Frequently Asked Questions
For more detailed questions we encourage you to attend an in person information session with our experienced Steiner educated staff who can attend to your queries in person.
What classes will you be opening in 2026?
Our registration allows us to start with K-4 years.
For our first year of operation, these classes will be formed based on student numbers, viability and healthy class sizes. Our classes will increase with each school year until we become a K-6 primary school. To summarise, the maximum years we will be running in 2026 is K-4, pending student numbers.
Are you hiring for staff and teachers?
Yes, we will be hiring teachers and staff for our new school.
If you are interested please get in contact with us with your CV and any supporting documentation via email.
What is Steiner education?
Steiner/Waldorf schools engage with contemporary insights emerging from Rudolf Steiner’s indications about the unfolding human individuality. One core insight is that the individual is a threefold being of body, soul, and spirit.
Steiner education seeks to enliven the life of feeling and thinking as well as physical, social, artistic, and spiritual capacities.
As the individual evolves, they are able to impart meaning and purpose to their lives and creatively fulfil their unique potential. For more information see the Steiner Education Australia website.
My child has additional needs, can they attend Nipakawa Steiner School?
All enrolments for Nipakawa Steiner School will be assessed on a case by case basis, taking all circumstances and needs into consideration.
We will do our best to accommodate all needs where we can properly staff and attend to them, however this may not always be possible as an emerging school. Please get in touch to discuss this further.
Will children learn a musical instrument?
Music is a fundamental part of Steiner education and singing and music is incorporated deeply into curriculum and learning from playgroup onwards.
Recorder is learnt from Year 1 and other musical instruments are encouraged as the children get older.