Nursery World - Steiner pupils win public funding

Steiner kindergartens are now receiving public funding for three-and four-year-olds following a gradual sea-change in the Government's attitude towards their play-based philosophy. Under the Steiner system, children aged three to six take part in domestic activities such as baking, cooking, cleaning, gardening and sewing, but do not start to learn to read and write.

Under the Steiner system, children aged three to six take part in domestic activities such as baking, cooking, cleaning, gardening and sewing, but do not start to learn to read and write.

Janni Steiner, early years advisor to the Steiner Fellowship and a founder of the Rosebridge Steiner Kindergarten in Cambridge, said ten of the 56 Steiner kindergartens in the UK are now receiving nursery education funding, with more on the way. She added, 'The first four Steiner kindergartens to receive the pre-school education grant were inspected by Ofsted using the Desirable Learning Outcomes. Some have been inspected again under the Early Learning Goals.

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