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Escuela Internacional Waldorf Rudolf Steiner

La Nucia, Spain · Private

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Escuela Internacional Waldorf Rudolf Steiner is a small Waldorf school in La Nucía, on the Costa Blanca, set up as a non-profit association by parents who knew this pedagogy from experience. It takes children from three to twelve: a preschool stage from three to six and a primary from six to twelve. Teaching follows Waldorf practice and is not built as a timetable of subjects: lessons are gathered into "epochs" of three or four weeks in which the class lives with one theme, and art - painting, music, eurythmy, craft - counts as part of the learning rather than decoration. The school sets no examinations: instead of marks it keeps a qualitative record of each child's progress with detailed reports. It explains its age logic in its own words through three seven-year periods: up to seven a child learns by imitation and play, from seven to fourteen through feeling and imagination, and from fourteen through thought and independent judgement. The school calls itself bilingual and requires working Spanish and English at admission, which runs in four steps: a visit, a conversation with the teachers, trial days with a placement assessment, and the admissions committee's decision; mid-year entry is possible if there is a place. Its pedagogical adviser is named as Sandra Chandía, with twenty-two years of Waldorf teaching. The main thing a parent needs to know: the school is not yet accredited by NEASC but only going through recognition, and on the Spanish side it has no certificate of its own - after the age of twelve a child continues at another school.