Berkshire Waldorf Summer
Berkshire Waldorf School, 35 W Plain Rd, Great Barrington, MA 1230
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Berkshire Waldorf School Additional Programs include Parent-Child, After School Music, After Care for grades, Middle School Sports, and a Summer Program. Students also take part in movement, choral singing, playing an instrument, house building, and knitting as part of their learning experience.
• Ages: 1–14 years old
Founded in 1971, Berkshire Waldorf School is now celebrating 54 years of Waldorf education in the Berkshires. The school is an independent coeducational day school for toddlers through Grade 8, with an Early Childhood program (Toddler, Nursery and Kindergarten, 18 months through age 6) and a Grades program (First through Eighth Grades, ages 6–14). Berkshire Waldorf School is governed by a Board of Trustees, a Pedagogical Director and an Administrative Director, and in 2021 it inaugurated a three-person Leadership Team. Its mission states that Berkshire Waldorf School cultivates students’ academic, emotional and spiritual development through its curriculum and provides students with a foundation to live up to their full human potential, creating lives of meaning and purpose that positively contribute to the world.
The school’s curriculum is based on the developmental stages of human beings as described by Rudolf Steiner, who founded Waldorf education in 1919. Teachers root lessons in experience rather than abstract concepts, and students learn math through academic skills and practice, movement, choral singing, playing an instrument, house building and knitting. Berkshire Waldorf School welcomes and celebrates diversity, including cultural, economic, religious, racial, learning style, gender identification and expression, sexual orientation, national and ethnic diversity, and uses a unique Star Code posted throughout the school as a teaching tool that reminds the community of its values and how they work together.
Berkshire Waldorf School is accredited by the Association of Independent Schools of New England (AISNE) and the Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America (WECAN), and is an Associate Member School of the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America (AWSNA). It is part of a worldwide movement of more than 1,000 Waldorf schools. Alongside its sibling school, Berkshire Waldorf High School (Grades 9–12, ages 14–18), it partners with families from Berkshire, Columbia and northern Litchfield Counties, and most families commute from Northern Litchfield (CT), Southern Berkshire (MA) and Columbia (NY) counties. Through Berkshire Waldorf High School’s “small school, big world” model, students are integrated into the larger community through classes and workshops in renowned artists’ studios, use of local labs and gyms, performances with Shakespeare & Company, field trips to events and museums in the Northeast, and international travel.
Last updated January 25, 2026.
• Ages: 1–14 years old
Founded in 1971, Berkshire Waldorf School is now celebrating 54 years of Waldorf education in the Berkshires. The school is an independent coeducational day school for toddlers through Grade 8, with an Early Childhood program (Toddler, Nursery and Kindergarten, 18 months through age 6) and a Grades program (First through Eighth Grades, ages 6–14). Berkshire Waldorf School is governed by a Board of Trustees, a Pedagogical Director and an Administrative Director, and in 2021 it inaugurated a three-person Leadership Team. Its mission states that Berkshire Waldorf School cultivates students’ academic, emotional and spiritual development through its curriculum and provides students with a foundation to live up to their full human potential, creating lives of meaning and purpose that positively contribute to the world.
The school’s curriculum is based on the developmental stages of human beings as described by Rudolf Steiner, who founded Waldorf education in 1919. Teachers root lessons in experience rather than abstract concepts, and students learn math through academic skills and practice, movement, choral singing, playing an instrument, house building and knitting. Berkshire Waldorf School welcomes and celebrates diversity, including cultural, economic, religious, racial, learning style, gender identification and expression, sexual orientation, national and ethnic diversity, and uses a unique Star Code posted throughout the school as a teaching tool that reminds the community of its values and how they work together.
Berkshire Waldorf School is accredited by the Association of Independent Schools of New England (AISNE) and the Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America (WECAN), and is an Associate Member School of the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America (AWSNA). It is part of a worldwide movement of more than 1,000 Waldorf schools. Alongside its sibling school, Berkshire Waldorf High School (Grades 9–12, ages 14–18), it partners with families from Berkshire, Columbia and northern Litchfield Counties, and most families commute from Northern Litchfield (CT), Southern Berkshire (MA) and Columbia (NY) counties. Through Berkshire Waldorf High School’s “small school, big world” model, students are integrated into the larger community through classes and workshops in renowned artists’ studios, use of local labs and gyms, performances with Shakespeare & Company, field trips to events and museums in the Northeast, and international travel.
Last updated January 25, 2026.
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