Mission

The Mission of Pleasant Ridge Waldorf School is:

1.    To provide Waldorf education, preschool/kindergarten through 8th grade.

2.    To provide cultural and spiritual opportunities to the greater area community as well as the Pleasant Ridge community in the form of:

• study groups
• musical and dramatic events                   
• lectures
• bazaars and art fairs
• dinners
• workshops                     
• summer programs
• festivals

Quality of Life Values:

We want for our children, for ourselves and for the various communities of which we are a part:

 

1. A full Waldorf education, in which compassionate and understanding adults tend to the dignity and well-being of the children, helping them to develop physically, intellectually, emotionally, morally and spiritually;

 

2. A safe and beautiful campus/environment, overseen by all adults in the community in a spirit of mindfulness and care;

 

3. Harmony and diversity in a community that is:

•  Sustainable;

•  Financially responsible, balancing the needs of the school with the needs of the families committed to it;

•  Morally responsible;

•  In service to ideals of social justice and renewal;

•  Egalitarian and open; and

•  Coordinated through holistic management.

 

In summary, we want Pleasant Ridge Waldorf School -- centered by Waldorf education and anthroposophy -- to be strong and vital and self-renewing: living lightly on the earth, holding each other and nature/the spiritual world in reverence and depth of understanding . . . imagining, modeling and communicating a vision of a healthy community among and within healthy communities.