PrintThe Edinburgh Rudolf Steiner School was founded over 65 years ago in 1939 by Dr Pelham Moffat. It is a comprehensive co-educational school for students from Kindergarten age to University entrance. The education offered at the Edinburgh Rudolf Steiner School strives to engage and nourish each child's innate curiosity and love of learning. It offers a balance of academic, artistic and practical activities. The central aim of the education is to equip young people emotionally, spiritually and intellectually, not only to meet the future but to play a part in shaping it.
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School that should be a lesson to us all ONE of the great attractions of living and raising a family in Edinburgh has to be its schools. Sure, the beautiful architecture oozes history while the city's cultural wealth, its verdant parks and quiet villages, the quaint shops and cobbled streets, its charming pubs and vibrant restaurants - I could go on - all add to an attractive recipe rich in character and romance. Rudolf Steiner Schools |
Revenge of Sir Humphrey ! I ONCE asked an educationalist - a professional researcher - what proportion of the recommendations he had been commissioned to make to government had actually been adopted. And his answer: "Well, none of them, actually. In fact, I can't think of any significant recommendations emerging from research ever adopted by government." From this, I concluded, it's all about politics, not about education. More.. |
STEINER DEBATE IN PARLIAMENT On Wednesday (14th December) at 5pm Mike Pringle MSP will be leading a private members debate in the Scottish Parliament on the subject of funding Steiner Schools in Scotland. There is no voting in this kind of debate, but it will be a very important chance to raise the issue and attempt to gather support. Official Report of the Debate |
| Despite events in England still no progress on State Funding in Scotland. History of discussions. | Great exam results | |
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The Edinburgh Rudolf Steiner School has always allowed its teacher
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Svetlana Broz, cardiologist and author of "Good People in an Evil Time, Portraits of Complicity and Resistance in the Bosnian War" and granddaughter of former Yugoslav head of state, Marshal Tito will take part in a number of events in and around the School in March, 2006. More later | |
| At our school we have had the same concerns as Jamie Oliver about the food our children eat. We feel from long years of experience that having the right diet not only improves educational performance but also behaviour. |
To find out more about these issues and others please contact Andrew Farquharson on 0131 337 3410.
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