The Steiner Waldorf School in Aberdeen is typical of its kind. It has 140 pupils aged from two-and-a-half to 16 years, but no headteacher. But the position is not considered vacant; the role is carried out on a collective basis by all the teachers.
'There is no hierarchy here and all the teachers and parents work together for the good of the children,' says Libby Redman, one of the teachers.
'Although we are a small school we have a playgroup which takes children up to three years, a nursery for those aged three to four, and a kindergarten for children aged from five to six,' says Libby. 'The children don't enter formal education until they are six or seven but can stay with us until they are 16.'
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