Hugh Grant Calls for Screen Free ‘Hero Schools’ – Step This Way!

Waldorf schools also actively cultivate a culture of screen-free childhoods, by supporting families to delay children’s personal phone and iPad use, shielding them also from social media until they are sufficiently mature to be discerning and manage it. Fundamental to the Waldorf approach is that children learn to manage the technology in a way that serves but does not dominate or control them.

Hugh Grant also called for more outdoor play. This is central to the Waldorf model which combines hands-on learning, rich storytelling, the arts, games and movement including plenty of outdoor play all integrated into a curriclum alsongside academic knowledge-based learning. Only in severe weather would children be kept inside.

And it works. The Steiner Academy Hereford was recently ranked top in England by the Fairer Schools Index which takes into account the socio-economic background of children. At its last Ofsted inspection the school was also ranked “outstanding” in three areas and is consistently within the top 3 schools in Herefordshire for GCSE results. All but two of our independent schools inspected by Ofsted are ranked “good” and those that teach up to GCSEs perform better than the national average. Many other children from our schools go on to Russell Group and other universities after successfully taking the Level 3 New Zealand Steiner Certificate of Education (equivalent to A Levels) (https://www.sedt.co.nz) and Level 2 Crossfields Institute Integrated Education (https://crossfieldsinstitute.com/level-2-integrated-education-extended-diploma/)