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Linuwel Steiner School

Locality: East Maitland, New South Wales, Australia

Phone: +61 2 4933 3095

Address: 133 Morpeth Road 2323 East Maitland, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.linuwel.nsw.edu.au

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25.01.2022 The arms of our Amber Star Leaf tree are almost bare but are ready to welcome back the children for Term 3 on Monday

25.01.2022 A Gumbaynggirr story from the area that a few of our classes have recently visited on camp.

24.01.2022 A conversation with Diana Thorvaldson! Diana is one of our high school teachers. What is your role at Linuwel? I am a specialist Maths and Science teacher in the high school. ...Continue reading

24.01.2022 Class 6 traveled north for their much awaited school camp. Darlington beach seaside, overcoming fears and challenges surfing the waves. The students loved exploring Dorrigo mountain, rainforest walking amongst nature’s wonders.

23.01.2022 Our friend Elsie has been excited to commence a supported integration program at Linuwel School East Maitland. Elsie has been making new friends and investigati...ng the lovely surrounds! Today she joined a learning project and learnt how to sand timber! We are so excited that we have been able to continue our partnership with Linuwel! Great work Elsie - love your work! #hrcskidsareamazing #partnershiplearning #lifelongskills See more

22.01.2022 These are some of the woodwork projects from the high school woodwork and metalwork elective. The baseball bats were shaped on the lathe. Students have also made speaker boxes with internal speakers, coaster sets and an awesome light made by Emma from scrap hardwood.

21.01.2022 The Friday morning bike bus rides up High Street in East Maitland, picking up commuters on the way - all are welcome to join!

20.01.2022 Busy, busy independent learners in Year 11 are exploring the structure and functioning of the Australian Political System in Society and Culture; the fundamental nature of Good and Evil in Philosophy; multimedia expressions of Self in English; the nature of Fitness in Sport Lifestyle and Recreation; and Graphing Functions in Maths. And in case that is not enough, they are pursuing an area of study of their own choice - everything from sociology and anthropology to nutrition, academic writing to computer science; aviation to graphic design... and beyond!

20.01.2022 Steiner educators know the central role that handwriting plays in a child’s development. Handwriting goes hand in hand with language learning, reading and worki...ng memory. This article highlights recent research which confirms that handwriting skills needs to take priority over keyboarding skills in early primary years. https://www.aare.edu.au/blog/?p=5296

20.01.2022 Last week Class 6 and their class teacher Navina visited Treetop Adventure Park. A day of overcoming fear while facing challenges, encouragement, physical determination, supporting each other, and cultivating growth and development!

19.01.2022 Today one of our primary classes enjoyed a day at Ash Island on their bikes. They rode around 10km and tomorrow back in the classroom they will map the route they rode and calculate the distance between points using the map scale.

19.01.2022 This was filmed last year, but last Friday’s spiral was similar - a celebration of the light within and the journey to summer.

19.01.2022 today's sunset at Linuwel ... just had to share

18.01.2022 Adam teachers Eurythmy in a few different areas throughout the school and so he needs to always have his copper rods with him and at the ready. They are not easy to transport but Adam is so thrilled with his custom made copper rod carrier! Adam gave Josh, our facilities manager, a brief and Josh designed and made this Josh's long term Steiner education shining through perhaps?

18.01.2022 NATURE IS FUN FOR KIDS 15-07-2020 DUE TO THE WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS SESSION HAS BEEN POSTPONED. Fun filled days for kids in the school holidays. Mums and Dads ...can join in. Younger children must be supervised by a responsible adult. Best suited for children 4-12 years of age. * Come and see what lives in our gardens * Explore the bush * Collect specimens * Make a craft item to take home * Cost $5.00 per child * Kookaburra Cafe * Picnic areas BOOKINGS ARE ESSENTIAL. Limited spaces available. Phone: (02) 49871655 or (02)49871440 email: [email protected]

18.01.2022 In the deep and dark land’s heart Where moans the South Wind cold, You will find a sun-filled cave When you walk a spiral road.... Shimmering stars will sing above To the crystals that glitter below, While you draw your light from a flame so bright Bringing warmth to all with your glow. As the longest night draws near, today we found the warmth within; every student and class teacher walked the spiral with reverence with Bessie playing on guitar. The spiral was made with our local foliage collected by Josh and the team, and arranged in our beautiful hall by our principal Tracey. (Original poem by E. Schwartz; adapted by Linuwel Class 4 2020)

18.01.2022 Class 6 testing their strength and agility - although in any ordinary year, Class 6 would be currently challenging themselves similarly while cross-country skiing, they had lots of fun today locally!

18.01.2022 Class 3 have recently shared their wonderful, creative work & the great joy of their first major project. This is often a significant project throughout many Steiner/Waldorf schools throughout the world. Each child created a model of a traditional home from around the world. The book 'Young Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe, from our recent main lesson provided much inspiration for many of the models. The children were also inspired by their own reading, research and a variety of cultures and traditions.

17.01.2022 Class 2 busabout last week: a day of bushwalking and exploring Tucker’s Creek.

16.01.2022 Introducing Colleen, our Class 7 guardian. Colleen joined us at Linuwel at the beginning of this year when she moved to the region. Colleen describes her teaching journey as beginning in a remote Aboriginal community in the desert between Tennant Creek and Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. Since then she has had extensive teaching experience in both Steiner and mainstream high schools all over Australia. At University, Colleen studied a Bachelor of Science majoring in ...Physical and Human Geography followed by a Diploma of Education in Geography and Aboriginal Studies. More recently she completed a Graduate Diploma in Steiner Education. Amongst Colleen's many passions is sport. At various times in her life she has played or trained in netball, cycling, swimming, surfing, cricket, basketball, cricket, Tai Chi, yoga, Aikido, rock climbing and scubadiving. She has also travelled Australia extensively (and abroad!) and looks forward to having the opportunity to travel more!

16.01.2022 Class 5 have been ‘Walking the Weather’, exploring the world of meteorology in their Science main lesson alongside depending their knowledge and appreciation of our local Indigenous seasons. This time of year it is the time of Murrai Yunggoray - the weather is getting warmer and the flying foxes are gathering...

13.01.2022 The Year 12 students have been working on their Personal Interest Projects in Society and Culture. They have to choose a topic of interest to them, conduct some primary research, and analyse their findings in relation to existing studies before writing a 1500-word academic research paper. This is a big task, and the more people they can gather to complete their surveys, the more reliable their data will be. Please help them out! William is studying people's opinions about the... global waste crisis, and their uptake of various waste management strategies. you can take his short survey here: https://www.surveylegend.com/s/2aci Kye is studying the factors that influence the voting choices Australians make on both Federal and State levels. You can take his short survey here: https://www.surveylegend.com/s/22z0

12.01.2022 We had a beautiful August day today for our day of games! The impact of restrictions on our usual celebrations and festivals inspired us to hold a day of games for the children to come together and enjoy a sense of togetherness and belonging (while keeping in line with current restrictions).

12.01.2022 Class 1 have noticed that the long-necked turtles have woken up from their long winter sleep and are keeping the moorhens and ducks company in our pond!

11.01.2022 Max is continuing to work hard over the holidays - the new front fence is almost completed!

11.01.2022 The flowering of Marrai’uo - wattle - marks the time of Wiritjiribin. The fish are running in the rivers and soon the cold and windy weather will end. For the children at Linuwel, making wattle crowns is a popular nature craft this time of year! The D’harawal seasonal calendar communicates an intimate knowledge of plant and animal cycles and contains details of the intricate connections in the natural world. ... You can read more about Indigenous weather knowledge here: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/

11.01.2022 Class 2 enjoyed a mid-week camp this week to Ferndale camping area at the foot of the beautiful Barrington Tops. They pitched smaller tents for the first time, enjoyed the wildlife and soaked up the atmosphere of mountain areas before they will begin their Main Lesson on this topic back in the classroom.

10.01.2022 Works in progress, Year 11 mathematics has been taking some time to explore artistic applications of their knowledge of finding secants and gradients of parabolic arcs.

10.01.2022 And another class has been recently adventuring! Class 8 has been sailing - developing confidence and teamwork together on the water.

10.01.2022 Today is a staff professional development day at Linuwel and we are fortunate to be engaging in the Greater Sydney Steiner Schools Professional Development Day 'Moving from Denial to Sustainability via Wonder' with keynote speaker Dr Haydn Washington. He is one of Australia's leading environmental scientists, with a distinguished record of successful of environmental activism and advocacy. Haydn is also a former Steiner school student and teacher, and since then has worked extensively in the field of environmental science in CSIRO and non-government organisations, conducted many flora surveys as a plant ecologist, and is also an environmental writer. The staff at Linuwel look forward to learning from Dr Washington and having his knowledge inform what we bring to our students in conversations about our earth.

10.01.2022 A conversation with Nadine Dyer! Nadine is one of our teaching staff who works with our senior students (Classes 11 and 12). With enormous enthusiasm, she will ...take up the role of Class 11 mentor in in 2021. And over to Nadine... What is your role in the high school, what subjects do you teach, what is/are your area(s) of specialisation or main subject area? This year, I am the Year 12 Mentor. I teach Society and Culture; Sport, Lifestyle and Recreation; Work Studies; and I facilitate and support the students in their Major Project and Self-Directed Learning but technically my areas of expertise are English and Wellbeing! What led to you becoming a teacher at Linuwel? I went to a Steiner School for the first 8 years of my schooling, and I always knew that I wanted to teach using Steiner’s approach. When my husband and I chose Linuwel for our children’s education, I knew that I wanted to teach here. So, when a position opened with a Class 10 group, I jumped at the opportunity. What is your background? I grew up in Sydney and studied for dual qualifications in Primary and Secondary teaching while swimming for Australia. I worked on the motivational speaker circuit before taking a position in PR and Marketing at Macquarie University while I finished my teaching degree. I taught in Sydney and at various schools in the Newcastle area before moving to Maitland, and since then I have completed a Graduate Diploma in Psychology and have worked as wellbeing consultant and mentor before joining the Linuwel team in 2017. What are your interests and what are you passionate about? I am passionate about supporting young people to find their voice, develop resilience, and to reach their full potential all very lofty ideals but in the everyday, I like to garden, to play guitar and sing (however scrappily), and if I can string a few hours of solitude together, I write. #steinereducationaustralia#humansoflinuwel#linuwelsteinerschool

09.01.2022 Class 6 explore the form of mother and baby during their New Life main lesson

07.01.2022 Class 4 presenting their main lesson animal projects to class 8.

07.01.2022 Winter solstice preparation

07.01.2022 Always Was, Always Will Be. Always Was, Always Will Be recognises that First Nations people have occupied and cared for this continent for over 65,000 years. The NAIDOC 2020 theme was spotted in the Class 1 garden today!

05.01.2022 NAIDOC week begins today and Linuwel School is proud to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The 2020 National NAIDOC Poster, Shape of Land, was designed by Tyrown Waigana, a Noongar and Saibai Islander man. Tyrown’s artwork tells the story of how the Rainbow Serpent came out of the Dreamtime to create this land. It is represented by the snake and it forms the shape of Australia, which symbolises how it created... our lands. The colour from the Rainbow Serpent is reflected on to the figure to display our connection to the Rainbow Serpent, thus our connection to country. The overlapping colours on the outside is the Dreamtime. The figure inside the shape of Australia is a representation of Indigenous Australians showing that this country - since the dawn of time - Always Was, Always Will Be Aboriginal Land. [text from naidoc.org.au]

03.01.2022 Class 10 and Mikhail enjoyed a fantastic day of fun and adventure this week in Port Stephens. They all learnt new skills and/or built on existing skills in abseiling and rock climbing all whilst being bathed in the most glorious weather and vistas. The instructors expressed to Mikhail with enthusiasm that they were super impressed with the skill, maturity and determination demonstrated by all students. Well done Class 10!

02.01.2022 This is a creative response to Ziggy Ramo’s song ‘April 25th'. The song speaks to a double standard held by white Australia, in that we can acknowledge what the ANZACs sacrificed for their culture, but still cannot come to acknowledge what Indigenous people have sacrificed for theirs. In an interview with Q+A on the ABC, Ramo raises the point that there were indigenous soldiers fighting in world wars one and two who didn’t obtain the same recognition as their fellow white c...ounterparts. This is at the core of my artwork. In the picture I have placed an ANZAC soldier on a plinth, representing the one ANZAC truth, glorified and unchanging. Below the plinth are the shadows of the trenches, the unbiased reality that is rarely seen. The trenches are what the ANZAC plinth is built on, not only in the picture, but also in reality. In the trenches are the Indigenous ANZACs symbolizing that their deeds of service were buried along with the trenches themselves. - William, Class 12

02.01.2022 We welcomed our students back to school today with great gratitude of the Wonnarua land upon which our school lives.

02.01.2022 Year 12 have been working hard to bring together their final set of assessment tasks for 2020. This beautiful piece was the creative response to an exploration of language, identity, and culture in English. In reflecting upon the film, "Charlie's Country" this piece expesses the idea that spirit and identity are held together through memory, and memory shapes who we are. The stone has been used to represent spirit, and as the properties of rose quartz are associated with rela...tionships, love, trust, harmony, and peace. Memories that draw on these hold the spirit just as the memory knots hold the stone. Being stone, it is also of the land, just as the central character, Charlie, is of the land. The shape of the piece shows how Charlie, moved from his spiritual connection to the collective dreaming of his people, through a sense of dislocation and loss of identity, to reconnection with love for Country and Culture, and finally coming to a point where he was ready to share his memories and knowledge with the next generation. See more

01.01.2022 Canoes on the pond today!

01.01.2022 Max loves holidays! It’s when he gets all his best work done. Here he is last holidays, helping Josh make the rocky pathway by the pond that now stays much drier in wet weather. He’s been spotted helping out with some more school improvements this week - have you seen what he’s been working on?