Roseway Waldorf School

Roseway Waldorf School is a co-educational independent school set on a hilltop farm in the scenic Alverstone community of the Outer West KwaZulu-Natal, near Botha’s Hill, overlooking the Valley of a Thousand Hills. Founded in February 1985 by a group of six families and three teachers, it opened with just eight children in a small farmhouse, guided by pioneer teacher Janine Hurner from the Cape Town Waldorf School. Now celebrating around 39 years, it is a member of the Federation of Waldorf Schools in South Africa and offers a continuous education from its Baby and Playgroup classes (from as young as a few months old) right through to Matric.

The school is proudly rooted in the Waldorf ethos, delivering the full Waldorf Steiner curriculum laid down by Rudolf Steiner. The entire twelve years of school are treated as a single developmental unit in which all pupils take all subjects, with the curriculum mirroring the inner growth of the child year by year. Teachers lead pupils through rich “main lesson” studies, and writing, independent thinking, the visual and musical arts, crafts, drama, speech and the performing arts are woven throughout, nurturing creative, confident free thinkers. In the thirteenth year, pupils write the National Senior Certificate under the Department of Education’s CAPS curriculum, moderated and signed off by department officials.

Registered with the KZN Department of Education, Roseway has grown its campus over the decades – adding a language block, an Arts and Science block, a Matric Centre and a Drama and Eurythmy block – while remaining committed to making Waldorf education accessible. Full fee and admissions details are available directly from the school.