Our Mission
To inspire children with a love of learning through meaningful experiences
strengthening their cognitive, emotional and social abilities, according to their
own individuality and developmental stages of childhood.
We believe in educating the whole child to think, feel, and will with depth,
confidence, and purpose.
Our Vision
To create impact on our students foundation to be critical thinkers, compassionate citizens, contributors to a sustainable society and self directed individuals who embrace who they are meant to be and are ready to meet challenges and opportunities.
Our Values
Values Rudolf Steiner foundation
The inspiration of our curriculum is guided by our understanding of
human development, according to the insights of Rudolf Steiner.
The pace, priorities, and practices of our program, Early Childhood
through Primary School, grow out of this foundation.
Integral approach
We believe that our Integral approach which incorporates art, crafts,
permaculture, movement and academic studies within a nature-
based holistic school will guarantee optimal learning environments
and will help our students to develop healthy foundations, skills,
resilience and knowledge.
Experiential
We rely on a teaching process that facilitates the learning of
knowledge and skills at each developmental stage, in an
experiential way first, gradually allowing the specific content to be
integrated into the curriculum at a more cognitive level.
Interdisciplinary learning
We work on learning from an interdisciplinary perspective, because it
emphasises the connections between disciplines or ‘subjects’instead
of limiting learning to a content area in a parcelled way. It is via this
approach that the most complex knowledge can be appreciated in
different contexts.
Outdoor learning
As a Rural School in Nature, our approach includes a range of
experiences and activities and the opportunity to use the natural
environment as the basis for teaching key competencies.
Inclusion and diversity
Arbol Madre Holistic School strives to be a diverse and actively
engaged school community where all experiences and perspectives
are welcome. We acknowledge that diversity and inclusion touch
every aspect and corner of our community and that growth is an
ongoing process that calls for resolute commitment, collaboration,
and mutual respect.
Independence in education
Arbol Madre Holistic School School views self-determination in its
educational and governance practices as essential to the vitality of
its vision and mission thus is an independent school free of
government curricular standards or intervention.
Dual inmersion language learning
We practise a process called “two-way” or “dual language
immersion in order to learn Spanish and English in a balanced
way to become bilingual and biliterate in both languages by the
end of primary education. In this method students are immersed
in Spanish and English, each for approximately 50% of the day.