Mulberry Waldorf School

A nurturing Waldorf community in Kingston, Ontario, offering early childhood programs through Grade 8.

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□ Early Childhood (0–3)
Parent & Infant and Parent & Child programs focused on rhythm, connection, and early development.

□ Kindergarten
A gentle, play-based rhythm rooted in imagination and seasonal life.

□ Grades 1–8
Academic learning integrated with arts, movement, and hands-on experiences.

About Mulberry

Mulberry Waldorf School is a community-rooted independent school guided by Waldorf education principles. We support the development of the whole child through imagination, rhythm, artistic experience, and meaningful connection to the world.

Programs

Early Childhood Programs (0–3)

Parent & Infant (0–12 months)
Gentle weekly gatherings for connection, rhythm, and early parenting support.

Parent & Child (1–3 years)
A shared morning rhythm of free play, songs, story, snack, and outdoor time.

Kindergarten

A home-like environment where children engage in imaginative play, seasonal activities, storytelling, and meaningful rhythm.

Grades 1–8

Academic learning is integrated with arts, music, movement, and experiential learning that supports deep understanding.

Why Waldorf Education

Waldorf education nurtures intellectual, emotional, and physical development through rhythm, creativity, and meaningful engagement with the world.

What Families Say

“A deeply supportive community where our child is known and valued.”

“We felt an immediate sense of belonging and calm.”

Admissions

We welcome families to explore Mulberry through tours and direct conversation.

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Mulberry Waldorf School • Kingston, Ontario

Mulberry Waldorf School

A nurturing Waldorf community in Kingston, Ontario, offering programs from early childhood through Grade 8.

Book a Tour Explore Programs

I am looking for...

Early Childhood (0–3 years)
Parent & Infant and Parent & Child programs designed to support the early years.

Kindergarten
A gentle rhythm of imaginative play, nature, and seasonal activities.

Grades 1–8
Academic learning integrated with arts, movement, and hands-on experiences.

About Mulberry

Mulberry Waldorf School is a community-rooted independent school guided by Waldorf education principles. We value rhythm, creativity, connection, and the unfolding development of each child through imagination, movement, and meaningful learning experiences.

Programs

Parent & Infant (0–12 months)

Gentle weekly gatherings for connection, support, and early parenting community.

Parent & Child (1–3 years)

A shared morning rhythm of free play, songs, story, snack, and outdoor time.

Morning Garden & Kindergarten

Imaginative play, seasonal rhythms, and foundational early childhood experiences.

Grades 1–8

A rich academic and artistic curriculum that integrates thinking, feeling, and doing.

Why Waldorf Education

Waldorf education supports the holistic development of children through imagination, rhythm, and meaningful engagement with the world. Learning is experienced through stories, movement, art, music, and hands-on exploration.

What Families Say

“A warm, grounded community where our child feels known and supported.”

“The rhythm of the school has brought calm and connection to our family life.”

Visit Mulberry

The best way to understand our school is to experience it in person.

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Mulberry Waldorf School • Kingston, Ontario

Grade School at Mulberry

Our unique approach cultivates a love for beauty that is reflected in our  Grades 1-4 and 5-8 curriculum. Inspired most deeply through their feelings, Grade School students respond powerfully to what is beautiful in the world, this feeling for beauty is cultivated by the tools and approaches used in their main lesson work.
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• Rigorous academics
• Screen and phone-free school environment
• Multidisciplinary and experiential curriculum

Morning Lesson

• The morning begins with music and verse, setting a warm and welcoming tone for the day ahead.
• Our two-hour morning lesson is a deep immersion in a particular academic subject, including fine arts, science, mathematics, humanities, language arts, and languages.
• Each morning lesson block lasts three or four weeks and is shaped and the academic material is enlivened by the teacher through music, poetry, painting, drawing, movement, and/or drama.
• Our multi-disciplinary approach allows the student to become fully engaged in the subject matter, stimulating their head, heart, and hands. This ensures that students have a concentrated, in-depth experience with each subject area, while also providing time for integration and reflection before the subjects are reviewed.
• The class teacher delivers the main academic subjects, coordinates with specialty teachers, and provides a link between home and school. Our teachers encourage mutual respect, love, and understanding, and strive to develop each student's full potential.

The Morning Lesson Book
In Waldorf education, a morning lesson book is a handmade notebook that each student creates to record and illustrate the lessons they receive from their teachers. 
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After each lesson, students capture the key concepts and ideas they have learned in these books. The pages include drawings, diagrams, and summaries of the lesson. These colorful, individualized books reflect the progress of each student and are a method of inquiry that increases their capacity for creativity and knowledge. Over time, the morning lesson book becomes a record of a student's academic journey, and a personal treasure that they can keep for years to come. They are a unique and vital part of Waldorf education.

​When our students reach Grade One, they are given a plant.  They water them and watch them grow.  Just as these plants grow and change, so do the children.

We use a multidisciplinary approach that incorporates oral, visual and kinaesthetic learning.

Grade School Morning Lesson Curriculum

​Fine arts are integrated into all subjects
 The Waldorf method of integrating the arts throughout the curriculum, including mathematics and the sciences awakens imagination, and creative and flexible thinking, which brings vitality and wholeness to learning.

• Drama
• Painting
• Music
• Drawing
• Sculpting ​

Science
​Science is taught experientially. The teacher sets up an experiment, then calls upon the students to observe and discuss their findings so that they can understand the underlying scientific principles. This process cultivates observation skills, inquiry, and critical thinking.

The sciences begin with Nature Studies in the early grades. Middle School students experience specific subjects such as:

• Zoology
• Botany
• Chemistry
• Astronomy
• Physiology
• Physics

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Mathematics
​In the early grades, mathematics is introduced through stories, art, song, and movement. Weekly practice is an important element in a strong mathematical foundation.

• Students practice number bonds, the four processes, number problems, and place value daily using manipulatives and movement.
• They progress to learning multiplication tables, solving word problems, measuring, telling time, and working with money.
• Fractions, long division, rounding, and decimals are introduced.
• Mental arithmetic and games are used to help strengthen skills.

In Middle School the focus is on building analytical and critical thinking to prepare students for higher-level math in high school.
In middle school, students learn:

• Business math
• Geometry
• Algebra​

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Humanities
The humanities curriculum begins in Preschool and is developed through the use of great stories of the world which reflects a diversity of cultures and the evolution of humanity. The stories selected at each grade reflect the specific stage of child development and serve as a guide for age appropriate striving and sense of purpose. The humanities curriculum begins in Preschool and Kindergarten with fairy tales and stories from around the world.

 In Grade School, we use a range of stories to teach the humanities curriculum to children. These include:

• Fables
• Indigenous legends
• Creation stories
• Norse and Greek mythologies

Students travel through the full sweep of the world’s cultural heritage including:

• Ancient Roman and Greek cultures
• North and South American, Asian, European, Middle Eastern, and African cultures
• Geography
• History

By experiencing these cultures through their legends, literature, architecture, music, inventions, and art, our students gain a deep understanding and appreciation for the rich diversity of humankind. 

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​Language Arts

In our Early Childhood programs, children develop a rich oral vocabulary through stories, songs, games, and poems. Special attention is given to the development of fine motor skills through activities such as lacing, finger knitting and sewing. In the Grade School, topics, such as letters of the alphabet in Grade 1, are introduced through engaging stories and beautiful art. Learning to read and write is accompanied by daily phonetic work in songs, poems, and games that help to establish a joyful, living experience of the language. Progressive development in language arts is built through a myriad of grammar, spelling, poetry, creative writing, drama, research skills, and diverse literature.

​Grade School Specialties

French
Starting in Grade One, students receive four French classes per week. This nurtures a rich appreciation of the French language, from its use to its pronunciation and culture. 

Students in the primary grades have very strong imitative capacities. The “new” language is primarily experienced through the senses as a combination of sounds and rhythm. Expressions and vocabulary related to the seasons are learned through oral repetition using mime, poem recitation, songs, guessing games, short dialogues, art, and stories. ​ In this way, words and its usage are absorbed in memory through play.

​Slowly and surely, students gain a foundation in diction and intonation as well as progress to written language and grammar.​

Starting in Grade 3, students begin recording some of the information learned so far by heart in their "Cahier de Français". They are invited to observe and describe regularities in the structure of the language and most importantly, play with them! Although grammar is always included in the learning process, it is introduced in Grade 5 in a more explicit way (verb conjugation, spelling rules, sentence structure, etc.). At this stage in life, students start asking the “why and how”, they want more information and they enjoy the new structure of how the language is taught. Still, a large part of the lesson is dedicated to experiencing the living qualities of the language through oral expression in the form of role playing, dialogues, speech exercises and singing. 
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The result is that our students leave Mulberry Waldorf School in Grade 8 being able to communicate, read and write in French. As well students have an appreciation of the cultures that belong to this beautiful language around the world. Our alumni students have shared that they are very well prepared for high school French.

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Handwork
​Handwork has immense benefits for the growing brain as it both trains the awareness and dexterity of both hands and promotes a child’s cognitive development. As children knit, sew or crochet, they are developing fine motor skills that help make their brains stronger and better at mastering new skills and subjects. Throughout Grade One to Grade Eight, students make different items each year, from a braided belt and a knitted recorder case in Grade One to moccasin slippers and pyjama pants in the upper grades. Incorporating handwork into the Waldorf curriculum aligns with our mission to exercise children’s brains in new ways, helping them succeed in other facets of education and life. 

Read: 6 Benefits of Handwork in Waldorf Schools​​

'The handwork and practical arts curriculum in Waldorf Schools stimulates the creative powers, while at the same time it establishes aesthetic confidence through a conscious guidance of the student's developing will . This will is the power within us that allows us, through our deeds, to interact with the world. But most importantly, this will activity lays the foundation for our thinking.'

                                                                                                  David Mitchell

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Music
​According to Rudolf Steiner, the human being is a musical being, and the making of music is essential in experiencing what it is to be fully human. Music education is informed by the stages of childhood development and helps meet the needs of students as they grow. Singing is also infused throughout the day. Students are introduced to different elements of music throughout their education, such as singing in choir, playing recorder, music notation and playing ukulele. Music in the Waldorf curriculum awakens and nurtures the deep inner life of the child.  
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To read an overview of the Waldorf music curriculum, including a brief description of the music activities in each grade according to the understanding of child development, click here.

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Physical Education

​Mulberry Waldorf School’s Physical Education program aims to cultivate a healthy balance of skill development and enjoyment of healthy movement. In the early grades, there is a focus on spatial awareness, as well as fine and gross motor skills through different games that emphasize imagery, story, rhythm and imitation. In the later grades, students learn the nobility of sport through the Ancient Greek games of javelin, discus, long-jumping, wrestling and running. Students are then introduced to team sports such as soccer, volleyball and basketball after they have learned the importance of working with each other, rather than against. All students are encouraged to participate in all aspects of Physical Education.

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The best way to understand Waldorf education is to see it in action. ​We’d love to show you what makes Mulberry different.

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