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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.
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Bridge Crossing 2021
Penobscot Culture Day
Pentathlon 2021
Despite the hot and humid weather, our Pentathlon athletes performed with grace, speed, accuracy, and good sportsmanship. The event began with odes to a pantheon of Greek gods, followed by a rendition of "Chanson pour les petits enfants," to the accompaniment of...
The Year 1376. HAMELIN (Germany): Country Mouse & City Mouse Part Ways; Piper Vanquishes Rats (Mostly)
On a warm breezy day last week, Class 1-3 presented a rare treat as the Children of Hamelin in our school’s spring performance of "The Pied Piper". The children's voices (and animal masks) reflected the joy and wonder of the early grades and brought a balancing...