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Steiner Schools Australia refers to the independent, private body of kindergarten, primary and secondary schools based on the Waldorf education system across Australia. . Steiner Education operates in over 50 locations across the various states and territories in Australia, providing educational playgroups, kindergartens, primary schools and comprehensive K-12 school progr
The two main independent schools in Newcastle are Newcastle Grammar School and St Philip's Christian College, both coeducational K–12 schools. [citation needed] The local area is also home to two Steiner schools: the Newcastle Waldorf School at Glendale in Lake Macquarie, and the Linuwel Steiner School in East Maitland. [citation needed]
Plus, how this type of education differs from regular and Montessori schools.
1941 - Kimberton Waldorf School is founded in Pennsylvania. 1942 - High Mowing Waldorf School, a boarding high school in Wilton, New Hampshire opens. 1947 - The Waldorf School of Garden City is created as part of Adelphi University. Three more Waldorf schools were founded in the 1950s, and five in the 1960s.
The first Waldorf school opened in 1919 in Stuttgart, Germany. [1] A century later, it has become the largest independent school movement in the world, [2] with more than 1,200 independent schools and nearly 2,000 kindergartens in 75 countries, [3] as well as more than 500 centers for special education in more than 40 countries. [4]
A 2003 evaluation by education scholars David Jelinek and Li-Ling Sun compared a group of American Waldorf school students to American public school students on three different test variables. [9] Two tests measured verbal and non-verbal logical reasoning and the third was an international TIMMS test.
Merger with De La Salle High School, St Patrick's Grammar School and St Mary's High School ... Newcastle: County Down: Grant Maintained Integrated: Secondary: 426-0281
Walbottle Academy's new building opened in 2008 after being rebuilt as part of the governments Phase 1 PFI Newcastle Building Schools for the Future Programme. It opened alongside six other schools which were also rebuilt in the Phase 1 part of the programme. Four other schools later opened in 2011 as part of Phase 2 of the programme.