Waikato Waldorf School Vacancy - Primary
Primary Class Teacher
Fulltime 1.0 FTTE Permanent
Applications must be received in email form by 3pm Monday 28 February 2025
Application Information: We have the exciting opportunity to appoint an experienced, inclusive teacher who has a passion for helping provide positive outcomes for all learners with diverse needs.
The successful candidate will be expected to work in our Lower School (Primary) starting in Term 2 of 2025. Our ideal applicant will be strong both academically and artistically and have a high level of expertise in meeting the needs of a diverse range of learners. They will be able to foster a love of learning in children and create a positive and healthy social dynamic within the class. In our school, class teachers typically stay with a class for a number of years. While there are no guarantees that this will happen, applicants for this role should be open to staying with this class for at least three years.
About the School: Waikato Waldorf School is a state-integrated school in the suburb of Huntington. The school was established by parents and wider community members in 1996 and now accommodates around 200 students from years two to thirteen.
Our six-year olds are educated in our adjoining kindergarten through a special memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Education.
Waikato Waldorf School is a special character school that is guided by the teaching and philosophy of Rudolf Steiner to provide an alternative approach to childhood learning and education. Our approach is characterised by its focus on the wellbeing of the whole child - emotionally, physically and cognitively. All learning experiences occur in harmony with the child’s developmental needs in an endeavour to allow the individuality of each child to reach its full potential.
Student Learning is supported through the special character of the school and across all areas of child development. Whilst academic achievements are measurable, there are many less tangible educational benefits, which support the children in their education and development and foster a ‘joy of being’ and a ‘love of learning’. The curriculum is integrated, inter-disciplinary and artistic, thus imagination and creativity which are most important for the individual as well as for society are awakened and developed.
Additionally, our school’s learning environments present a deliberate aesthetic and spatial design that is characterised by natural materials, shapes and contours that promote a sense of calm and peacefulness. This grounds the child and provides a stimulating environment for expressive, imaginative, inventive, physical and intellectual exploration. As a school, we are engaged in the human endeavour of contributing to the future of our society through ensuring the best possible upbringing for our children to achieve clarity of thought, sensitivity of feeling and strength of will.
Jane Keir
Principal
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