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WEEKLY NEWSLETTER No. 8 16 March 2018 4 Marlow Road Kenilworth 7708 Cape Town Tel. 021 797 9728 Fax 021 797 1207 [email protected] www.michaeloak.org.za

School Closing Times Next Week A Sense of Community The whole School will close at 11h30 on Tuesday 20 March. ------Dear Friends, Aftercare Closing Times I have been thinking about our school and what makes it unique – why we choose to send our children Kindergarten: 2.15pm to a Waldorf school, this one in particular. My view - from inside out (my view from the office) and outside in (parent of three children who all attended Michael Oak) – is this: Primary: 4.30pm ------One of the reasons for our uniqueness is the sense of community, with both children and parents. This is fostered by the physically small area covered by the school – we can’t really avoid each other in this No Sport suburban block bounded by the railway, Marlow, Gibson and Sheerness roads. It’s a case of community next week by osmosis! So really, this is “geluk by die ongeluk”. We may complain about the lack of space, but it The sport programme does have this benefit – a real one. Parents, teachers and children have much more contact with each has been concluded other than we might have done in a larger area, and so know each other better. for this term. The teachers at Michael Oak make the main difference between this school and most others. Their focus ooooooooooooooooooooooo on the children is so deep and complex, the relationship forged over years. They keep their classes in their hearts and minds, discuss pupils at faculty meetings, and they depend on each other for advice, Harvest Festival support and encouragement. Parents are also a vital part of the Michael Oak mix, as their input is valued by the teachers in understanding and helping the children to achieve their potential. It is a two- Donations way process, for the teachers also have the expectation that their advice and suggestions to parents will Donations of non- be followed through. Keeping the balance of this give and take keeps us all engaged and involved. perishable foods for Baphumelele are still Another thing that holds us in the loose network welcome! that is the Michael Oak community is the fact that Please bring these to because we are not a really wealthy community, school first thing on we need to work together to get things done Monday morning before rather than just dig into our pockets unthinkingly our Harvest Festival. (or resentfully) to fund another project. Here again, “geluk by die ongeluk”. I have found over ooooooooooooooooooooooo the years that the workshops for making Fair The Leaflet goods have introduced me to people I might not have met otherwise, let alone grown to know and next week value, besides teaching me new skills. The There will be no printed fundraising events over many years, such as art Leaflet, only an e-Leaflet auctions, extravaganzas, musical events, etc. give on Tuesday, the last day a whole new slant on our community. Ann of term. Kantey, our language support teacher, wrote once about how creativity and integrity are ooooooooooooooooooooooo nurtured as an integral part of being human – DADS, DUDES this is not just part of the children’s education, but & KIDS for all of us involved with Michael Oak, parents and staff as well. The nurturing process just takes Enjoy the a different form! The sense of community is also fostered by our Camp in Ceres Open Days and Parent Information Programme – current parents are always very warmly invited to "Thank You, Lesley" -- We all wish you a wonderful, this Weekend! attend, so that our methods and expectations can busy retirement! Standing behind Lesley are be explained in a practical way, and each one Lynn Kerchhoff and Faiza Abdurahman 2 seems to have a different aspect. These events are not just for Michael Oak parents, though. They will Primary School help others who would like to know more about in general, and they apply to the other Waldorf schools as well to Michael Oak. Each Harvest Festival event is an enriching experience. Our teachers are Tuesday 20 March 2018 available to answer general questions then, but of Please note that the Primary School will finish course the best place for specific questions about at 11:30am on this day, the last day of term. your children’s progress is at the Class Evenings – a good venue for getting a feel for the “class family” To mark the last day of term we will be celebrating our annual Harvest too. Festival. As we are still in the midst of a worrying drought we will be focussing on water, as without water there can be no harvest. In the The festivals, plays, performances, games . . . we Western Cape we have been experiencing water restrictions since 2016 so watch the children grow from those first small our focus will not be on saving water, a concept that most of us and our beginnings in the Kindergarten, right through the children are already well versed in. We would rather like to put our energy enormous changes in the Primary classes, then into water in a positive way and try to internalise how spiritually important maturing into the High School, and on into the wide it is. Focussing on water with reverence and respect. world. It is so interesting to hear of past pupils’ achievements, to find out where they are and what This is also a time for us to extend a hand out to those less fortunate than they are doing, or to meet them again at the Fair and ourselves and share our harvest. We have decided to give your generous remember them from years ago - their performances donations of non-perishables to Bhapumelele this year. Bhapumele is an in a Shakespeare play, for example, or what they organisation including a kindergarten, hospice and soup kitchen. These were like in Kindergarten. We are also seeing more donations will be used to make soup which will feed those in need in and more past pupils sending their children to Khayelitsha. Michael Oak, which is such a joy (the proof of the Please would every family donate some form of nourishing non- pudding!). perishables, e.g. tins, preserves, etc. and send these to school with These are community links that resonate in many, your child before the end of term. They will be taken to Khayelitsha to many lives. They stretch all over the world and hold Bhapumelele after the Festival. us in a loose network of understanding and This is an internal festival and will be celebrated by the teachers and the connection – the world-wide-Waldorf-web. children only. Thank you Lesley Swart From the Primary Teachers (past parent and past Enrolment Secretary)

The curriculum itself in the first 3 years in a Waldorf school, is a CONCENTRATION therapeutic one - working with thinking, feeling and willing (movement) in a balanced and rhythmic way, which help this DIFFICULTIES: faculty to develop. Each child with an attention problem which does not correct itself, A Waldorf Approach under the teachers guidance during these early years, is looked at individually to determine the factors playing into the problem. A child’s ability to focus and hold attention is a refined faculty and Child discussion in the Primary Faculty provides a forum for in the culmination of a healthy developmental process in the first 7 depth understanding. therapy, Therapeutic Art, and years. In the Kindergarten years, unstructured free play and Occupational therapy are offered in the school to assist the child protection from overloading the child’s sensory system, form a depending on the cause. vital part of this development. Recommendations to holistic practitioners who work with This ability to focus rests on many factors at play in the child’s life: attention problems through nutrition, supplements and lifestyle healthy routine and nutrition, sleep and emotional wellbeing, well choices are also made when necessary. monitored /restricted screen time, family lifestyle and constitutional factors -- allow the faculties of concentration to strongly advised against labeling our children with grow, or hinder them. ‘deficits‘ but rather encouraged teachers to see these difficulties as challenges toward wholeness ie. in working holistically toward It is for this reason that a blanket approach of labeling and solution, the child’s full potential is given space to grow. medicating is not an approach that we use in a Waldorf school. Allopathic medicines treat the symptoms but do not address the Ilana Rudolph From the Primary School Faculty root cause factors of an attention problem.

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found the Philosophical-Theosophical Press (later termed Philosophical- Anthroposophical). Marie’s training in recitation and elocution inspired her to the study of purely artistic speaking. She also gave Marie Von Siever Steiner – introductory poetry recitals at Steiner's lectures, and assisted him in the A Remarkable Woman For Her Time, development of the four Mystery Dramas (1910-1913). With her help, And For All Time Steiner conducted several speech and drama courses with the aim of raising these forms to the level of Michael Oak has recently celebrated Founder’s day, which is an true art. opportunity to bring to light the influential role of Steiner’s second wife, Marie von Siever Steiner. This is possibly a name you would This background in theatre and recitation meant that Marie was not even have heard of - which is a shame, since Marie worked also integral to the development of Eurythmy, which Steiner collaboratively with Steiner from 1900 until his death in 1925, and started developing in 1912. As a result, Eurythmy developed in continued until her death in 1948. three ways: as a stage art, as an important part of Waldorf pedagogy, and as a therapeutic method. Two more schools of The fact that Marie von Siever Steiner was able to have a public Eurythmy were then founded in Berlin and in Dornach, role, and be recognised for her talents and intellectual capacity is Switzerland, under her tutelage. remarkable, particularly in a time when a woman’s role was relegated to “Kirche, Küche, Kinder” (church, kitchen, children). At Beginning in 1914, Steiner drew up a succession of wills naming the time, married women had no rights. In fact, they were Marie Steiner-von Sievers as heir to his entire work and property, considered the same legal entity as their husband. It was only in and his successor in the leadership of the Anthroposophical 1919 that German women won the right to vote, and gradually movement. After his death on March 30, 1925, Marie administered began to earn better legal rights. (Until Nazi sent women his entire literary and artistic estate, which comprised some 5,900 back to the kitchen.) lectures, a long series of essays, letters, and 28 books. These have culminated into over 300 volumes, which have not yet been fully About Marie published. Marie edited over 500 publications, with explanations Born on 14 March 1867 to an aristocratic family in Włocławek, and introductions. Poland, then part of Imperial Russia Marie received a good To continue Steiner’s work, she founded the Rudolf Steiner estate education and was fluent in Russian, German, English, French and administration in 1943 to administer his literary and artistic estate. Italian. She also studied theatre and recitation with a various On December 1, 1947 she officially gave all rights to the works of European teachers. Steiner. The couple first met in 1900 at one of Steiner’s lectures, but only Marie von Siever Steiner needs to be remembered for her married in 1914. (Steiner’s first wife passed away in 1911). Before invaluable contribution to . She was a remarkable and after their marriage, Marie was involved in Steiner’s work, woman for her time, and for all time. accompanying him on lecture tours, acting as secretary, translator, editor, and organiser. In 1908, she overcame difficulties By Sandy Mitchell publishing Steiner’s work by drawing on her own resources to To our growing consciousness. Send us your thoughts, to [email protected]

Handwork made for the Class 3 -- Learning the Ropes Kindergarten Harvest Festival

To decorate the classroom for the Kindergarten Harvest Festival, the Biggies made gods-eyes, while the Littlies made seed circles.

Practising ball control under the skilful guidance of coach Koffi Mvumbi 4

Basketball Both the U11 and U13 basketball teams played Constantia Waldorf School this week. All four teams played well. Congratulations to Michael Oak for winning their matches. The U11 team, a mixed team with both girls and boys, was particularly exciting as this was their first match. We often play all boy schools so the girls don't always get a chance to play. Results: U13 26-16. U11 26 -0. Well played everyone!

The Under-13 team at Constantia Waldorf earlier this week

The Under-11 girls and boys team at Michael Oak this week 5

WALDORF WORLDWIDE

Waldorf Education in the world’s cultures

The Waldorf movement is becoming ever more international. raise questions as to the extent to which weekly verses, seasonal Worldwide there are over 1,000 schools and 1,800 kindergartens festivals or central European story materials are suitable for other in more than 70 countries. The most recent pioneers are cultural regions? Myanmar, Greece and . Neil Boland, a Waldorf teacher in New Zealand, questioned Hence it is not surprising that for a number of years we have teachers at Waldorf schools who came from a Maori background. been occupied by the question how this system of education One result was that a “Eurocentric view” adheres to Waldorf might look, for example, in Russia, Australia or Japan. Does it education. Boland has called for the curriculum to be re- make sense to perform the Christmas plays at the height of examined to see how it fits into the local context and for an summer in New Zealand while the sweat is dripping off the actors investigation as to whether the school community takes the dressed in furs and woolly hats? ... perspective of minorities into account. The point is to connect this The Christian festivals of the year, above all Christmas, Easter, St system of education with the local place, time and people. John’s Tide and Michaelmas are closely connected with the Let us look at examples in which the local culture has come to seasons in central Europe. These festivals coincide in the calendar expression in Waldorf education. In a research project, Carlo with a specific position of the sun or moon. Furthermore, many Willmann studied the question as to how the specific educational people experience a particular mood in nature at particular times concept in Waldorf schools is applied with a view to so-called of the year. Easter, which takes place in the European spring, is “religious education” in a non-Christian context. To this end he associated with new growth and Christmas, at the time of the studied the Sekem school in and the Israeli Waldorf schools Winter solstice, celebrates the awakening of light at the darkest in and Jerusalem. time of the year. to page 6. It should therefore be investigated how the Christian festivals are associated with local events and moods of nature. Should we not

EXTRAMURAL ART CLASSES at Michael Oak – 1st & 2nd Terms, 2018

We had a wonderful 1st term, starting with drawing and designing Days and times, 2nd term's art classes (1 session per week). buildings creatively at their level, inspired by stories, information Children may come to the classroom used for art straight after and many pictures of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African school (Class 8 room). Classes start starts Friday 20th April, and Art building and other buildings as well. We then went on to a children may join in the second lesson or later. fabulous project using seven different colours of clay, each child ● Friday 12.55 pm – 1.55 pm (Kindergarten, Classes 1 and 2) making a rock from a sea pool, covered with the creatures and ● Friday 2 pm – 3 pm (Classes 3 and 4 mainly, but also plants from the sea and seaside, as well as drawing and painting Kindergarten, Classes 1 and 2) pictures and cards on a beach and marine theme. The emphasis is ● Friday 2.30 pm - 3.30 pm (an overlap class for Classes 5, 6 and 7) on fostering creativity, self-esteem and enjoyment of art, while ● Friday 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm (Classes 5, 6 and 7 or higher, as well learning techniques and a sense of aesthetics. On offer are a as all other classes) variety of media, themes as well as 2-D and 3-D projects, including ● Saturday 10.30 am – 11.40 am, or 11.50 am if they stay for those about the natural environment (Sue’s speciality). Our a socialising break (6 – 13 yrs) artworks are stimulated by South African and other artists, as well as current and recent exhibitions and topics. Also in Constantia (the Wynberg side) for all age groups on a Thursday starting 19th April. This term, projects will be chosen from plaster of paris chiselled sculptures, chalk pastel work, painting on canvas, creative clay Fees are R850 a term, including materials and firing. Visitors or work including clay painting and varnishing, tonal and coloured ‘try-out’ pupils are welcome at R110 a lesson. Detailed newsletters sketching, mixed media artworks including collage, drawing and and flyers can be found in the foyer. For more information contact paintings on personal themes, oil pastel drawings based on artists Sue [MPhil in Education (Teaching) UCT and trained Waldorf from the African continent, as well as various other drawing, teacher] 021-7946609, 083-2377242 or [email protected] painting and creative projects. Do remember you can put in requests for projects for the 2nd term! There will be differentiation as to what the younger and older children do.

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Willmann shows that Steiner created a concept of religion in education which is concerned less with the aspect of the content of a religion than to encourage the feelings and the will, such as for example trust, wonder or reverence. In terms of teaching practice, this is implemented through pictorial teaching, through language, gestures, images, music, symbols and metaphors which in practice are mostly accompanied by religious motifs. Thus in European Waldorf schools there are religious songs, seasonal tables, the celebration of Christian festivals, myths and legends. At the Sekem school, Willmann notes, religious education occupies an important position in the life of the school and in his research interviews he often heard the words: “Everything is religion” because in an Islamic context education is part of religious life. Implementing indigenous rites: Kallchay (harvest) “As an example, we can look at a regular work sequence from the celebration, Kindergarten in Peru. teachers’ meetings which was described by the founder of Sekem, . According to the Islamic tradition, Allah has 99 names which at the same time represent positive attributes of God and are intended to permit the imperfect human cognition a Hoffmann further describes the search of the internationally more detailed qualification of the fundamentally intangible being oriented Nairobi Waldorf school for new forms. Previously it was of God. One name of Allah is regularly meditated in the teachers’ guided by the Christian festivals, today it celebrates a festival of meetings and related to the educational activity. If “The Patient lights in which elements from all world religions have found a One” is a name of Allah, the teacher can meditate this name and place. draw the strength from it for themselves to let the gift of patience Silviah Njagi from the kindergarten of the Nairobi Waldorf school flow in increased measure into their teaching practice.” und lecturer at the East African kindergarten teacher training Story material seminar describes how the transition from the dry to the rainy season represents an important moment in the kindergarten and What selection of story material from legends, symbols and the school. “Thus we take for the seasonal table bare twigs, stories do the teachers in the Israeli schools and Sekem school stones and ants seeking food during this time. And suddenly, in make in a Waldorf educational context? Willmann describes how the middle of March, the heavy rain starts and within two days at the Sekem school prayers, verses and stories from Arabic everything is green. That nourishes us and it is time to celebrate culture and are used. The Israeli schools even developed the rainbow festival with all the colours of this transitional their own curriculum for classes 1 to 8. In the second year of period.” school Jewish legends about great rabbis are told, for example; in class 4 the focus is on the stories of the Judges Debora Gideon, A further aspect cited by Njagi is the African tradition of Samuel, Joshua und in class 5 on the story of David. storytelling. She keeps noticing that it is easy for the students at the East African teacher training seminar to tell stories from It becomes clear that the selection of story material says memory. It is part of their culture. something about the own culture. On the basis of this example, the task might be to reflect on the importance of such references Curriculum in Kiswahili, Arabic, French ... for pupils, how it grounds them in a location and a time, teaches A “curriculum” in a Waldorf school is not like a normal curriculum them values (as in Sekem) regarding the important cultural virtue with fixed learning content. It is an open concept which is guided of purity or how through the great rabbis in an Israeli context locally by the individual, social and regional options. courage and wisdom come to expression. According to Martyn Rawson, a Waldorf curriculum should Seasonal festivals present experiences, activities, subjects, stories and phenomena Rhythmically recurring seasonal festivals are a significant part of which are part of the learning environment of the children and culture and important for the child’s “understanding” of cultural young people so that through it they can find expression, train influences on location and time. Festivities and rituals reflect their abilities, cultivate their feelings and always find their culturally established knowledge and are therefore an ideal relationship with the world and others anew. framework for cultural researchers in particular to learn It is always a matter of giving the curriculum new life in the something about the society concerned. different cultures and bringing together the own cultural For the actors themselves they are important moments in the background with the development of the children. course of the year which give them stability and orientation and Alain Denjean writes about working with the curriculum in by means of which they express their particular cultural different cultures: “Recently a colleague teaching German told me characteristics. about the way she discusses the figure of Dietrich von Bern in Vera Hoffmann studied the seasonal festivals at the Waldorf detail when teaching the Song of the Niebelungs in class 10 schools in Kusi Kawsay in Peru and Nairobi in Kenya for her because he embodies a great ideal for young people: the victory doctoral thesis. The Andean Kusi Kawsay Waldorf school lies at a over his enemy is not used to strengthen his own power and self- height of over 3,000 metres near Cusco. Its seasonal cycle is image but he attempts to honour his opponent and create a guided by the ancient rituals of Andean culture. The school better world with him in peace. community for example together celebrates the ritual honouring “Pachamama”, Mother Earth. 7

“Now, she said with a big smile, she found precisely such an “For fairy tales – but also for other story material – the following attitude towards people in Nelson Mandela, who had recently criteria should, for example, apply: the story has to have died. Her pleasure highlighted for me the wealth of the archetypal images, so-called archetypes, such as for example the curriculum which does not prescribe that South African pupils evil witch, the good fairy, the innocent child, the good deed, the should be taught the Song of the Niebelungs but that an entry bad deed. Then the story should illustrate development so that it should be found in each culture to discussing anthroposophical develops from an initial to a higher state, thus a kind of themes which at the appropriate time carry forward the souls of accomplishment, sometimes also with a crisis involved. And the pupils in their development.” finally, a fairy tale or story should have a happy ending.” This is an interesting example: on the one hand it means for the This means that an international curriculum would be feasible, teacher concerned that they must find examples located in their but not one which prescribes a specific content but sets out own home culture, on the other hand it can also mean finding the criteria by means of which the content from the respective example appropriate for the development of the pupils in another cultural region can be worked on. culture which at the same time offers the opportunity to extend Katharina Stemann our own horizon. Is an international Waldorf curriculum feasible? Christof Wiechert, About the author: Katharina Stemann works for the online platform “Waldorf former head of the Pedagogical Section at the , uses Ressourcen”, for the Pedagogical Section and the International Forum. fairy tales to outline the following image: “The criteria for an www.waldorf-resources.org international curriculum can only be given in abstract form: first, a thorough knowledge of the material is required and, second, a Article source: www.erziehungskunst.de/en/article/waldorf-worldwide/waldorf-education-in- thorough knowledge of developmental psychology, particularly the-worlds-cultures/ the anthroposophical understanding of the human being.

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19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Harvest Festival Soul Care Human Rights Day Conference at TERM 1 ENDS Michael Oak 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 APRIL Soul Care Conference at Emergency Pedagogy Emergency Pedagogy Good Friday Holy Saturday Easter Sunday Michael Oak Training Training Pesach starts 2 Family Day 3 4 5 6 Pesach ends 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 TERM 2 STARTS Vaisakh Craft Workshops 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Links Meeting Fincom meet UCT Maths Competition 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Class 2 Parents Meet Trustees meet Freedom Day Class 3 Parents Meet

30 1 MAY 2 3 4 5 6 School holiday Workers' Day Cl 8 Second Hand Sale Big Walk (TBC) 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Class 5 Parents Meet Class 4 Parents Meet Class 10 Dance Social Craft Workshops Fundraiser (Mother's Day) Medieval Festival at CWS 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Ramadan starts Shavuot Shavuot Regional Meeting at Khanyisa 9am - 1pm 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Shavuot Fincom meet PG Parents Meet 28 29 30 31 1 JUNE 2 3 Michael Oak's Hearing Tests Hearing Tests 56th Birthday Hearing Tests 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Links Meet Trustees meet Craft Workshops 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Eid al-Fitr Class 12 Plays Class 12 Plays KG Parents Meet Youth Day (Father's Day) 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Class 12 Plays Class 12 Plays Class 12 Plays Class 12 Plays Class 12 Plays Class 12 Plays (final performance) TERM ENDS PG & KG Primary St John's Festival TERM 2 ENDS PS & HS

25 26 27 28 29 30 1 JULY 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 TERM 3 STARTS Nelson Mandela Day Craft Workshops All classes 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Links Meeting Class 10 Fundraiser

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CLASS ONE TEACHER Dassenberg Waldorf School, situated near Atlantis, is looking for a Class One Teacher to start Monday 03 April 2018. The successful applicant must be a Waldorf-trained teacher OR a Foundation Phase Qualified School Teacher FURTHER REQUIREMENTS SACE registered Prepared to undergo further training in Waldorf methods and curriculum Have an enthusiastic, energetic and creative approach to teaching children Self-motivated and have the ability to work as part of a team

Applications can be sent to: Email: [email protected] Fax: 021 572 2175 Only SACE registered and appropriate candidates will be contacted CLOSING DATE: 16/03/2018