Kimberton Waldorf School
The Art of Education
Kimberton Waldorf School offers a developmentally-appropriate, experiential approach to education. We integrate the arts and academics for children from preschool through twelfth grade, seeking to inspire a lifelong love of learning in all students and to enable each to fully develop his or her unique capacities.
The Curriculum
Our integrated approach to education gives richness to the curriculum and develops analytical thinkers with creative, imaginative minds capable of producing prolific, life-changing ideas. As an independent private school, we feel privileged to be able to create a curriculum based on the needs of a developing child. This allows us to intentionally and carefully align creative developmental activities with emerging cognitive, emotional, and physical stages of growth.
College Preparedness
Kimberton Waldorf graduates are accepted into a wide range of colleges and universities. We have alumni who are Rhodes Scholars, Truman Scholars, and Fulbright Fellows, among many other distinctions. Most recently, our seniors were offered nearly $700,000 in scholarships and awards.
Head, Heart, and Hands
Waldorf Education is dedicated to educating the whole child: head, heart, and hands. We do this through a well-balanced curriculum of academics, arts, and practical experiences with the goal of engaging the students’ intellectually, emotionally, and physically. Our students become as comfortable solving a quadratic equation or writing a research paper as they do playing a musical instrument in an orchestra, performing in a play, growing food in our organic garden, or making a beautiful and useful object in woodworking class. They develop confidence in themselves as thinkers and creative doers because they have had an education that asks them to make, to create, to design, to collaborate, and to think for themselves.
Our Community
We believe that it takes a community to educate a child.
We believe that a school community, inclusive of students, parents, faculty, staff and alumni is essential for a healthy school. They are in many ways co-creators of our education. We value a diverse school community in which social interactions are guided by kindness and respect.
Teacher & Child Relationship
Teachers are the main source of strength in Waldorf schools. With a heavy focus on the importance of hands-on experience for their students, rather than standardized testing, Waldorf teachers help their students to explore curricula through diverse activities, with plenty of room to customize lesson plans. The fluidity of this approach provides extensive engagement that leads to lifelong connections with the material taught, the teachers involved and the bigger questions at the heart of each subject.
The Art of Education
Kimberton Waldorf School offers a developmentally-appropriate, experiential approach to education. We integrate the arts and academics for children from preschool through twelfth grade, seeking to inspire a lifelong love of learning in all students and to enable each to fully develop his or her unique capacities.
