At Raheen Wood Steiner National School we undertake to provide a Learning Community and environment which:

REVERENCE

Enables the spiritual insights achieved through working with Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophy to inspire and inform all aspects of our work.
Develops a deep connection with nature and natural rhythms.
Creates the space (inner and outer) that is necessary to experience the essential goodness of the World.
Honours and protects the precious nature of childhood and recognises the gift that children bring to the future of humanity.

LOVE

Nurtures creativity and a sense of beauty.
Enables children and adults to feel understood, accepted, valued and nurtured.
Encourages teachers and parents to respect each other and work in partnership to surround the child with love and security.
Is founded on a true understanding of the developmental needs of the whole child and provides balance between thinking, feeling and willing.
Nurtures and develops the sense of truth, individual morality and responsibility that is the foundation for true freedom.
Upholds the need for the teachers to be free to work out of an inner connection with the children and with the Steiner Waldorf curriculum in order to bring what is needed to meet the developmental needs of the children in their care.
Values learning through experience; which develops the children’s confidence and equips them with the skills that are necessary to fulfil their life’s potential.

Nurtures and develops the sense of truth, individual morality and responsibility that is the foundation for true freedom.
Upholds the need for the teachers to be free to work out of an inner connection with the children and with the Steiner Waldorf curriculum in order to bring what is needed to meet the developmental needs of the children in their care.
Values learning through experience; which develops the children’s confidence and equips them with the skills that are necessary to fulfil their life’s potential.