Rudolf Steiner School Kings Langley
Rudolf Steiner School Kings Langley is a Steiner School located in Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England, formed in 1949.
The school caters for pupils aged 3 to 19 years old, and has a capacity of 440 pupils.
The School is set on 10 acres (40,000 m2) of grounds, on the site of Kings Langley Palace, a 13th-century Plantagenet royal palace.
The grounds are on the site of the medieval Dominican Priory of Kings Langley. The school was incorporated in its present form offering Waldorf education in 1949 and was at that time called the New School. A private school had existed on this site since around 1909 and was known as Coombe Hill School or Priory School. The headmistress, Margaret Cross, was interested in progressive ideas in education and in 1921 attended a course run by Dr. Rudolf Steiner, who visited the school himself in April 1922. From then on elements of Steiner's educational method such as bio-dynamic gardening and eurythmy were included in the curriculum. The school became fully committed to the Steiner method in 1949. The main school block was built in stages between 1955–75, the dining room and theatre added in 1969-71 and the sports hall in 1970. The kindergarten was built on the edge of the grounds near Friarswood in 1966 and the Pottery, was opened in 1991.
There are three stages to any Steiner education: kindergarten, lower school and upper school.
There are two Kindergartens at Rudolf Steiner Kings Langley School, both of which are in a separate area from the main school building. This is where children from 3 years of age to 5 years spend their day. Kindergarten is like an extended playgroup. During the day the children play games, do creative activities and go on short walks in the school grounds.
The lower school consists of classes 1 to 8. There is one class per year with roughly 25 students in each class. The years are academically one year behind the average state school, for example children in class six would be in year seven at a state secondary school.
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