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We are proud to be offering Steiner education in an inner city
environment. A feeling of community is experienced as one enters
the courtyard at Sophia Mundi. Younger and older children play together,
parents are involved and made welcome. It is sometimes hard to appreciate
the difference in this school; tarseal, concrete, 2 storey, bricks
or concrete blocks form this old Catholic school building, but it
has a new lease of life. Within these walls there is something happening
for the students - in all the classes and in their interactions
together in the life of the school.
At Sophia Mundi we are committed to a human-centred form of education.
To this end we strive
to allow children to fully experience the joys and mysteries
of childhood.
This avoids a premature hastening towards adult consciousness
and experience - taking time to do things well.
to awaken the children’s thinking and imagination.
Students are encouraged to find beauty and wonder in the world.
Creative thinking in the sciences and humanities is enlivened by
an artistic way of working and a focus on observation.
to educate the whole human being through the harmonious working
of not only the head, but also the heart and hand.
The students’ capacity for clear thinking is stimulated, their
life of feelings is broadened and enriched and united with their
sense for doing good in the world.
to educate the child as a being of body, soul and spirit
This is not a religious education, but neither does it espouse
merely materialistic values. Education of the soul and spirit takes
place through the uplifting power of beauty and the imagination,
and out of the content of the curriculum.
to be an education towards freedom.
The aim of the journey of school at Sophia Mundi is the formation
of young adults who can think, judge and act freely and responsibly
through their strength of individuality.
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