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The Alice Springs Steiner School offers a broad but solidly integrated curriculum inter-weaving academic subjects with art, craft, music, storytelling, and drama.

A central pillar of Steiner/Waldorf education is to enable the teacher to intimately comprehend and act upon the needs of each child and to nurture the development of a real spirit of sharing and community within the class. In a loving environment and with the encouragement of teachers and class mates children are developing their strengths and working towards improving areas of difficulties.

Steiner/Waldorf education works towards mastery of oral communication as an integral part of learning; there is emphasis on listening, retelling, acting and drawing stories. This enhances imagination and comprehension of language. Students are taught to work with ideas, to communicate ideas and bring ideas to life through drawing and illustration.

A child is part of the world, connected with the past and the future, with nature and all living things. The child is more likely to experience this sense of belonging if fragmentation in education is avoided. Lessons are presented that contain a historical thread and allow time for a depth of experience.

The curriculum working from the whole to the part helps to avoid this fragmentation and when special lessons in sport, language and arts occur they are usually linked across the curriculum to provide a balanced educational approach. Similarly, the seasonal year finds rich expression within the school. The arts and festivals are important and link the child to the environment, the rhythms of life and the community.