Helena River Steiner School offers on-site education for Classes 1 -7 in 2025.

The Primary and Middle years in a Steiner school are a shared journey. Children keep the same teacher throughout in order to develop a strong and caring relationship and to allow the teacher to build upon each child's known strengths every year.

The curriculum is based on the developmental needs and stages of the child year by year, so that the right topics are brought at the right time to fully engage the curiosity and striving of the child. Steiner/Wldorf education is inherently steeped in the Arts, so that children often learn their core subjects through the artistic mediums of music, painting, crafts, woodwork and drama. Classes are small and children develop a sense of community service which starts with the care of their own school environment and works its way through to their place in the wider world.

In 2025, we have a Class 1, Class 2, Class 3, a composite Class 4/5 and a composite Class 6/7. In 2026, we are adding a Hybrid Stream for Class 1-8 (see information here).