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About Us The School is part of a worldwide network of over 875 schools, 27 of which are located in the United Kingdom and lreland. It caters for children aged between 3 and 16 – from Kindergarten to Class Ten. The school began in 1980 with a small Kindergarten of six children in the front room of a parent’s house. In 1983 the founding group of parents and teachers acquired the former village school in Much Dewchurch – a fine Victorian building overlooking quiet meadows and wooded hills. As the school grew in size and popularity, the adjoining Elizabethan barn was purchased and converted into classrooms. Church Farm, adjacent to the barn, was purchased in the Summer of 2000, and has been converted into two Kindergartens and a Nursery, a pottery and handwork room, with staff and administration rooms upstairs. Read more...

Steiner Waldorf Schools In an ever-changing world, individuals are called upon to respond with initiative, flexibility and responsibility. Read more...   The Origins Of Waldorf Education Rudolf Steiner, an Austrian philosopher and scientist, was approached in 1919 to establish a school and a system of learning for the children of the Waldorf factory in Stuttgart, Germany. Read more...   Eurythmy This form of movement arose from the need, experienced in the first Waldorf School, for a lesson that would help the children to integrate everything they were learning in other lessons, and so assist in their development as whole beings of body, mind and soul. Read more...   Games In the younger classes games are always introduced with a story or creative situation so that the physical activity has an imaginative focus. Read more...   Learning Support Learning Support is available to those pupils who are experiencing their learning at a different pace and in a different way. Read more...   Religion The school is non-denominational, and while the Christian ethic is central in all lessons, any form of sectarian or dogmatic tendency is rejected. Read more...   Languages From Class I, the children start to learn French and German through songs, poems, and games. Read more...   Handwork Handwork is an important part of the curriculum for boys and girls in every class. Read more...   Music The importance of music in the school is established in the earliest years: the Nursery and Kindergartens resound with singing and each child from Class One learns the recorder. Read more...   Life After School Through the structured, child-centred curriculum, students leaving Class Ten at the age of 16 will have received an uncompromised Waldorf Education, as well as qualifications in GCSEs and OCN. Read more...   Organisation & Parental Involvement The community of parents and teachers co-operates to manage the school in its entirety. Read more...   Finance The school is a registered charity and, apart from funding for 3 and 4 year-olds, receives no assistance from the State. Read more...   Admission Parents who are considering sending their children to the school are most welcome to come for an informal visit during school hours: please telephone first. Read more...   Location Hereford Waldorf School is on the edge of the village of Much Dewchurch, six miles south of the city of Hereford, on the B4348. Read more...