The Bristol Steiner School, founded in 1973, offers a truly child-centred form of education.

Steiner schools use a curriculum which is structured to respond to the developmental needs of the children, and pupils are provided with the skills they need to become balanced, well-rounded individuals. As well as academic skills, pupils acquire a sensitive and caring interest in the cultural and natural worlds, identifying with fundamental issues of contemporary life.

The School Organisation

The Bristol Steiner School has an underlying ethos of people working together. The structure of the school comprises the two key roles of Education Manager and School Administrator, plus the following groups: Board of Trustees, College of Teachers, Kindergarten Teachers' Group, Parents' Forum, and Teachers' Group.

One representative of each of these groups forms the Executive Group, which has overall responsibility for the day to day running of the school. The Education Manager and Administrator are also members of the Executive Group.

Aims of the School

• To deliver comprehensive education which meets the needs of each individual child
• To offer the full Steiner curriculum which is reviewed and updated regularly
• To provide ongoing training and development opportunities for all members of staff

School facts

• The school has developmental provision for a range of ages.
• In the main school, children are aged from 6 to 16 years old.
• We have a kindergarten in Cotham which focuses on developing social, imaginative play based learning for children from 0 to 7 years old.
• There is a focus on the social wellbeing of classes. When children look forward to going to school, have a love of learning and enjoy a social life, discipline problems tend to be less frequent and less serious.
• Children of different ages mix and play together and there is a peer support system in place.
• The Bristol Steiner school is for mainstream pupils; it is not a special needs school. There are nearly 900 Steiner schools worldwide. It is the largest and fastest growing independent school system in the world.

The Bristol Steiner school uses a curriculum which is structured to respond to the developmental needs of children, and to provide them with the skills they need to become balanced, well-rounded individuals. As well as academic skills, the children acquire a sensitive and caring interest in the cultural and natural worlds.

School Inspection Service Report

During March 2010 the School Inspection Service inspected our school, in accordance with the Education Act 2002. You can download the report here