Mt Barker Waldorf School is a K-12 school located on 20 acres of landscaped native gardens, natural play grounds and sporting ovals etc 5 minutes from the centre of Mt Barker. "Our highest endeavour is to provide a transforming education which engenders a capacity for free ethical action through clarity of thinking, refinement of feeling and strength of will." We work with the School's vision to enable our students to become balanced adult individuals; inspired with a love for learning; a morality which strives for goodness and truth and an appreciation of beauty; we intend to inspire a sense of wonder in the student and a positive connection to the world, arising from a knowledge of and responsibility towards themselves, each other and the environment. Also to impart to our students the knowledge, skills and means to work competently, with meaning and purpose. The curriculum is broad based with a comprehensive and balanced range of academic, artistic and practical subjects through all years. They are taught in a way that begins in imaginative play and comes to intellectual rigour in high school, developing a rich imagination that supports a lively thinking capacity and a well-balanced emotional life. We work with an understanding of the different phases of the growing child, and a curriculum that addresses the students' holistic needs. Diversity and difference of skills and abilities are embraced in all areas including academic, social, artistic, craft and sports. In the early years our assessment is informal. In the high school, students are tested every 3 or 4 weeks on the academic subject they have been studying in a block, and assessed in other subjects on the work produced over a term or semester. The Year 12 is internally assessed and a fully approved alternative to SACE enabling students to apply for all SA and NT universities on the basis of a TER derived from the full Year 12 program assessed by the school. The unique features of the school include the broad based and balanced curriculum - with the..