This Autumn term is very special as it will be spent at temporary premises: Streatham Methodist Church on the corner of Riggindale & Mitcham Lane, Streatham, SW16 1QH. Many thanks to the community there for housing us whilst we await the outcome of negotiations with two local authorities on a new permanent site for our school. Term will start on Wednesday 8th September at 8.30am as usual.

In the meantime all families and teachers are invited to help at the Church from Thursday 2nd September 2pm onwards and on Friday 3rd and Monday 6th from 10am. See you there. Work days are always fun and now three come along at once! – also a great way of easing our children into their new environment.

NB: All school classes 1 – 8 and Bun’s kindergarten will be held at this location where each group has a room ready to set up this week

The deconstruction of our wooden building at Woodfields is now complete and the entire structure has been taken (in pieces) to store safely at Canterbury Steiner School (many thanks to them and to the hard working parents and teachers who have taken it down). We are leaving Woodfields at the end of August 2010 and we have temporary accommodation for September onwards in place. See you at our new school! It’s great that so many Boroughs are interested in talking to us about a new permanent home  and the future looks exciting!

See more pictures from our community by going to our flickr site – if you would like to upload pics up to this site please contact the school office.

After the last Woodfields Summer Fair that took place on Saturday,26th June 2010 we held a ceremony to celebrate and bring to a close our time on this beautiful`Woodfields`site. We blessed the future of The Waldorf School of South West London and celebrated its past 25 years. This picture shows the hands of Pat, one of the first teachers at our school, protecting a candle taken from the central flame representing the strong spirit of our school community.

Many thanks to everyone in the Community who worked on our Summer Fair 2010. The 26th June was a boiling hot and thoroughly memorable Saturday. The music, the raffle, the BBQ, the cafe, face painting, the maze, the wool workshop, the carousel (!) and the dragon. Thank you to every hard worker and to all the many visitors who came.

With music, food and and fun, our Summer Fair has always been worth attending. This year we are planning a bumper as we celebrate 25 years of our school and bid goodbye to our lovely current site at Woodfields. Saturday 26th June 2010, 11am to 5pm. This event is always more of a park festival than a school fair and all from the Tooting/Streatham area and beyond are welcome to attend. Live music, delicious food, BBQ, story telling, and kids activities! If you would like to have a stall, just turn up from early on the day (£20 per stall).

Yes the world feels particularly beautiful as we move into Summer Term 2010 and April in South London is all the sweeter after cold winter winds. All families are welcome at Work Day on Monday April 26th. Come spring clean the classrooms and make essential repairs for the term ahead ~ it’s fun and a truly tasty lunch will be provided. Children love to see parents, friends and grandparents working alongside staff, plus it makes a great first day back to school.

Skiing in Romania – what a wonderful idea! Class 8 (13 and 14 year olds) returned last week, after a busy 7 day trip which involved learning to ski on various slopes in different resorts, sledging,hiking in the snowy weather, visiting castles (Dracula’s and Peles) and the medieval remains of towns – plus snowmobiling. A just reward for all that fundraising they did to achieve it ~ well done to this amazing group of young people for getting there under their own steam.

The School held a termly Education Workshop this Friday, 12th March 2010 from 5pm to 8pm. The usual cost for these events is £20 (discount available for existing school parents) and this includes a delicious dinner. The workshop is aimed at adults who would like to experience directly how it feels to be a child in a Waldorf school (great fun). Attendees had a choice of lessons – 1st one from 5.15 to 6pm and the 2nd from 6 to 6.45pm. Please call Sheila in the school office on 020 8769-6587 for further information and to book onto more wonderful workshops of this kind.

A happy sign that Spring is on the way from the kindergarten garden. Our little ones will have planted this crocus back in November, perhaps after a song about a little brown bulb asleep in the ground. Children aged 3 – 6 immerse themselves in doing, so engaging them in regular seasonal activities means that they inadvertently learn about the cycle of the year whilst having a lot of fun.