Former pupils of Edinburgh Steiner School

Former Pupil Longest Serving Food Bank Driver

Bill Irving, now retired (kind of) continues to give his time to Edinburgh Food Project for a seventh year running. He attended Edinburgh Steiner School from the age of 4 in Kindergarten all the way through to eighteen, graduating in 1963. Below is Bill and his classmates.

Alumnus:

'Edinburgh opened up the world to me as a teenager', says Outlander star Sam Heughan He's become hot property thanks to his role as Jamie Fraser in the phenomenally popular Outlander series – but Sam Heughan has said moving to Edinburgh as a teenager shaped him into the person he is today.

Steiner pupils contribute to book on play, published by Routledge Creative Media & the Arts

Pupil Sonny McLeod, alumni Christina Grohmann and Layla Tree (now a Board member), as well as longstanding teacher, Alistair Pugh, from Edinburgh Steiner School offer contrasting perspectives from the fields of health, education and the creative and performing arts.

The book’s cover is an illustration by former pupil Lizzy Mikietyn - Cartoonist

See the comments below for a 30% discount offered to the Steiner Waldorf community by co-author (and ESS parent), Julia Whitaker.

Authored by a graduate of ESTEC, who is now Class 3’s Teacher (on his second term, with 16 years at the chalkface) and member of the School’s Digital Literacy Group.

Minding the Gap - one Steiner Waldorf Teacher's perspective on the "Digital Divide": edsteiner.org/digital-divide

Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship UK

The pupils under Penny Reid's wing, stretching more than two decades, have been awarded the highest marks for their portfolios, and many have gone on to Art School after leaving the school gates and become artists and designers.

Beautiful exhibition at Union Gallery by our longstanding Advanced Higher and GCSE Art Teacher, Penny Reid, receives rave reviews by HeraldScotland and The Scotsman: edsteiner.org/pen-reid

Two Edinburgh Steiner alumni and two former Edinburgh Steiner parents come together as this trio catch up in the oldest bespoke tailors in the Capital (est 1720) for the next episode of Men in Kilts. A wee trailer:

Men in Kilts Sneak Peek: Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish Visit the Oldest Tailor in Scotland Because it wouldn't be a series on Scottish culture without a little bit of tweed.

Amy van der Ven, Class of 2020, appears in the Channel 4 show 'Mend it for Money', aired on Friday: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/mend-it-for-money/on-demand/70069-003

(Amy's segment begins at 11 mins 8 seconds)

Mend It for Money: Mend It for Money - On Demand Britain's best restorers compete against each other to give objects a new lease of life

A wooden rainbow, or tissue paper window star, is often found in a 'Steiner' family's home.

Children's rainbow pictures have emerged out of the coronavirus pandemic to become a symbol of the 'national spirit' (Queen's Speech, 5th April 2020), helping to maintain morale for children and families in these difficult times as people have taken to sharing versions of the stunning weather phenomenon in their windows to cheer up those suffering through the isolation.

A colourful education: The Steiner rainbow is a longstanding symbol within the educational movement, as an open-ended wooden stacking prop for creative play (used in a myriad of ways - as tunnels and bridges for cars, cots for baby dolls, animal shelters or farm fences), to the study of 'Steiner's Cuurriculum of Colours', to each classroom deliberately and consciously wearing a colour appropriate to that space, the age of the pupils, and what generally takes place in it.

Founder Rudolf Steiner said: “Colour is the soul of nature … and when we experience colour we participate in this soul.”