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Tuition Assistance (TA) is available for all grades enrollments that are qualifying applicants. Early Childhood tuition is lower than grades tuition. Please view www.valleywaldorfcityschool.org for more details or contact our school at admissions@valleywaldorf.org
School Motto: Imagination is more important than knowledge.
School Mascot: Wild Boars
AtThe Valley Waldorf City School, we recognize the need
for an enlivened and creative approach to education specific to our
times. Using a curriculum inspired by Waldorf pedagogy we believe
in Waldorf education as an art form, and we strive for it to be a
focal point for cultural events and work thoroughly to participate
in the dynamic process of community building. Our community is
dedicated to bringing opportunities in education for children and
families in the Los Angeles area.
The Valley Waldorf City School is a diverse and
international community of families from a broad range of cultural,
ethnic, and socio-economic backgrounds. The neighborhood of
the school reflects this diverse, multicultural heritage and the
history of the Los Angeles urban landscape.
Whether in person or our Beyond the Classroom program, our
students delve into core academic subjects in imaginative and
experiential lessons with their main class teacher as well as
classes from specialist teachers in areas such as music, foreign
language, hard and soft crafts (sewing, knitting, crochet,
woodwork) and games (physical education).Teachers work
with main lesson blocks, focusing immersively on a subject such as
Language Arts, Science, Mathematics, or History for a period of 3-5
weeks at a time.
Valley Waldorf is a tiny school. It has only a few teachers and few students, but it has so much joy. They have moved from a gated-entrance church to what seems to be a large house, and they will move again to a bigger establishment. I have heard that it was a large and thriving school before the pandemic, and it is now growing, but organically. So, there is a smaller classroom size that is growing. The aim of the theory of the school is to develop the child with wonder, curiosity, desire, and the confidence to learn and create, and then they could pursue the facts to learn. In this world of technology changing everything exponentially, some educators wonder if they should drill the children with facts and figures when computers will be providing all of that. Their thought is that the children who will succeed in the future are those who think and create. My son likes this school. He was recently diagnosed with ADHD, and the instructors are continuously learning and growing to work with him. And the biggest thing is the actual teaching of social skills. I have studied education, and there was little to no coursework on how to teach kids social skills. They do that here. The biggest challenge, however, is if one wants to pull a child out of the school, where to place them and why. Because the academics really start at 2nd or 3rd grade. This school currently goes from pre-K to 5th, and they are in talks of going up to 6th grade.
- Posted by Parent - HelenMia
52/4/2021
My son attended VWCS from grades 1-4. He thrived in their classrooms and with their low student:teacher ratio and hands-on, highly engaging education style. We recently moved out of state, but had we stayed in the area, he would still be a student here! We love VWCS.
- Posted by Parent - Martha S.
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