Sophia Mundi Steiner School

By Parent - reviewed on 15th Mar 2012

Location close to Melbourne CBD is great, and quite unusual for a Steiner Scho ... read review

By Parent - reviewed on 20th Sep 2008

A committed small Steiner school catering for Prep to Year 12. Great inner ci ... read review

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School Profile

Sophia Mundi is an independent, non-denominational and co-educational Steiner school offering an affordable, enriching educational pathway from Early Childhood to Senior Secondary. We are located in inner city Melbourne within the beautiful and safe surrounds of the Abbotsford Convent, adjacent to the Collingwood Children's Farm. We are an International Baccalaureate World School, offering the International Baccalaureate Diploma, in years 11 and 12. We are the the first school in Australia to offer the unique combination of a Steiner curriculum and the International Baccalaureate. We offer a real "Sophia Mundi Difference".

The essence of the Steiner approach is the principle that education is an art. Whatever the subject, its presentation must live - it must speak to the child's experience. Each child is valued as a complete individual - not exclusively for academic skill. Steiner Schools develop the student's capacity to learn, to be open to life and to develop a sense of meaning and purpose. A non-competitive environment allows children the time to learn and develop at the pace they need and protects them from the pressure to enter the adult world too quickly. Being part of a class community that journey together through the school awakens individual capacities and social awareness. So not only is the individual's development fostered, but students are also encouraged to develop a genuine regard and respect for humanity, and service to others.

"The aim is to educate our children to be positive towards others, resolute in oneself, thoughtful in observation and self expression and to pursue all this with enthusiasm, and with faith in the striving qualities of humankind. To do this is to ennoble the mind, to fire the imagination, fortify the will, and quicken the initiative for positive action in life." (Francis Edmunds, Essentials of Rudolf Steiner Education)