Shearwater The Mullumbimby Steiner School

Schools Australia introduces Shearwater The Mullumbimby Steiner School in Mullumbimby, for all your education and learning needs.

Shearwater, the Mullumbimby Steiner School, is nestled among the green hills of the Byron Shire hinterland, 3.5 km from “the biggest little town in Australia”: Mullumbimby, New South Wales.

Our School acknowledges that it stands in Arakwal Country, a part of the Bundjalung Nation, and we take this opportunity to pay our respects to the traditional custodial owners, both past and present, as well as to the elemental and spiritual beings that cohabit this place.

Why Shearwater?

• Shearwater, the Mullumbimby Steiner School, offers education and learning as an experience.

• In today’s mainstream education, outcomes and competence based education plays an important part in content delivery and student assessments. The individual experience of learning is relegated to a secondary consideration.

• At Shearwater, the commitment is to individual learning needs. We place experience-based education as first priority.

• Since our inception in 1993, Shearwater has been identified by its unique and innovative approach to and expression of Steiner / Waldorf education in Northern NSW.

Our Areas of Innovation:

• Place, Landscape, Architecture, Rainforest and Wetlands Regeneration, Bio Dynamic Gardening

• Original lesson content reflecting geographic and contemporary appropriateness, particularly in the area of Early Childhood and Primary School

• For our middle school ( Classes 7 – 10) we offer a unique Outdoor Education program with white water activities, abseiling, canyoning, canoeing and scuba-diving (PADI).

• Field Trips ( K -12) with destinations such as Garma (NT), Tasmania, North-West Island, New Zealand, Vanuatu, China, Japan

• Overseas Student Exchange Program

• Innovative Personal Development Program for Middle School, employing active meditative processes ( water colour painting, yoga and Eurythmy) combined with Current Affairs, World Awareness programs

• Wearable Arts Vision in Education (WAVE), an integrated performance event involving: Visual Art, Visual Design, Textiles, Dance, Design technology, Multi Media, Music, Drama, Entertainment Industry and Business Studies.

• ICT Shearwater as an Apple School of Excellence

• Annual Shearwater Film Festival and Multi Media