The Charlottesville Waldorf School

What sets the Waldorf curriculum apart is not necessarily what is taught but how it is taught. We know at CWS that knowledge doesn't come from an SOL mandate. It begins by nurturing a child's desire to learn.

This begins in our Nursery, Preschool, and Kindergarten classrooms where the foundations for academics, a life-long love of learning, and a genuine appreciation of the natural world are achieved with a play-based curriculum in a home-like setting. The groundwork for future language arts instruction is laid through a rich oral tradition of daily circle material and story time. In a similar way, the basis for math and science are established through verse and song and the seasonally changing offerings on the nature table. Every day includes plenty of opportunities for outside, active play.

In the Elementary and Middle School, teachers hold our students to the highest expectations and provide individual attention to help each student achieve them. Any school can teach to a test, but at CWS we teach the whole child, cultivating complete individuals. As well as learning the three R’s and immersing themselves in history, science and foreign language, all of our students plant, paint, sing, sew and sculpt. They play in orchestra. They are encourage to ask “Why?” not just “Who?”, “When?”, “Where?”, and “How Much?”

Half and Full Day preschool programs available, with extended day options. Enrolling now for all grades. For more information please visit: www.cwaldorf.org  or contact the school office at: 434-973-4946

The Charlottesville Waldorf School (CWS) is a pre-K through Eighth-grade independent school located on a lush wooded campus just north of historic Downtown Charlottesville. For over 35 years, CWS has offered a Waldorf education with a rigorous curriculum in the visual arts, music, language arts, sciences and math. CWS is committed to bringing a rich academic, artistic, and physical education to our student body based on the ideals of imagination, intellectual curiosity, social responsibility and diversity.