The Outdoor ClassroomDecember 5, 2011

Anything is possible in the Outdoor Classroom.  Working with the natural rhythms of nature, a space is created outdoors to foster an experience to balance head, heart and hands.  For one week, the Diploma in Rudolf Steiner Education students, also joined by 12 visiting students experienced an outdoor classroom programme, combining woodwork, metal work, leather work, pizza oven making and biodynamic gardening and preparation stirring.  Each of us experienced the unique connection with age old practises of making practical and useful objets through a craft medium.  Our visitors were welcomed with good humour, beautiful singing by morning and a harvest of refelctions by afternoon.

Thank you to John, Jonathan, Peter and Rachel, Michael, Brian and Paul for their contributions to such an enlightening and invigorating week of the outdoor classroom.  Let us continue to work with the rhtyhms of nature and be in harmony with our local environment that provides us with such rich resources for our survival.  Our connection with the natural world works to balance our state of being and allows us to experience natural, strengthening movements. – Lauren Kearney (Diploma in Rudolf Steiner Educaiton student)