Holywood Rudolf Steiner School

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The Holywood Rudolf Steiner School is a Waldorf school located in Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland which teaches children using methods inspired by Rudolf Steiner.

[edit] History

The school was founded in 1975 in two rooms at the Glencraig Camphill Community at Seahill, just outside Holywood. In the early days the school moved site frequently before moving to the current site at Croft Road in Holywood in 1976. Initially the house at Croft Road which formed the school building was too large for the enrolment at that time and families actually lived in the spare rooms. In 1979 a new building which became the school hall was added. In 1993 a new block was built comprising 4 new classrooms. In 1997, with the help of the National Lottery, a new kindergarten was added. In 2000 another new block of classrooms was completed, again with National Lottery funding.

[edit] Integration

There are people that contend that it was the first integrated school in Northern Ireland. Often this honour is bestowed upon Lagan College in Belfast, which opened in 1981. However the Holywood School opened 6 years previously and has never discriminated based on religious or any other grounds.