ON-Campus, In-Person Learning 5 Days A week This fall
View our fall 2020 reopening plan
With our small class sizes, expansive 32-acre campus, and new open-air classrooms, we will resume in-person learning this fall while strictly following guidelines implemented by the Commonwealth of Maine. These unprecedented times make the experiential and comprehensive Waldorf curriculum more relevant than ever. We would love to tell you more. Contact Laura Purdom at info@ashwoodwaldorf.org.
Ashwood Waldorf School is an independent, pre-K through eighth grade learning community. Ashwood offers a rigorous, classical education structured around the stages of human development. Our professional faculty is devoted to challenging and engaging each student through a curriculum that integrates science and mathematics with literature, history, and the arts. Ashwood graduates are vibrant, balanced and confident individuals with the initiative to learn, adapt, and thrive in a changing world.
Statement of Solidarity
Early Childhood
Our early-childhood teachers create a warm, caring atmosphere that nurtures each child’s initiative through creative play and fosters healthy social experiences.
Grade School
Central to Ashwood’s philosophy is a desire to honor childhood and make learning joyful. Individual achievement gives way to the quality of our students’ relationships with their teachers and classmates.
Middle School
Through each of the main lesson subjects teachers lay the groundwork for the deepening and widening of the students’ understanding of the world and their unique place within it.
Campus News
Getting to Know You
In upper grades language arts, students are kicking off their studies with a get-to-know-you exercise. Each student will interview one other student and then write a profile of that student. Lots of good skill work here: listening, speaking, note taking, organizing a...
Grades 1-3 Begin Making Their Cob Oven
Our first interdisciplinary learning block of the year is The Built Environment, and Ms. Doshi's first, second and third graders have plunged right in to the task of building a cob oven. What, you might ask, is a cob oven? It is a wood-fired oven made from a clay,...
First Day of School 2020
It was a very special first day of school! After a summer of planning and meeting, it was wonderful to have the children with us at last, laughing, playing, and learning on campus. All is in readiness…Lower grades open-air classroom: waiting for the childrenWelcome to...
“A Way of Connecting”: Faculty Completes Introductory Nonviolent Communication Course through UMaine
By Elizabeth Doshi On July 13-16 Ashwood faculty took part in the introductory training for Nonviolent Communication, through the University of Maine/Hutchinson Center. This online course was taught by Peggy Smith, cofounder of the Maine NVC Network and a certified...
Energized for Fall Re-opening, Ashwood Welcomes New Board Leadership
by Val Shepard As excitement builds for the 2020-2021 school year, Ashwood Waldorf School is pleased to welcome a new president and vice president of our board of trustees. John Morin will take over as board president from Betsy Morrell, who has served with dedication...
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