Waldorf News

90 Years! Congratulations Michael Hall Steiner School in Forest Row, England

—from Michael Hall

We celebrated our 90th birthday today. We are the longest running Steiner Waldorf School in the English speaking world, having started our life in Streatham, London, in 1924. During the Second War the entire school was evacuated to Minehead in Somerset, after which it moved to its present home at Kidbrooke Park, Forest Row.

Teachers, children and parents celebrated by letting off 500 balloons (biodegradeable of course), each with a tag containing the childrens’ message for their School. The balloons and their message will hopefully travel far and wide, with the finder of the one that travels furthest winning a prize! In addition, celebrations included a verse written especially for the occasion, a song, the planting of an Oak tree with the wishes of all the School community contained deep within its roots and, finally, an enormous cake!