Prospective Parents: View Our Slideshow

Parent and Child Open House 6/3

5th Grade Olympics 5/16

May Fair 5/17

8th Grade Graduation 5/30
 

668 Hale Street, Beverly Farms, MA 01915

Parents of current early childhood students
are invited to

Experience a Waldorf First Grade…

Opening hearts for life-long learning.

Saturday, April 12, 2008
10:00 am to 11:30 am

First Grade Classroom
Cape Ann Waldorf School

Dianne McGaunn will be leading a Waldorf First Grade presentation for our early childhood families, giving each parent a sense of what it is truely like to live and grow within a Waldorf School, and Virginia McWilliam, our current 8th grade teacher, will be joining her to lead discussion and answer your questions.

Waldorf schools offer a developmentally appropriate, experiential approach to education. They integrate the arts and academics for children from preschool through twelfth grade.  The aim of the education is to inspire life-long learning in each student and enable them to fully develop their unique capacities.

Waldorf Education is truly Inspired Learning.

Dianne McGaunn received her Waldorf Certification from Sunbridge College. She taught at the Waldorf School of Princeton, prior to moving back to the Boston area where she was born and raised. Before becoming a teacher, Dianne received her B.B.A. in Business from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and her M.S. in Computer Information Systems from Bentley College. She spent several years working in corporate settings. She is currently the first grade teacher.

Virginia McWilliam grew up in England. She holds a BS in Chemistry and Biochemistry from the University of Nottingham. Her wish to spend a year doing service work brought her to the Camphill Special School, Beaver Run, in Pennsylvania. There she studied curative education and worked with children with disabilities.  She attended the Antioch New England Graduate School, graduating with an MA in Education and a Waldorf Education Certificate. She has taken a class from 1-8 grade at CAWS and another from 4-8. During a recent sabatical she helped train Waldorf Teachers at Antioch College in New Hampshire, mentored and consulted for the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America, and spent six months in South Africa teaching at a Waldorf School for children living in a squatter town.  Virginia currently teaches eighth grade at CAWS.