Michael Mount Waldorf School
Learning and Development in Sandton

This is a mainstream school that focuses on educating the whole child using the educational principles laid down by Dr Rudolf Steiner.

The diverse student body represents a wide spectrum of socio-economic backgrounds, languages and cultural groups from South Africa, Africa, Europe and elsewhere. Michael Mount Waldorf School is based on a century-old educational philosophy proven so successful that it has become one of the fastest-growing educational systems in the world. The essay described the major phases of child development that formed the foundation of Steiner’s approach to education. Many more schools based on his educational principles were founded in Europe during Steiner’s lifetime. Today there are more than 1,000 registered Waldorf schools, more than 2,000 Waldorf early childhood development facilities, more than 600 curative education facilities, and more than 60 Waldorf teacher training facilities spread across the globe. 1973: The tennis courts and first three permanent classrooms are completed. It becomes the Steiner Centre for Art, Music and Drama. 2016: The Early Childhood Centre is established and the high school block is extended. The unfolding leaf is presented inside a pentagram. A pentagram is a five-pointed star drawn with five straight strokes. The symbol of the pentagram has been used since time immemorial with widely differing meanings assigned to it by different cultures and religions. The designing of Waldorf schools is a collaborative process all over the world. The way a room works must also be appropriate to the stage of development of the children in it. Class One children, for example, feel that they are part of a family, with the teacher as a parent. A room like this, though, would not be suitable for a high school class. This gives a feeling of upliftment, very necessary in our often rather depressing world. These kinds of considerations, based as they are on the needs of the human being, have nearly always been present in planning the school’s buildings. At Sandton Town Council’s insistence, the first three permanent classrooms were built on the Bryanston Drive side of the property. The beautiful auditorium is the heart of the school. Initially only the foundations and part of the stage walls could be built. As was the High School block of classrooms which was completed in In March 2007 a copper casket filled with the hopes and wishes of all the high school students of that time was buried in the main wall of the new high school block. His paintings and drawings influenced many modern artists. Three of the 17 buildings he designed have been listed amongst the most significant works of modern architecture in the world.