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Education

The Stables offers a full or part time programme for young people who are seeking an alternative approach to their education. The young people that attend The Stables are integral to much of the planning and programming process. They are regularly invited to express their wishes and desires relating to subject matters they would like to explore more deeply. Many such group discussions and decisions take place within a weekly forum session.

Because of this unique way of working The Stables has an ever changing and evolving annual programme, which is always a direct reflection of the particular young people involved. The Stables structures this fluidity within a regular weekly timetable that may include English, Maths GCSE, Maths for Life, Art GCSE, Arts Awards, I.T., Working the Land and Drama.

We have a large resource pool of specialist tutors and artists that are available to teach for intensive periods and we have excellent contacts with the local and international community.

Young people who come to The Stables may choose to combine their studies here with a course at a local college or a part time job and this has often proved very successful. The Stables values each young person as an individual and will always try to accommodate their needs without compromising the well being of the group.

Whilst at The Stables young people will be given the opportunity to:

• Value their own questions and engage with their own development
• Promote their skills to interact and work with others in cross-generational groups
• Experience themselves as achievers, initiative takers and wealth creators
• Contribute to the local environment, integrate with the local community, and create social energy
• Undertake journeys and gain national/international experience
• Have access to experiences, contacts and opportunities, which will promote their next steps

The Stables works with the principles of human development integral to Steiner Waldorf education.

'We shouldn’t ask: what does a person need to know or be able to do in order to fit into our an existing social order? Rather we should ask: what lives in each person and what can be developed in him or her? Only then will it be possible to direct the new qualities of each emerging generation into society. Society will then become what young people, as whole human beings, make out of the existing social conditions. The new generation should not just be made to become what society wants it to become...The need for imagination, a sense of truth and a feeling of responsibility, these are the very nerve of education… the great thing is to enable the human being to find his or her place in the world with due confidence in his or her own power of judgement… our highest endeavour must be to develop free human beings who are able to impart purpose and direction to their lives.’
Rudolf Steiner