Waldorf School Moving to Bed Stuy Church
The blog A Child Grows in Brooklyn served up some big news yesterday: Apparently the Brooklyn Waldorf School, which has been located on St. Felix Street in Fort Greene for the last few years, has finally found a permanent home. The progressive K-8 program will take over the Claver Castle at 19 Claver Place between…
The blog A Child Grows in Brooklyn served up some big news yesterday: Apparently the Brooklyn Waldorf School, which has been located on St. Felix Street in Fort Greene for the last few years, has finally found a permanent home. The progressive K-8 program will take over the Claver Castle at 19 Claver Place between Franklin and Bedford Avenues in Bed Stuy. The castle is part of the St. Peter Claver Church across the street at 29 Claver Place. According to A Child Grows, the new space will enable the school to expand up to grade 8 and to offer a range of new programs including woodworking, athletics and farming. Rogers Marvel Architects is already working away on the master plan and the school hopes to open in September 2011.
Brooklyn Waldorf A New Home? [A Child Grows via TRD] GMAP
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“the new space will enable the school to expand up to grade 8 and to offer a range of new programs including woodworking, athletics and farming.”
Have a go at it, rob.
im not sure why you would think i have a problem with that.
*rob*
Aquaculture then…
Catholic School on the same block as my house closed a couple of years ago and was finally replaced this year by Brooklyn Dreams charter school. They did a huge reno on it and are still finishing building some of it but the school is open and looks to be at full action.
Grand Pa – you mean after the inevitable tsunami has wiped out brownstone Brooklyn and deposited 10ft deep fertile alluvial silt?
and I thought they would have classes in salad making.
Farming skills shouldl come in handy in Central Brooklyn come 2012.
It is too bad that the Catholic schools are closing at such a fast clip. This one has been closed for a long time, but each year there are a few more on the block. They provide a solid, affordable alternative to public and private schools.
Ditto – your pottery experience sounds very similar to mine.
Good for them.
Too bad the Catholic church (in ny) looks like they’ve pretty much decided to get out of the school business. All these empty schools. Catholic schools don’t have the best reputation but they provided a solid education at a reasonable cost to a lot of kids, including me.
woodworking was my favorite class, along with pottery which always ended up in a disaster my mum pretended to be grateful to have on the sideboard.