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No room for senioritis for these students. Our 12th graders have been working hard on their senior projects -- the capstone experience of their Waldorf education! Last week, they presented to the whole school community what they learned while tackling some pretty ambitious projects -- from building a log cabin by hand, to producing a short documentary on the impact of plastic on our oceans, to creating a video game, to converting a stock Jeep to an off-road vehicle. Fashion,

Friday's lunch had an international flair as the senior class hosted a World Cafe to celebrate the end of the semester and mark the completion of their World Cultures block. In addition to foreign language learning beginning in 1st grade, our 7th grade Quebec City trip, and our high school foreign exchange and international student language immersion programs, dedicated class time to World Cultures and World Political and Economic Systems gives our students diverse perspectiv

Students from Pine Hill Waldorf School and Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School joined Mr. Stewart and the 7th grade for two days of orienteering in both Spa State Park and Moreau Lake State Park last week. All of the students have been learning compass and map skills with their games/phys ed teachers this fall. Orienteering and cartography has been lauded in recent years as a lost art that is critical to bring back as reliance on GPS devices has decreased our spatial reaso

As main lesson blocks wrap up this week, our seniors are settling back in to their classroom after spending a week among tidal pools in Hermit Island, Maine where they studied the flora and fauna of the North Atlantic coast first hand. Along with Ms. Morgan and Mr. Whitney, they were joined by other 12th graders from Waldorf schools around the Northeast. They navigated seaweed-covered rocks in the process of exploring life-filled tide pools, waded through thick mud in search

The 8th grade class spent January through end of the school year taking some ambitious service learning projects from inception to completion. The projects varied widely from student to student but each had several consistent elements -- a service component, journaling, public presentation to class and families, and a main lesson book including research, biographies, reflections on the process, photographs, poems and more. Each project taught the students some lessons no tex

The 10th Grade is closing out the year with their Embryology block with Ms. Siy. In addition to studying the human being in his/her development from a single cell, the students study all aspects of cell biology including organelles, mitosis, meiosis and cell respiration. One of the highlights is raising chicken eggs to observe the developmental changes species go through as they age and develop. #experientiallearning #10thgrade #highschool #science

The annual Fifth Grade Pentathlon took place last week at the Lake Champlain Waldorf School in Shelburne, VT, with our school joining six other Waldorf schools from across Vermont, New Hampshire and New York. This annual fifth grade tradition brings the students a chance to live into their curriculum, specifically Greek history, for two days. As with all aspects of Waldorf curriculum, the event is designed to align with the students’ development. In fifth grade, as students a

The 9th grade wrapped up their geology block with their practicum exam last week! Geology is the main earth science subject covered in 9th grade, where they learn the major forces that shape the earth. They look at plate tectonics in depth, including the evidence and mechanisms that exist, as well as plate boundary types, the rock cycle, identification, and geological features. Students also typically also spend time outside looking at natural phenomena such as caves, quarrie

The 6th grade spent two days living into their curriculum on Medieval history and culture last week at the Pine Hill Waldorf School in New Hampshire through the traditional Waldorf Medieval Games! The challenges were fun and required thought and courage. The shire-groups were a mix of kids from four Waldorf Schools. These four schools came together last year at Lake Champlain for the Pentathlon (where they lived into their study of ancient Greece as 5th graders -- more on thi

From converting a school bus into a mobile home, to learning Italian, to producing a documentary film on freestyle skiing — Waldorf School of Saratoga Springs seniors have been busy pursuing their specialized interests with some very ambitious senior projects to cap off their high school educations. This past Thursday, each student presented their senior project to family, friends and the school community. The Senior Project is the capstone to a Waldorf education. Each stude

During the final half of February, each 11th grader spent at least a week exploring a profession through internship placements near and far — from Saratoga to the UK. These experiences gave them not only a jump on their resume, but also soft skills and a self-knowledge that will serve them for life. (Pictured: Emma Fenton, right, discusses an art project with a student at C.R.E.A.T.E. Community Studios in Saratoga Springs.) At our school every junior researches a professional