About the school.

After several years in the planning, a committed group of parents and teachers worked to open Tarremah School in 1988. For the first 4 years the school was situated in a house in Warneford Street, South Hobart. The need to expand resulted in the school moving to its current site in 1992.

Tarremah now offers an educational program from early childhood, including playgroup, to middle school (Year 8). We have a teaching staff of 15 full and part time teachers and 230 students from Kinder to Year 8.

Historical background to Steiner Schools

Dr Rudolf Steiner, born in Austria in 1861, was a scientist, philosopher and educator who, in 1919, founded the first Waldorf School in Stuttgart. He formulated a curriculum and structure which has inspired the steady growth of an educational movement now represented by over 800 schools world wide. There are more than 40 Steiner (after Dr Steiner) or Waldorf (after the first school) schools in Australia.

Steiner schools value and promote a love of learning, the ability to lead a meaningful life, the development of a moral sense based upon truth, beauty and goodness and the ability to assume responsibility for one's individual destiny.

In the words of Rudolf Steiner:

"Our highest endeavour must be to develop free human beings, who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives'."