About Us

Mol an Óige Steiner National School has been providing quality education since since September 2005. It is our mission to to educate children using the Steiner Waldorf method by covering Primary School Curriculum in a creative yet practical way.

Steiner Waldorf Education

Steiner Waldorf Education stresses a qualitative approach, based on the understanding that the child thinks, feels and acts on the basis of their developing capacities. In order to educate the whole child we must provide a balanced approach that addresses the active and emotional aspects of the child as well as the cognitive. Indeed it is increasingly recognised that cognitive abilities, i.e. the ability to think, are supported by a broadly based education.

The task of the teacher is to integrate the practical, artistic and academic subject matters and to present them in a way that meets the developing needs of the child. Each school day has a strong rhythm. Singing and movement begin the Main Lesson, taught by their class teacher, which lasts approximately two hours and includes the full range of artistic and academic activities. This lesson is designed to make best use of the early part of the day when children are most receptive.

One theme will be studied in the Main Lesson for 4 weeks or so to enable the class to penetrate the subject matter deeply. The aim is to provide an experience for the child that will be meaningful and not consist only of information. Textbooks are used sparingly and instead it is the teachers' task to bring the subject matter to life in an artistic and imaginative way.

Children make their own textbooks which record and express their understanding of the subject matter. These they take great pride in. As the children move through the school with their class teacher, so their work develops and takes on an increasingly academic character while retaining its artistic content.

We shouldn’t ask: what does a person need to know or be able to do in order to fit into the existing social order? Instead we should ask: what lives in each human being and what can be developed in him or her?

    - Rudolf Steiner