History of Byron Bay's Steiner School

The school began in 1988 with a kindergarten class of sixteen children graduating from the 'Periwinkle' Rudolf Steiner pre-school. Class 1 began in 1989 in the Bangalow Showground shed.

In the autumn of 1990 the school moved to its permanent home in Balraith Lane, Ewingsdale, with a new kindergarten, administration block and two new classrooms.

In 1995 the high school commenced with the first Year 8 class and expanded to Year 12 in 2000.

An ongoing building program has allowed the school to provide quality learning areas for all students plus facilities for movement, drama, music and design and technology.

The school is registered with the New South Wales Department of Education and is funded by Commonwealth and State Recurrent Grants. It is a registered non-profit organisation affiliated with the Australia-wide Rudolf Steiner Schools Association (RSSA).

The school was incorporated under the NSW Associations Incorporation Act (1984) on the fifteenth day of December 1988, Reg. No. Y 06400-01.

The aim of the Cape Byron Rudolf Steiner School is to enliven the soul forces of thinking, feeling and willing thereby providing the opportunity to the children in our care to develop to their highest physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual capabilities. This shall be done within the framework of Rudolf Steiner's indications based on an age-appropriate curriculum.

Arising out of this are more specific aims, which are in accordance with indications given by Rudolf Steiner:

1. To develop an understanding of the developing child as indicated by Rudolf Steiner, out of the knowledge of the threefold human being.

2. To implement a curriculum based on indications given by Rudolf Steiner, with due regard to the requirements of the NSW Department of Education for purposes of registration and certification.

3. To equip students for this as fully as possible.

4. To strengthen community awareness of Rudolf Steiner education through social and cultural activities and events.

Rudolf Steiner indicated:

"The healthy social life is found when in the mirror of each human soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the community the virtue of each one is living".

With this in mind, the Cape Byron Rudolf Steiner School strives towards increasing its awareness of and commitment to the whole school organism