Best Waldorf School Santa Clara Near Me

4worldlovers: Santa Cruz Waldorf School has been offering a rich, nurturing and joyful school life for its students for over three generations.

Redwood Summer Camp at SCWS provides children with an unforgettable summer experience.

The Waldorf approach offers a developmentally appropriate, experiential, and academically rigorous education. Waldorf schools are designed to develop confident human beings who have the curiosity, discipline, and tenacity to meet the ever-changing challenges of our world. Teachers in Waldorf schools are dedicated to generating an inner enthusiasm for learning within every child. The result is children who are confident, who understand the benefits of cooperation, and who can envision and passionately take creative ideas through fruition.

“You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.”

Our Early Childhood program caters for children from walking to 7 years old and is designed to help a child grow in a healthy way. The 3 pillars of our program are focused around healthy development of the body, the imagination and social behavior.

Pre-literacy and numeracy skills are intrinsic/encapsulated/ continually being built upon with activities that promote healthy brain development, such as handwork, gardening, movement, storytelling, puppetry, hand games, art and song.

Our grades program caters to elementary and middle school-aged children. We offer an age-appropriate curriculum, following the development of humankind, that uniquely integrates the arts with academics and has a broad range of subjects designed to meet the interest and learning capabilities of the child at each age. With its breathtaking campus, dedicated faculty and staff, SCWS has a warm and nurturing environment. These aspects make it feel more like family than just another grade school.