THE START

It was 1984. A group of us had been meeting, meditating, talking about getting a school going. At the time of the first concrete planning meeting, an early September evening, I had a baby four days old (I guess I was not present!). What sort of school would we like? How would we run it? Where? I wasn’t deeply involved at this stage. Our older two children were in the state school in Kinloss, but our five-year-old, Stephen, and later our daughter Sara, would be pupils.

A year later, the first two classes of a Steiner school opened, following on from a Steiner-based playgroup. The venue was the Family House; there were 15 children and the Foundation supported the teachers. Fees were minimal and the parents were deeply involved in running the school. Five terms later the school moved to Drumduan House, following months of intense parental activity altering, plumbing, decorating, doing anything that needed to be done. Though a Steiner school, it was deeply influenced by the heart-centred being of the Findhorn Foundation Community.

Diana Brockbank