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
Student Poetry
by Juliet, grade 6 Trees dressed in green silk begin their dance They sway, dance, waltz, and repeat And bow for an audience of plants The plants shake, whistle, bob, and sway, applauding their own ways The trees leaves blush red and thank their audience, Feeling...
Michaelmas 2020
The grade school gathered at Camden Hills State Park for our annual Michaelmas pageant and hike. The teachers were particularly pleased to see so many parents and siblings in attendance (while still managing to stay under the governor's group assembly limit of 100!)...
Ashwood Student Handcrafts for Sale at Common Ground Country Fair Youth Enterprise Zone
Ashwood's upper grades students are learning about entrepreneurship by offering handmade products as a cooperative makers group, now through January 8. With the help of their teachers, they are designing and creating a variety of high-quality handwork items....
Early Childhood News: Parents Enjoy a Rare In-person Gathering; Children’s Mornings Filled with Play
Marianne Bockli, Early Childhood Teacher On a still warm September evening, early enough for daylight, one parent for each early childhood student, joined in an in-person parent evening. We sat outside under the canopy with some distance between each chair and shared...
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...