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Causes: Education, Preschools, Primary & Elementary Schools, Secondary & High Schools
Mission: The school's main objective is to provide a complete waldorf education for children, preschool through twelfth grade. In addition, before-care, after-care and summer day camps are provided.
Programs: General instruction - a contemporary, classical prek-12 education. Early childhood develops social and organizational skills for lifelong learning. Gr 1-8 engages students in discovery through curriculum that seamlessly integrates academics and fine arts with teachers who spend eight full years with their class. Gr 9-12 develop moral, intellectual and aesthetic capacity through focused inquiry in seminar-style classes taught by specialists. The school offers students the opportunity to experience a foreign culture directly through exchange programs with other waldorf schools abroad. Our school values its international population and strives to both educate and learn from our diverse student population, blending cultures educationally, socially, and artistically into our program.
child care and camps - programs offered to provide extended care programs during summer, fall, winter, and spring recess to assist working parents. These programs allow children to play outside, use the gym facilities, participate in reading, art projects and board games.
extra-curricular activities - includes drama, model un, yearbook, and community service, as well as athletic programs and sports clubs. As a member of the michigan hs athletic assoc. , we compete with other class d schools in varsity sports and tournaments. Our high school athletic program has steadily expanded in both the number of activities offered and in the number of students involved. Currently, almost 50% of hs students participate in at least one sport. Lower school offers competitive seasonal sports. The school belongs to the mid-michigan independent athletic assoc. , and is in league with six private and parochial schools. Our sports club is offered to all fifth and sixth grade students and teaches skills in a non-competitive atmosphere.