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[Carolyn Grohmann, Parent] My husband and I looked at what the Steiner School produces at the end of the day and it produces children who are
independent thinkers. They are very confident young people and felt that was something tremendously valuable.
[Eilidh Freeden, Former Pupil] I really loved being at the Steiner School. The whole of my childhood was spent here.
I went from the age of three at Kindergarten until the age of 18 when I left.
I feel like I was really really well prepared for life after school. I ended up doing a performing arts degree and for me
craft classes and all the Main Lessons and things meant I had sort of a huge skills set.
At uni everyone was like "So how can you do all these things?" and I was like "I learned them at school."
[Bruce Houldsworth, Class Teacher] What we are trying to achieve is develop in the child a lifelong love of learning
and we believe that by allowing them a bit more space and time to develop this from themselves
we can generate that lifelong love.
[Olga Alapiki] My first exam in Chemistry was the GCSE and I got 400 out of 400.
I then went on to do Higher Chemistry the following year and I got an A Band 1
and then I went to Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.
My first year, I actually came joint top of my year.
I'm given these pupils who are so multi-faceted and have had such a rich beginning
and the thing that I notice everytime is their ability to be playful with their thinking
and I don't just see that in their art making, I see that in the way that they approach their exams,
like Biology, the way that they research projects in English and their flexibility of thinking.
[Michael Hooper, Biology & Physics Teacher] The Sciences in the school are very strong. We've had some excellent results and we've had the best in Scotland
in the Physics Highers and the best of the whole of the UK in Chemistry at GCSE.
So regardless of how we are doing it, I think that the creative education is helping kids to solve problems
and it's helping them in their Science education as well.
[Alistair Pugh, Geography Teacher] Over 90% of our pupils go on to further education, university or college or art college
They end up in a host of different professions and courses from Medicine, Law,
Architecture, Engineering and the Sciences and the Arts but
what seems to unite them all is that they are able to think more imaginatively and therefore entrepreneurially
in the lives that they end up leading.
[Evelyn Jellema, Former Pupil] There definitely is something different about people who have been to a Steiner School. Something inside them.
That they have the confidence in themselves to put confidence in others.
For me I definitely think that looking back I would want my children to go to a Steiner School
to have the skills that I have. Everything that you can think is not normally part of an education.