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.
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
Seeding the Future
New video celebrates 100th anniversary of Waldorf education. "Seeding the Future" provides a glimpse into the principles of Waldorf education, an education that fosters concern for others, connection to the world, and the capacity to be in service to society. This...
All Hallows’ Eve Walk Coming Friday, October 25
Join us on Friday, October 25, from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. for our annual All Hallows' Eve Walk! Each year, Ashwood offers this enchanted evening as a gift to the young and young-at-heart of midcoast Maine. In this alternative to traditional trick-or-treat activities,...
Fall Service Day: “It is the heart that does the giving.”
Last week, Ashwood students from grades 1-8 went out into the community to lend a helping hand during our Fall Service Day. We visited five local nonprofit organizations: Merryspring Nature Center, PAWS Animal Adoption Center, Erickson Field Preserve, Hospitality...
Michaelmas Pageant & Harvest Festival 2019
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Ashwood Celebrates “Waldorf 100” with Aerial Photography
With a giant hats-off to Chris Brown of Camden Real Estate, Ashwood students and faculty participated in a short video on September 19 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Waldorf education. While Chris positioned his camera-eqipped drone high in the air above...
Speaking Up/ Speaking Out
This summer I attended a daylong workshop titled Teaching Social Justice 101 at the Holocaust and Human Rights Center (HHRC) of Maine on the campus of the UMA. Led by faculty from Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama,...