MADAM – I applaud any educational initiative that seeks to provide a better education for children.

The planned state-funded Steiner school in Stroud is testament to the courage of those sensitive, hard-working and motivated parents who are pioneering the idea in the belief that other educational establishments in the area offer a sound education, and therefore wish to use the time-proven Steiner system as the ethos for this new initiative.

Parents must have the right to choose an education for their children, and While I unequivocally support this initiative and wish the pioneers the very best of luck securing this exciting new school for Stroud, I want to make it clear The Acorn School in Nailsworth is not a member of the Steiner (Waldorf) Schools’ Fellowship.

It is an independent school based on the life work of the founder, and only has some elements of the Steiner system in the lower school, but the upper school, renowned for its three recent outstanding OFSTED inspections and unique direct university undergraduate and post-graduate success, is based on the Acorn Education Model, conceived by the school’s founder, with only some elements of the Steiner system in the lower school.

Graeme Whiting,

Headteacher

The Acorn School

Nailsworth