanks Louise | Louise Jenkins [sabbidog2@me.com] | 22nd September 2012 |
| Coonabarabran |
Hi, i live in Coonabarabran (north-west
NSW). I am interested in Steiner education and in establishing a
school. I have a 2yo, 4yo and 9yo. Even a home school support group
would b a good start!
Melinda
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serendipity@harboursat.com.au | 19th January 2010 |
| Dubbo |
l would like to 2nd an interest in a Steiner school for the
Dubbo area. We are moving to Narromine & will home school
using the Steiner curriculum & would like to join a home
school group with the same ideals.
|
oty@tpg.com.au | 10th July 2012 |
| Dubbo |
I would like to register my interest and longing for a
Steiner School for Dubbo NSW to your list. Cheers, Candice |
calocke@bigpond.net.au | 10th March 2011 |
| Dungog |
I am interested in co-creating a Steiner playgroup, club or other
gathering for families interested in these principles.
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Contact: HelenRubeli@gmail.com | 24th August 2011 |
| Eurobodalla |
Eurobodalla Steiner Education Ass Inc Are a strong community group striving to create Steiner Inspired experiences for Children and their families. We currently run weekly playgroup sessions, craft circle, a community garden plot, seasonal festivals, workshops and courses. An opportunity to lease a beautiful day care centre in a bush setting just out side of Moruya has arisen. We are working towards opening a Steiner Long Day Care Centre for children ages 2-6 years. We are seeking anyone interested in being a part of our project or looking for care and nurturing of their little person/people. If you are interested we would love to hear from you. |
Eurosteiner@live.com.au or Janine (02) 4474 3440 |
24th January 2010 |
| Mudgee | Hi, We are a group of parents who are interested in starting a Steiner Pre-school in Mudgee. Please email me if anyone has any helpful info on how we might go about it or would like to be part of this amazing new venture... | joolzied@gmail.com | 1st November 2011 |
| Southern Highlands |
We are based in the Southern Highlands of NSW,
and are currently under process of registering a new Steiner school
with the Board of Studies.
Our Kindergarten, aiming to start in 2013,
will be called Aurora Rose.
Currently we are listed with the Board of
Studies on our working application as Southern Highlands Rudolf
Steiner School.
We also run early childhood programs, called
'Harmony Playcircle' and 'Playtime at Harmony'.
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Joanna Panagiotopoulos
on behalf of SHASE
Southern Highlands Association for Steiner
Education
(02) 4872 3487
(02) 4872 4022
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10th July 2012 |
| Sutherland Shire |
Hi there,
I am hoping to
get a list of interested parents who would like to join a
Steiner Playgroup to be held in the Sutherland Shire.
Please email me
to be added to the list and I will contact you with details.
It would be
envisaged that the group would be held from 10am - 12pm on a
weekday TBA.
We would follow a
rhythm that will include free play, bread baking and circle time
with nature and season based songs/poems/stories.
I would hope to
celebrate festivals and aim to celebrate harvest festival with
the whole family on a Saturday in May.
|
sutherlandsteinergroup@y7mail.com | 21st January 2011 |
| Wagga Wagga |
Hi, My name is Sabrina Belfiore , I live in
Wagga Wagga and I keen to start a play group in this town. |
1st November 2011 | |
| Wagga Wagga | Please can I be included on your website as wanting to start a playgroup. Many thanks, Maria | Maria Solecki [mariasolecki@googlemail.com] | 22nd December 2010 |
| Yamba Hinterland (Ashby) | We have a Steiner inspired playgroup in the Yamba hinterland at Ashby, now 1 year old. Families from various towns of the lower Clarence are attending and newcomers are welcome. I am looking around at schooling options for my 3 and 0 year old, there are no Steiner or other alternative schools in this area and I am interested to hear from anyone who would like to discuss possibilities for getting something started, as well as any Steiner teachers looking for a seachange to a friendly town on a beautiful part of Australia's coast. If there is enough interest anything is possible! Cheers, Holly | wompee@yahoo.com | 18th March 2011 |
| Yass | Hi, I live in Yass and would be interested to open or join a new playgroup in Yass or even Canberra. If anyone is interested in helping me please contact me | moc_ro@hotmail.com | 19th April 2010 |
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| Airlie Beach |
I am a 'retired' Steiner teacher soon
to be living in Airlie Beach and keen to help start a Steiner
playgroup in the area. Looking for families to join me in this
venture.
|
Please email brendahawke@gmail.com | 15th June 2010 | |
| Arundel (northern end of Gold Coast) |
I am currently looking for a kindergarten or child care area in
Arundel which has a good educational philosophy and
unfortunately find a lack thereof. If anyone is planning to
open up a Steiner School here I would be very much interested in
involving myself. I used to work in a bilingual integrative
kindergarten in Germany and have been looking for a school which
has a similar education ethic to what I am used to. I would
love to see the Steiner approach to be widely available at the
Northern end of the Gold Coast.
Best regards
Inez Chai
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inezyda@yahoo.com | 24th January 2011 | |
| Atherton Tablelands | I would like to know if there are any Steiner home schooling parents on The Athereton Table Lands. I will be moving to a property near Tarzali with two 4 and 6 year old girls. The eldest was going to the Steiner School in Kuranda. |
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24th January 2010 | |
| Beachmere / Moreton Bay |
New School Developments in Beachmere
Queensland 4510
Playgroup Starts Next week! During the first seven years children are physically forming and live very much in their imagination. This great capacity to enter into imaginative pictures and stories is a good place to begin the process of learning. Free, creative play is considered the best preparation for self-realising adult life. The teacher endeavours to create an environment that gives children time to play and encourages them to exercise their imagination and learn to conjure up ideas from within themselves. Simple homely tasks and artistic activities to both do and see are balanced with storytelling, singing games and generous play times. A rich supply of natural materials provides scope for imagination in play, which refined toys often deny. Activities offered for the four to six year olds are based on the house and garden. These include sweeping, gardening, cooking, building cubbies, looking after animals, singing, listening to stories, helping to prepare the meal table, cutting fruit, painting, clay modelling and drawing. Children learn to enjoy building, using the natural materials in the room to make their own constructions and patterns. Practical experience helps the child develop confidence and capabilities. Steiner education seeks to nurture the senses through water-colour painting and singing, beeswax and clay modelling. The teacher works consistently to provide rhythm and structure to the day, week, year and whole curriculum, to harmonise with the child’s natural rhythms. At this age, children are discovering how to relate socially with a peer group and take part in fundamental life tasks. Through meeting and playing creatively together, children learn vital interpersonal skills. The teacher plays an important role in enabling relationships between children to strengthen through play. Young children develop primarily in their doing, learning through imitation and physical activity. The role of the teacher is to provide a model for the children and a secure space in which to discover the world. They are not yet ready for more formal classes. Thus, the teacher reserves the formal teaching of numbers and letters for the child’s next developmental stage, signalled physically by the change of teeth, at about the age of seven. |
2nd October 2011 | ||
| Brisbane - Beenleigh | Hi my name is Rachel, I live in the Beenleigh area of Brisbane. I am interested in establishing a Steiner inspired playgroup in the area. I would love to hear from anybody interested in helping me in starting one or attending one in the area. thanks | Email: rbound@hotmail.com | 15th August 2010 | |
| Bundaberg |
We have been meeting fortnightly
for home-based Steiner playgroups around the Bundaberg region.
We are also thinking of organising a Steiner playgroup/home
school co-op in the Bundaberg region.
We would like to extend an invitation to any other families or individuals who may also be interested in our playgroup or in helping us create a Steiner homeschooling co-op.
Please contact Michelle Martin - if you are interested.
Thankyou!
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E-mail: mambelles@yahoo.com or Phone: 0438 347 679 | 20th Dec 2010 | |
| Burleigh |
Hello, I would very much love to see a Steiner school set up in the beautiful Tallebudgera or Currumbin Valley area of the Gold Coast. I have 3 children ranging from 1yr to 9yrs of age and believe they would benefit tremendously from a Steiner education. If there is anyone interested in starting a social group, or that is aware of a new school starting in the southern gold coast area (near Burleigh), I would very much like to hear from you. I believe the current generation of children need to be treated with great sensitivity and understanding and that they hold great possibilities if guided the right way. Look forward to hearing from you. Deb |
Deb@collisfamily.com.au | 10th March 2011 | |
| Fernvale | My name is Sondra Bowman and I live in Fernvale Qld. I would be exceptionally happy if a Steiner school were to open in my region. I regularly look to see if a Steiner school is opening close to me so I can send my 3 year old, but unfortunately to date one is not available. | sondrabowman@bigpond.com | 22nd December 2010 | |
| Gladstone - Calliope |
I wish to start up a Steiner kindergarten and school in Calliope ( just outside Gladstone) Anyone interested in joining me contact Hailey @ widebaysteiner@yahoo.com.au or phone 0421901218 Regards Hailey Whiteway |
22nd November 2011 | ||
| Gold Coast |
Little Heart Tree Steiner Group began in 2009
initially as a holiday program and has evolved into a continuing early
learning program with a Steiner approach for children aged 4 to 7. The group provides a holistic, caring and nurturing environment for children to learn and play through Steiner based activities that cater to the developmental, emotional and spiritual needs of this age group. |
20th February 2010 | ||
| Logan / Mt Cotton area | I live in the Logan / Mount Cotton area and would love to start a Steiner School. It is a big task and would like other who would also be interested in having (and helping start) a Steiner School in the area to contact me on 0414 988 445 or kristypillinger@optusnet.com.au | 20th December 2010 | ||
| Toowoomba |
Hello there,
I live 45kms north of Toowoomba and wish more than anything that
we could have a Steiner School in the area. My sons are 4 and 1
and having been schooled at a Steiner School my whole life, I'm
finding it very difficult to imagine sending them anywhere else.
My eldest and I went to a Steiner playgroup for a year and I
would feel quite confident setting up a Steiner Playgroup. The
idea of a school is a little more daunting, yet I am keen to
speak to more interested parties in the area. I also know a few
other parents who are interested.
It would be great to get something going around these beautiful
parts.
Regards,
Jo
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jo.petrou@yahoo.com | 12th July 2010 | |
| Townsville |
Just
emailing our interest in having a Steiner primary and high school in
Townsville or would be interested in Airlie Beach area also.. |
mnhamilton@bigpond.com | 19th April 2010 |
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| North west and Tasmania state-wide |
We are home schooling on our biodynamic property in the
north west of Tasmania. We would love to find others to form a coop of
home schoolers, and possibly playgroup if there are enough committed
people here. Our children are 6 and 8 years, and we are using a range of
resources for creative Steiner education. We are also working with others to form a state-wide network of home schoolers, to offer each other support, share resources and come together as groups in our areas for activities we usually can't access in the home, such as eurythmy. We would love to hear of anyone who would like to be added to our contact list. |
Lynette Correy
lynettecorrey@optusnet.com.au 0422 107 347 |
21st April 2011 |
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| Ararat |
We are starting various activities in this area (such as a
Steiner study group and BD gardening group) and would like to
help set up and support a playgroup, parenting group, festival
group and eventually a school as numbers increase.
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Please contact Linda at linden.lee2020@yahoo.com | 23rd September 2012 |
| Balwyn | There is a small group of parents whose children currently attend Balwyn Steiner Playgroup in Melbourne's inner eastern suburbs who are just beginning a journey to establish a Steiner Kindergarten and ultimately a school in the Balwyn area. If you live in the area and are an interested parent or educator please contact Katie | katiekburke@gmail.com | 20th December 2010 |
| Bairnsdale |
Plans are well underway to start a Steiner School in Bairnsdale in 2013 with a Prep and Class One and applications for a place are now being taken. See our blog for all the details: http://wildcherrysteiner.blogspot.com.au/ |
katiekburke@gmail.com | 10th July 2012 |
| Berwick / Druin | Hi, I have an almost one year old daughter and whilst we currently live in Bentleigh, vic. we are looking to move in the near future to either Berwick or Drouin to be closer to family and have more space...would love it if there was a Steiner option in/around these areas...if there is anyone from around there who feels the same way we would love to work together with you to make this happen!!!! | Jess Cohen 0416 833 512 addiction53@hotmail.com |
12th Dec 2012 |
| Macedon ranges (Gisborne, Macedon, or Woodend area), | I have a 9 month old son and would love to have a Steiner school in Victoria in 5 years time. I am sure there would be many like minded parents in this area. If you are interested in forming a working group to develop this school please contact | Carolyn carolyn_luke14@yahoo.com.au | 10th July 2012 |
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Mornington Peninsular (outer south east Melbourne) |
MORNINGTON PENINSULA, Victoria
Wurru-Wurru Inc. has been offering Steiner Early
Childhood programmes on the Mornington Peninsula since 1998.
Our
current programmes include:
We
are now working towards the establishment of an independent
Steiner School.
We
are currently seeking a suitable property in the Red Hill area,
and our first group of Prep children will commence in 2012.
If
you can help with time or resources please contact us via info@wurruwurru.com
For
more information about our early childhood programmes or
to enrol your child please email
enrolments@wurruwurru.com
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For more about our anthroposophical education programmes please email education@wurruwurru.com | 12th July 2010 |
| Point Cook |
I am a fully qualified Art and Craft teacher living in
Point Cook. I have a grand vision to work in a collaborative group of like minded individuals to develop a Steiner inspired initiative. I’m looking to connect with very driven and hardworking individuals who are willing to support the initiative in any way they can… no experience required just a can do attitude! Starting with a play group "Fairy wrens playgroup" (check us out on face book) then developing into a kindergarten by 2012. Then …by taking baby steps we can work on a primary school in the lush countryside of Point Cook , Werribee South, Lara or further then the skies the limit!! I have friends in local government whom are very interested to see what kind of support this Kind of alternative education will receive and they are prepared to help in any way that they are able to. Join me on this magical adventure and together we can create a utopia right here in the west for our children. May peace and serenity be with you now and forever….. |
Register your interest by contacting me at daltadesign@gmail.com | 21st January 2011 |
| Sandringham |
We are currently gathering student numbers for a Steiner stream at
Sandringham Secondary Collage 7-10 Highett campus in Melbourne.
Outcome looks hopeful.
Please contact me if you need more info or have any questions
Thank you
Solreta Marmion
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0429 134 676 | 19th April 2012 |
| Warrnambool | Hi my name is Lauren and I will soon be moving to the Noorat / Terang area and am wondering if there are any Steiner / natural parenting playgroups or mums in the area or in Warrnambool or Colac areas? I have a beautiful 11 month old boy and would love to meet other parents with similar values and beliefs. Thanks | Please email me on lozzie59@hotmail.com | 20th February 2010 |
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| Mandurah |
Hi there, |
jodib.s@bigpond.com |
17th May 2010 |
| Mandurah / Rockingham |
Melaleuca
Steiner Playgroup
This group started out as a Steiner Parents Group studying “You are Your Child’s First Teacher” by Rahima Baldwin Dancy and has quickly grown into the Melaleuca Steiner Playgroup. We are a very committed group, working towards establishing a New Steiner School in the Rockingham, Baldivis, Mandurah area of WA. At present we are a home based Family Playgroup for children 0-5 yo and we aim to establish satellite Steiner Playgroups throughout the Rockingham, Baldivis, Mandurah area as we grow. We have one full playgroup of about 12 families with 1 to 3 y/olds plus older siblings interested in primary and are growing rapidly. We need to demonstrate sufficient interest in the New School Initiative to support our application to establish a non-government school. Any interest is welcome as we spread the word about our New School. We plan to open in 2013 with K4,K5,K6 and a Class 1. |
10th June 2011 |
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| Indonesia (Ubud) | Currently I (Steiner teacher) am starting up a
homeschooling group in North from Ubud, Bali, Indonesia. Age groups are children born in 1998/99; 2001/02 and 2004. In future we might be able to expand to more age groups and even to high school. Children are taught mainly by teacher/teacher assistant in homely environment. Beautiful lush tropical quiet environment. Climate is not too hot though (1000 m altitude). Interested families can be guided with renting accommodation near the "school". Violin teacher available. Organic gardening; horse riding; raw food; trekking. |
Please contact me on my e-mail address if interested. Carine Heuvel: carineheuvel@gmail.com |
29th June 2009 |
Last updated on 14 December, 2012
