Vision & Mission

Birali Steiner School’s Vision is to educate the whole child learning through head, heart and hands offering a curriculum responsive to the developmental phases in childhood ensuring a positive foundation for a purposeful and productive adulthood is cultivated.

At Birali Steiner School, we strive together to deliver an education that honours, nourishes, and develops the creative spirit of the child. Our school aims to kindle in young people, courage, determination, a sense for truth and beauty and a desire for lifelong learning, with an understanding of respect for the traditional custodians of the land on which the school is founded. 

We do this by providing developmentally appropriate learning experiences that encompass and emphasise:

• physical development and connection to the natural world 
• advancement of the social and feeling life development of artistic and creative capacity 
• cultivation of living thinking through engaging in academic studies

Our educators bring the Steiner pedagogical approach to life, in our unique Birali context, so that young people may develop a healthy and lively connection to others, their natural environment and their own individuality.  

With this foundation, the young person can go forth into the world with a broad and deep knowledge base, a feeling of their own social competency and a benevolent sense of individual freedom.

Birali Steiner School values are underpinned by Anthroposophical beliefs and Steiner principles.

Wellness: At Birali Steiner School, our community values and fosters wellness in body, soul and spirit through providing a holistic education and environment that develops the whole child, and supports every community member, acknowledged through collaboration, tolerance and respectful inclusive engagement.

Creativity: A wide-ranging curriculum that includes a balance of academics and arts with physical, social and emotional development is offered through the learning environment at Birali Steiner School. By promoting creativity and imagination, students are encouraged to develop a capacity to think laterally in their later life.

Compassion: Our staff strive to offer an example through their actions and deeds, through clear thinking, balanced emotions and unconditional love for the children, colleagues, the community and our natural world. Enhancing the development of students to become confident adults who care for others.

Wonder: A sense of wonder and reverence is cultivated in each child by encouraging the child’s innate affinity with the natural world. Birali learning environment stimulates curiosity and love for other beings and natural phenomenona.

Authenticity: Our Birali Steiner learning focuses on striving to encourage the child to value truth, individuality, integrity and authenticity. Our Birali Steiner School community provide guidance on moral courage to stand up for what is good, true and beautiful.