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 To help each and every student progress towards becoming free, responsible and caring individuals able to impart purpose and direction to their own lives and as citizens able to contribute in manifold as well as unique ways to human society
“Receive the child in reverence
Educate him in love
Let him go forth in freedom”
Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925)
Taikura
There are several possibilities of translation, all of them relevant to what we hope to embody at our school.
 ‘Taikura’ is the heartwood of trees with red wood. If you contemplate our School logo you will see that it is heart-like. It is an open-hearted receptive gesture, composed of forms that are dynamic and suggestive of flames or of growth.
We would hope that qualities that engender warmth and open-heartedness are alive in this school; enthusiasm, courage, interest in each other and in the world.
‘Tai’ can be translated as currents (of influence, of emotion, of sensibility), as streams (of consciousness, of philosophy), as ocean tides, as tides of life. This is a word that expresses movement and that is what learning is; a moving forward, a journey of growth, change, transformation. It happens in the meeting of ideas, in conversations, in questions where people experience each other’s individuality and difference. We welcome the different cultural streams that meet in the school and the aliveness and new possibilities this engenders.
‘Kura’ can be interpreted as a red glow, as a treasured possession, or as a sanctum of learning. It is also a sacred ochre, the pigment which comes from the blood that flowed in the separation of Rangi and Papa. This gave birth to humanity. As human beings we stand between heaven and earth. As spiritual beings on a human journey we are entrusted with the guardianship of this planet and with finding our task for ourselves and in our service to humanity. This is the task of our education and our hope for the students who leave the school.
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