The Steiner Curriculum

The Steiner curriculum is deeply tied to the child's natural developmental stages. Oral language sits at the heart of our pedagogy, brought to life daily through story telling, singing, recitation, and drama. To foster deep stability and strong relationships, children ideally remain with the same class teacher from Class 1 through to Class 6, allowing the teacher to intimately understand and support each child's individual learning journey.

Structure of the Learning Day

The learning program follows a unique, rhythmically structured format designed to optimise engagement, focus and retention. The school day is mindfully divided into three distinct parts:

• Main Lesson: This is an enriched, multidisciplinary unit of work where all new academic content is introduced. Main Lesson subjects (including Science, English, Social Studies, Mathematics, and Art) are delivered through an overarching narrative theme. Each subject runs in a dedicated three-week block, allowing the teacher and students ample time to investigate and deeply immerse themselves in the material. These themes evolve naturally with the children's age, beginning with fairy tales in the early years and progressing to mythology, history, and formal sciences.
• Practice Sessions: Following Main Lessons concepts are reintroduced in focused sessions. This cyclical approach gives students the opportunity to practice, strengthen, and fully integrate their understanding. These sessions are interspersed with our language, literacy, and social skills programs.
• Specialist Lessons: A rich variety of experiential, stream-specific subjects that complement the core academic work.

Specialist Subjects 

In addition to the whole school specialist program the following subjects are stream specific.

Eurythmy

Meaning 'beautiful movement', Eurythmy translates stories, poetry and music into physical expression and geometric forms. It guides children to move harmoniously as a group, cultivating spatial awareness, coordination and deep listening skills. By experiencing themselves like an orchestra in motion, children build a healthy social sense, empathy and explore what they can create together.

Creative and Performing Arts

Rather than treating the arts as an isolated subject, artistic expression is fully interwoven into our daily routines, morning circles, and Main Lessons. Painting, drawing, music and drama deepen the academic experience. Annual drama performances bring the curriculum to life for students and parents alike, moving from choral speaking in the early years to individual roles in the upper primary years.

Craft

Craft is an important part of the curriculum, offered with careful consideration of the child's developmental stage and their capacity to think, feel and do. Students create beautiful, purposeful items from natural materials, building skills in knitting, sewing, crochet and weaving. These practical activities serve as a creative medium through which academic concepts can be experienced and expressed.

Woodwork

Woodwork begins in Class 4. Working with hand tools and timber allows students to engage in active learning, spatial problem-solving and the creation of robust, useful items, reinforcing the vital connection between physical work and cognitive focus.

Strings Music Program

Music is central to the cognitive process and dramatically enhances academic learning. From Class 3 through to Class 6, every student in the Steiner stream learns a stringed instrument (violin or cello) and participates in the weekly class orchestra, learning to read notation, play by ear, and collaborate closely with their peers.

Gardening and Nature

Practical, hands-on engagement with the natural environment teaches children to respect the rhythms of the earth. Students connect deeply with the changing seasons while developing practical life skills in the garden.

Community Connections

Celebrating the rhythms of the year with vibrant seasonal festivals and markets, we foster strong, supportive connections between home and school life.

For further information please visit Steiner Education Australia.