My background is in the Arts. I’ve always been quite creative and I just love experimenting with different materials. As well as a Kindergarten Assistant, I’m also a freelance Stained Glass Artist and run workshops locally to help people learn the traditional craft. And as if that is not enough, I am a keen writer […]

I work as a teacher in Kindergarten from Monday to Thursday.

In my 20s I moved to a magical place called Esalen in California, which is where I first encountered education that was not mainstream.  When my first daughter was born, we were lucky enough to find a Steiner parent-and-child group, which really inspired us as a family.  We were living in Bath at the time, […]

My name is Niki Hurst and I am a Kindergarten teacher at Nant-y-Cwm. I began my journey with the school fifteen years ago as a parent. I found an immediate connection with the Waldorf curriculum, which places respect and an understanding of the needs of the developing child at its heart. I began work as […]