On Friday morning a lot of birds of prey visited the school. The art of falconry, as an ancestral profession, revealed curiosities about these silent and attentive birds with sharp eyes and sharp claws. The event served for the children to launch themselves to investigate about raptors and to draw them. An exciting event!!!
This Sunday, some brave have fought against the inclement sun putting their effort in making the school look nice. During this week, have been others, one way or another. It is a handicap for the community at this time, that where individualism and the scarcity of time make the flag, immersing subjects in their private affairs, the collaborative and community spirit that helps build great things can continue to live. And if that was not enough, the times of the virus do nothing more than cut those ties and isolate us in an intimacy that risks impoverishing. Even so, It is necessary for the group spirit to continue beating in the face of uncertainty and discomfort because only in a group are there creative outlets and shared efforts to face difficulties.
let's move on, with masks, with distances and whatever it takes… that we will still have eyes left to look at each other sideways and know that we can count on the one next to me rowing in the same direction. And if my legs give out… and my breath is short… “I can count on you buddy”… with your shoulder, with your words or sometimes just with your presence.
Let's transmit to our children that great things can be done together, that where I can't go, the other can help me, that serving the community is not an act that detracts from us but rather gives us value as humans.
Good Sunday.
Since i got pregnant, I was very clear that I wanted a different education for my daughter Sara.
During my years at the university, I had taught private tutoring to students of all ages and had observed something that worried me a lot..
At some point all children completely lose interest in learning. They live their passage through the school as a real torture, an obligation they have to accept because they have no other choice. I didn't want that for my daughter.
Learning cannot be an obligation, not a torture. That is why from very early on I looked for schools with active methodologies for Sara. In Madrid he was at the Ideo school. She was delighted, because in that school, children were protagonists of their own learning.
She has always been very happy to school. He loved to learn, He had an innate curiosity and kept asking questions and telling us at home all the things he had learned at school. However when we got to Alicante, things have changed.
As soon as you arrive in Alicante, We looked for a school with active methodologies and we enrolled it in one that convinced us, At first. But before long we realized that it was not what it seemed.
In a few weeks we find mountains of homework, of subjects that my daughter was not interested in at all.
A lot of exams and a lot of competition, In 3rd grade!
My daughter started telling me that she didn't want to go to school anymore, and so I made the decision to get her out of there as soon as possible.
It was still a school like so many others, in which children are considered mere containers of information. Where the content is the center of teaching and where the interest or motivation of the child is not taken into account, nor their individual evolution, nor its development and its vital moment.
Look for the options in Alicante, and the truth is that the possibilities are quite small.
I finally found the Waldorf School and fell in love. Okay, we fall in love.
First of all the environment, in wild nature, surrounded by flowers, with a garden cultivated by the students themselves.
Then we fell in love with the methodology. A teaching marked by respect with capital letters.
Respect for the child as a complete and upright human being.
Respect for their physical evolution, psychic and emotional.
Respect for your individuality.
Respect for their interests and their motivations.
In Waldorf I found an education that understands the essence and nature of the child and adapts to it.
A teaching in which you learn with the whole body, with all the senses and not only with the mind.
An education on the move, from experience and experience.
Playing, experimenting, understanding, singing, jumping, Playing, drawing, weaving, cultivating, writing…
We fall in love with the values promoted at school, of how the limits are marked and the love that surrounds each act.
We also fall in love with a beauty that permeates everything.
Children's notebooks, the classrooms, the station tables, all the material used is precious.
My daughter Sara is delighted. He loves his school, and feels a great interest to learn more and more. In fact, she is proud of everything she does at school and everything she learns.
It's something I see in most of your peers. Waldorf children are different. It is something that shows in dealing with them. They are self-confident and very respectful children.
And I speak of respect, not only from them to others, but towards themselves. They understand where the limit is and they also set their own limits. They respect and they know how to enforce. And this in my opinion, it is very important in life.
The Waldorf Alicante school is part of our lives and our family.
And I sincerely believe, what is the best gift we can give our daughter Sara.
A present for the whole life.
So, if you live in Alicante and want to know the Waldorf school, I recommend that you come to:
Online open day.
Saturday, 23 May at 5pm.
It is necessary to reserve a place on the following website:
There are experiences that accompany you throughout your life ...
The 10-11 years are the heart of childhood, a period of harmony prior to the arrival of adolescence. In Waldorf schools it is accompanied by immersion in the world of classical Greece, their mythology, your science, his art, Homero, Socrates, Alexander the Great ... Throughout the course those images accompany us in narrations, theater plays, songs, verses ...
The final part of this tour is a meeting of the 5th grade classes of Waldorf schools in Spain and Portugal in Ampurias, to participate in an Olympics in the magical setting of the ruins of a city, first Greek then Roman. Athletes are tested in jump, carrera, struggle, javelin and discus, not to be first, but in search of his gestures of the ideals of Beauty, Truth and Strength, not to outperform others or to seek the best result, but to find yourself in the process of giving your best.
The stone remains of the amphitheater and the arena of ancient Emporiae bear witness to the experiences of these children, dressed in their robes, representing Sparta, Athens, Delfos, Eleusis or Thebes. The ruins bear witness to the resurgence of the Hellenic ideal in them, in those pure experiences of themselves, of his strength, of its harmony, of her perfection ... you can see it in the brightness of her eyes, in the determination of his gaze, in the fluidity and speed of actions, in the passion of their movements… Everyone has reached perfection at some point, the memory of that leap they took is engraved in their souls, how his partner managed to throw the javelin like never before, how his partner managed to finish the marathon test and they hugged him at the finish ...
They return as victors, but without losers, victors of themselves, enriched and transformed by the Beauty experience, Truth and Strength, for the authentic experience of themselves and their companions on an unforgettable trip, fruit of past experiences and seed of others that are yet to come.
Juan Luis Alegria Ibáñez. Waldorf Alicante School. IIP Dharma College Alicante.
Modeling, woodcarving, talc stone work, and I work with copper
In Waldorf schools, manual work and handicraft subjects are given an important role within the whole teaching as a whole. This is based on the principle that these activities, in the background, they also develop skills that help structure their thinking: “He who knows how to move his fingers correctly also has flexible ideas and thoughts, and can penetrate into the essence of things ".
Thus manual activities prepare man to put his will into action even to think.
Among the activities carried out in the Waldorf school are: clay modeling, wood carving, talcum stone work, and copper work.
Deep interior experiences children receive through the completion of work in these workshops: expectation, disappointment, ira, resignation, meditation, surprise, new hopes, new efforts of will, intense joy in creative activity.
But emotional participation does not remain only on the psychic plane, but it penetrates to the physical, up to the fingers, fully participating both body and soul.