{"id":586,"date":"2010-08-03T23:30:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T12:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/khpost.test.pallasmarketing.com\/?p=586"},"modified":"2010-08-03T23:30:12","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T12:30:12","slug":"kindlehill-is-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/khpost.test.pallasmarketing.com\/?p=586","title":{"rendered":"Kindlehill Celebrates 10 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Feature Image: The first Kindlehillians on August 3rd, 2000<\/em><\/p>\n

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Kindlehill in 2003<\/p><\/div>\n

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Kindlehill in 2006<\/p><\/div>\n

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Susan at a Kindlehill picnic in Autumn 2000<\/p><\/div>\n

Ten years ago today – on August 3rd<\/sup>, 2000 – seventeen children, their parents and three teachers from the Rudolf Steiner tradition put down roots at 8 Lake Street, Wentworth Falls. Originally built in the 1950s as a schoolhouse for Blue Mountains Grammar, the site had been through many incarnations including a spell as an art centre and meditation retreat. Now it was to be Kindlehill, a primary school that placed community at its heart.<\/p>\n

Susan Herold, the only founding parent who still has a child still at the school (Mira in Year 6), likens those early heady days to \u201ca rocket launch\u201d, \u201ca huge blast of energy\u201d and \u201cthe beginning of an adventure\u201d. Pioneer optimism and blue sky idealism ran high amongst the parent group, even as the daunting realities of starting a new school began to kick in. On August 3rd<\/sup> 2000, the building was an empty shell without so much as a table or chair and money was in short supply.<\/p>\n

Lynn, who has been a teacher since the school’s inception, recalls the fundamental excitement of dipping into the wellspring of Steiner\u2019s educational philosophy, and relating these ideas to contemporary Australian society. \u201cIn the beginning we didn’t even identify ourselves as a Steiner school\u201d, she said. \u201cWe spoke somewhat cumbersomely of ourselves as a school for creative\/artistic\u00a0education.”<\/p>\n

Thanks to a loan from one mother, to teachers prepared to work for nothing, to parents who built and maintained the facilities, to John Daniel who brought his business and administrative skills to the table, the fledgling school survived. Without this level of commitment, Susan is sure that \u201cwe wouldn\u2019t have made it.\u201d Inside the classroom, the children felt only the love and warmth, however Susan remembers the uncertainty, the adults never quite sure what the next challenge would be. \u201cIt was a damn exciting time but exhausting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ten years on, Susan feels that the less predictable, airy days of the school\u2019s evolution has passed. These days, Kindlehill is more grounded and stable, especially with the purchase of the premise late last year. Lynn likens the founding of the school to “conceiving a child, providing the conditions that would nourish it, and living in relationship to what unfolded as its unique character or personality.\u00a0 We kindled a light on the hill.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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