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Early childhood through grade 12 Calendar Contact Parent Portal Giving Main NavigationAbout Back Mission & Vision Our Campus Staff Our History Employment Get to Know Us Learn more about who we are and what we do as we celebrate our 50 th Anniversary this year. Learn more Curriculum Why Waldorf? Early Childhood Lower + Middle School High School Why Waldorf? Explore this integrative education that teaches to the head, heart, and hands. Learn more Back Admissions Overview How to Apply Tuition Back Visit Our Campus Contact us for a school tour and find out more about the steps in the application process. Learn more Student Life Back Athletics Music & Arts Henriette Reiss Award Trips Summer Camp Our Students Rich opportunities abound for our students both on and off campus. Community Back Get Involved Giving Calendar News Alumni Join Us We are celebrating our 50 th Anniversary! Be a part of our community and join us at events and festivities throughout the year. Learn more About Back Mission & Vision Our Campus Staff Our History Employment Curriculum Back Why Waldorf? Early Childhood Lower + Middle School High School Admissions Back Overview How to Apply Tuition Student Life Back Athletics Music & Arts Henriette Reiss Award Trips Summer Camp Community Back Get Involved Giving Calendar News AlumniSearch for: Our difference A living, hands-on education that engages the imagination. See what we’re about Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School engages the heads, hearts, and hands of students so that they may become creative thinkers, conscious collaborators, and confident leaders. Immersive learning and a focus on the whole child. Learn more about Waldorf Education Our Curriculum Throughout the grades, our age-appropriate curriculum is interdisciplinary, blending academics, fine and practical arts, nature-based activities, music, movement and more. Early Childhood Lower + Middle School High School AN EDUCATION INFUSED WITH LIFE Get to know us Our campus is located within a 900-acre Biodynamic farm in Upstate New York, integrating nature’s rhythms with educational offerings throughout the seasons. 900 Acre Working Biodynamic® farm 2.5 Hours from NYC or Boston 305 number of students 8:1 student-teacher ratio Calendar View full calendar May 15 2024 PTA Monthly Meeting Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School May 17 2024 Community Eurythmy Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School May 17 2024 The Artistic Journey: 50th Anniversary Henriette Reiss Awardee Exhibition Lightforms Art Center No event found! Load More 10 Reasons to attend our school 1 Childhood flourishes here. Children should be given the space to explore childhood, the foundation for creative thinking. A growing body of research confirms what we already know: high-stakes testing does little to prepare students for the true rigors of higher education and life beyond school. 2 Your child will find a welcoming place to put down roots. By staying with a class for several years, our teachers build a culture that allows a child to be seen and to grow confident. Our students establish roots in our beautiful valley, forming deep connections to their class, school, farm, and ultimately to our world. 3 Your child will learn to open their senses to better take in their environment. Overstimulated by media and technology, many children today struggle to focus and learn. By slowing down, our students are able to open their senses to see, hear, and notice their world, allowing them to draw clearer conclusions. 4 The unique gifts of each age will be honored. The needs of a kindergartener are different from those of a 9-year-old, 12-year-old, or 17-year-old. Our developmental curriculum is designed to meet the specific questions of each age. 5 Your child’s artistic and public speaking capacities will be nurtured. Humans are expressive beings and the arts provide a valuable opportunity to explore our feelings in life and communicate them. Engaging artistically with complex issues strengthens thinking by deepening perspective. Students hone skills in drawing, sculpting, painting, acting, and movement classes. 6 Your child will experience the gift of music. By our very nature, humans are musical: why not develop this innate capacity? Making music together reinforces social relations as we blend our voices. Research shows that music stimulates our brains, building synaptic connections that enhance creative thinking skills. Our students begin learning an instrument in Grade 1 and continue through Middle School and High School. They also participate in singing classes and chorus. 7 Your child’s empathy and sense of international citizenship will be encouraged by foreign language study. After learning both Spanish and German in Grades 1 through 8, our high school students choose one language to continue studying. They participate in foreign exchange programs with Waldorf students from around the world. 8 Classes in practical arts will give your child agency and lead to skill building accomplishments. We live in an age where the future is unclear, which can lead to anxiety, stress, and apathy. At HVS, we aim to give our students a sense that there is beauty, truth, and goodness in the world. Engagement in practical arts such as handwork, farming, forging, weaving, building, and orienteering, supports a sense that their choices and actions matter. 9 Your child’s intellect and imagination will be fed by dynamic main lesson subjects. With blocks that last 3-4 weeks, our two-hour long daily main lessons range from World Mythology, Botany, Astronomy, Geometry, Ancient History, Physics, and Meteorology. 10 Your child will receive a generative education. By sparking an interest in learning, we prepare students to meet the rigors of higher education by developing the capacity to ask further questions in the subjects to which they are drawn. Our goal is to create self-motivated, life-long learners. The Latest View all news News from around our campus Apr 26, 2024 An Artistic Journey – a 50th Anniversary Exhibition Alumni Apr 18, 2024 Farmscape Ecology Program celebrates publication of Field Guide to Columbia County News Mar 22, 2024 Roots to Renewal features Micah Blumenthal of Good Work Institute Announcements Next Steps Inquire Visit Apply Give 330 County Route 21C Ghent, NY 12075 P: (518) 672-7092 F: (518) 672-0181 Contact School Calendar News & Announcements Hawthorne Valley Association Initiatives Waldorf School Farm Farm Store Summer Camp Farmscape Ecology Program Alkion Center Center for Social Research Lightforms Art Center © 2023 Hawthorne Valley Association, All rights reserved | Privacy...