Making time for childhood
April 10, 11:00 am – 1.45 pm This year’s Easter Cafe is themed! Willow and Class 1 is Italian, Birch a French Patisserie and Class 2 & 3 a Vintage 1950′s English High Tea. Come join us for some lovely food and a get together before the Easter Holidays. Funds raised will by going to Sisonke School
There are some interesting talks coming up over the next few months for parents and friends of CVSS. Tues 1st April: Creative Discipline Tues 20th May: Overview of SW curriculum and importance of working with Rhythm Tues 10th June: Sleep and Rhythm with Jill Taplin Tues 1st July: Nutrition and the physical soul and spiritual
An article by Pam Hale from our weekly community newsletter. I may be blowing my own trumpet now, but I never had any problems at bedtime with my children (lots of challenges when they became teenagers, but that’s a different story!). I believe the reason for this is that they always knew bedtime meant stories
Join us for the Hebden Royd Big Spring Clean – Just 2 hrs Spring Cleaning outside areas can help raise funds for our school. The event is organised and sponsored by Hebden Royd Town Council and each group of 6 people that takes part will receive £60 towards their charity or project. Sat 29th or
Mar 25, 2014 @ 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm Prospective parents and local residents are invited to visit our lovingly restored home in the old Sunday school at St John’s in the Wilderness, Cragg Vale. Staff and parents of current pupils will be on hand to show you around our two kindergartens and school, and
The Chinese New Year is an increasingly popular festival to celebrate, and is of course immensely popular in China where everyone celebrates with family and friends. The children love all the animals; the animal zodiac and of course the Dragons! The idea of chasing away the negative old, dusty, dead bits of our lives to
In September Calder Valley Steiner School welcomed Pippa Colebourne as our new Class I teacher. Here, Pippa explains why leaving the kindergarten and entering Class I is an important transition in a child’s life. “A special ceremony was held in July for the children that would be leaving our kindergarten and beginning their journey through school life with Class
Last month the Cragg Vale Community Association held a Chinese New Year celebration alongside their AGM. Children from Calder Valley Steiner School, with the local Montessori school and The Ark nursery, made decorations to transform the room for the celebration. There were dragons and lanterns, and all sorts of lovely decorations inspired by Chinese culture
Busy gnomes chip away At the Winter’s hard ground, So that bulbs may burst forth And Spring’s beauty abound. In the woods, damp and dark, They must labour below Crooked roots and cold stones, Pushing stalks through the snow. Undines melt snow until Water can flow again, Filling the leaves growing Green with Spring rain.