Aspiring to the Steiner ideals of Goodness, Beauty & Truth, Golden Hill offers your child a wonderful place to learn and grow. Whether considering Playgroup, Kindergarten or Primary School options, you will find the environment, curriculum and community of our school welcoming, and enriching. We offer an approach to education that seeks to nourish your child physically, intellectually and spiritually.
Our school resides in the beautiful, coastal town of Denmark WA. With warm hearts we welcome you to come and visit our wonderful school, and let us share with you all we learn and do.
Discover a holistic approach to education, based on a child-centred pathway of learning through heart, head and hands. Golden Hill Primary School offers a holistic program of learning, which integrates academic, artistic, social and spiritual aspects into an educational pathway designed to foster.
We are a non-denominational school, guided and supported by the Steiner Education of Australia (SEA) network, to create a child orientated and developmentally appropriate approach to curriculum, resources, and teaching practice. We work from a longstanding commitment to values and practices that promote the physical and spiritual health and wellbeing of each child. We work as a community, to seek kindness, joy, reflective practices and cooperation, promoting sustainable harmony, and the development of capabilities, within each individual, to prosper and thrive.
Our school staff body draws strongly on the insights of Rudolf Steiner and the Steiner Waldorf Educational Philosophy, which is based on an ideological framework that also extends into health, agriculture, therapy and the arts. The breadth and depth of Steiner’s theory of human nature and social renewal is too huge and complex to summarise easily. However, the Educational Philosophy Overview, on this page, attempts to provide a gateway of understanding into the Steiner approach to education, and its realisation in the classroom, at Golden Hill.
At the foundation of Steiner’s philosophy is a search for resilience against dogma. Steiner believed in the importance of an individual’s journey of discovery and self-discovery, which leads to conscious and responsible individual development and community participation. Each family at Golden Hill explores and expresses the Steiner philosophy according to their own particular wishes and preferences. The school provides resources and workshop opportunities to assist each parent with their own personal exploration of the philosophy.
The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) recognises the Australian Steiner Curriculum Framework as an alternative curriculum that offers equivalent educational outcomes, in English, Maths, History and Science, to the mainstream system. The Steiner Curriculum offers an exceptional educational journey based on a holistic approach and quality content.
The central aim of Steiner education is to develop and integrate the faculties of thought, feeling and willing in the child; often referred to as Heart, Head and Hands. This holistic approach creates a wonderful foundation for your child’s initiative and moral strength in adult life. Steiner Education has as its core purpose, the aim to meet the needs of the child in a developmentally appropriate way. This allows the child to shine.
The curriculum endeavours to meet the inner needs of the children at different stages of their development, not only with a change in style and method of teaching, but also with careful choice of teaching materials.
The child’s development grows from an early sense of wonder, to intellectual awakening and a thirst for knowledge. As the child moves from Kindergarten through the Primary years, the curriculum is designed to present one subject at a time and in a way that will best awaken the child’s powers. The teacher shapes the subject matter to suit the experience, abilities, and individual qualities of the class.
As in any school, the children face tasks of increasing difficulty as they grow from year to year. In Steiner schools, the children also meet particular subjects, topics and cultures according to the development of their thought and being. At the completion of their schooling, the children will have studied many cultures, both of East and West, ancient and modern.
Our curriculum satisfies all the WA Department of Education curriculum outcomes in all the key learning areas. The following overview will give a general picture of the main themes (main lessons) covered in the primary years. This is not a comprehensive curriculum guide, as it does not cover specialist subjects or other subjects, which are not delivered through main lessons such as social development, physical education or visual arts.
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