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What the grades at Orchard Valley look like day to day, for parents choosing a school.
In the grades, children stay with one class teacher for several years. The teacher carries the core academic subjects, so lessons build on what came before and what each child needs.
Waldorf teaching leans on a multi-sensory approach. Music runs through every grade, and children also work with their hands in handwork and woodwork, in French, and on the land.
A combined class means your child learns alongside a range of ages, and you get to know the teacher well. The same group moves up together through eighth grade.
Waldorf education pairs academics with the arts. The aim is a lifelong love of learning, and room for each child's own capacities to develop. Teachers work with the whole child: heart and hands as well as head. The curriculum is designed to encourage a sense of truth, beauty, and goodness.
The day begins with a greeting and handshake from the teacher, then a two-hour main lesson. One academic subject — math, writing, literature, science, geography, history, or drama — is taught in blocks of three to four weeks. That gives depth without losing variety. French, music and movement come from subject teachers, generally twice a week.
Waldorf teachers teach the whole child, not just the head. In the Combined Class model, one class teacher stays with the same class from grades 2/3 through 4/5. A second teacher then carries that group to eighth-grade graduation. Teachers hold parent meetings through the year, building a bridge between home and school.
We do not use traditional grades in the grades, and students do not take standardized tests. Instead, teachers send written reports to families twice a year. Each report describes your child and their work, attitude, effort, and accomplishments in each subject. Parent-teacher conferences are held twice a year, in October and February.
There are no computers in OVWS classrooms. Waldorf education aims for students to meet the natural and human world through their senses and imaginations, and to express what they learn competently and artistically. Early childhood and elementary teachers do not teach computer use. Waldorf graduates go on to work in many fields, including medicine, law, engineering, computer technology, the arts, government, and teaching.
In a grades room, mornings belong to the main lesson. Children hear the teacher tell a story, then write and draw it into their own books. Math is learned with movement and rhythm as well as pencil. After the block, the class moves to French, music, painting, handwork, or the outdoors. Teachers keep the same group for several years.
At home, you may notice your child talking about a subject weeks after the block ended, or drawing it without being asked. A child who has one teacher for years is known well, and small struggles get caught early. Written reports twice a year, plus October and February conferences, tell you what your child is working on and how to help.