Welcome to Samford Valley Steiner School

Samford Valley Steiner School offers an inspiring and comprehensive education for children from Pre-Prep through to Year 12 in high school. Our school is located on 20 acres of leafy, natural bushland, in the semi-rural Samford Valley. This picturesque destination is approximately 24km/35 minutes drive from Brisbane, in South East Queensland, Australia.

Shared by the fastest growing independent school movement in the world, our curriculum is based on the teachings of Rudolf Steiner. The education aims to give each new generation an education entirely free from partisan political, economic, sectarian or racial influences. From the earliest years, throughout the child’s education right up to high school graduation, our curriculum is integrated to fully prepare each child for adulthood. We recognise that each child is unique and through focusing on enhancing each individual child’s attributes and sensitively addressing their challenges we strive to develop unprejudiced, well-informed, confident and creative young people who are valuable and practical contributors to society.

We welcome the involvement of parents in our school community. Click here to find how you can join in. Download more information by clicking on the button on the right, or call the school on 07 3430 9600 if there is information you have not found on our site.

Latest News
School Receives Environment Grant
SVSS and the Pine Rivers Catchment Associaton were successful in obtaining Everyone’s Environment grant for $17,765. The school and PRCA will work together to deliver a project for “cleaning up our backyard”. Member for Ferny Grove Dale Shuttleworth said, “The project involves creating a buffer zone to protect the local ecosystem, revegetating and rehabilitating the high school dam, delivering weed control on the primary school dam and the ongoing restoration of Samford Creek.” It is hoped that the project will continue way beyond the life of the project both on an environmental and educational level.

Class One Teacher for the Samford Valley Steiner School for 2014
Samford Valley Steiner School (SVSS) is seeking applications for the Class One position for 2014. Applicants are ideally trained in Steiner education and/or have significant experience in Steiner education in the primary area (Classes 1-7). For more details please go to Employment Opportunities page

Graduate Success
Our graduated Class 12 have done us proud, with all who applied for Uni positions getting the place they wanted.  The variety of courses that they will enter include: a double degree of Electrical Engineering and IT at QUT,  a BSc, Journalism, Social Work, Primary teaching and Visual  Arts courses. The NoosaPengari students who applied for Uni places, have all gained the places they wanted at Universities as well making it a 100% success rate for Uni entry for those Queensland Steiner students who applied. This is an excellent result and confirms the steps we have taken to ensure that our students can go onto to Tertiary study from the liberal comprehensive education that they receive at our schools.

Science Lab under construction
The brand new Natural Science Laboratories are in the process of being built and will be complete for Term 3 this year. This will be a significant improvement to the schools facilities and will have the knock on effect of freeing up the present “Science Shed” for the Technical Studies / Hard craft curriculum. This will in turn leave the present ‘Hard craft facility’ free to be used for black smithing and the installation of a kiln for firing clay modelling work.

Next School Tour
Thurs 6 June 2013
11.15am
Please call to register

Next Open Day
25 May 2013
10am – 1pm

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