List of Alternative/Green Schools??

[LazyWoman]

Hi,

Sorry if this has come up before - but is there a list of alternative/green schools I can access?

Thanks

just bumping this for you. where are you?
there's a school in the woods outside bath, in freshford. then there are the STEINER lot - see other threads - and the dharma school in brighton.I always fancied that for my dds but we live in london.

Contact www.hse.org.uk/ (human scale education) who may be able to help.

my ds1 went to the nursery unit of \link{http://www.park-school.info\parkschool} (human scale education) i can't recommend it highly enough - life changing!
you may also be interested in montessori or steiner schools. there is a place called penn green ( i think) which is based on the \link{http://zerosei.comune.re.it/inter/reggiochildren.htm\reggio schools}
which area are you for?

there's a lush montessori one in oxford

\link{http://www.stchris.co.uk/cgi-bin/news.cgi?section=general&filename=20010213-4&older=1\ St Christophers?}

Great list, shrubs.

Am going to add two links though

The excellent \link{http://www.openwaldorf.com/\openwaldorf}, which is written by a slightly skeptical Steiner/Waldorf (same thing, 2 different names) parent.

Just to say, each steiner/waldorf school is independent of each other, they all "feel" very different. I went to a Steiner kindergarten and it was pretty hardcore, so was quite skeptical, but our local Steiner kindergarten is basically a hub for hippy/alternative parents.

Also, has anyone posted \link{http://www.summerhillschool.co.uk/\Summerhill}?

What is it with me? I can kill threads like nobody's business!

I was going to add Summerhill but thought it might be too alternative!

wow! didn't even realise anything like summerhill existed! that made interesting reading.

This might be of interest to you, although not a list of schools it has some interesting info relating to gren/environmental education and the whole site is about sustainable living \link{http://www.greenchoices.org/schools.html\ Green choices for schools and education}

You might also be interested in \link{http://www.roundsquare.org/whoweare.htm\ Round Square Schools}

it really depends what you are looking for eg age/area/finance/academicornot etc

Hi,

thanks for all your help - I'll check out the links!

LazyWoman

Lewes New School is alternative and very eco-friendly if it is anywhere near you. As the name suggests it's in Lewes, East Sussex.

Hi again & thanks for all your input,

I've checked out all the links I wasn't already aware of. We currently live in West Sussex and are planning a possible move to Southsea/Portsmouth in Hampshire. There doesn't seem to be a huge amount of choice about, especially for older children. I'm going to have to get my thinking cap on here.

The Summerhill site makes interesting reading although I can't find their fees published anywhere. Also, wasn't there a documentary a couple of years ago about AS Neill and an educational experiment he undertook (was it the flower children or something?) If my memory serves me well, the project was a complete failure and it was abandoned. Was this the same person or somebody else?

Bye for now...