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Sophia Mundi Inner-City Steiner school was founded in 1985 on
the initiative of a group of parents seeking a Steiner (or Waldorf)
education for their children. In has grown to be a school of 300
students from playgroups for mothers and infants, a kindergarten,
and Prep through to Class 12.
The school is currently on the cusp of a new growth period. Because
of the growing number of students wanting to enrol in the school
we are looking at double streaming to accomodate them rather than
turn them away.
We are relocating the primary school to a new site at the Abbotsford
Convent, prime real estate overlooking the Yarra River and the Collingwood
Childrens Farm. We are part of the Abbotsford Convent Coalition,
a community group which is undertaking the creation of an arts,
cultural and education precinct on the site of the former Abbotsford
Convent on the banks of the Yarra. It is an exciting prospect for
our school to be situated in a precinct with artists, galleries,
dance studios, theatres and workshops.
For early childhood we have purchased a residential property
which is being developed to provide a permanent site for the Kindergarten,
Playgroups and Childcare inbetween the Convent and the current school
site.
The secondary school will continue to operate and breathe into
the spaces made available on the Nicholson Street site.
These are huge steps and big changes, if you have ever thought
of giving money to the school, now is the time that it would be
most useful.
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