Ringwood Waldorf School
The Ringwood Waldorf School is a private alternative school standing on the borders of Dorset and Hampshire, with classes ranging from Kindergarten to the Upper school. It educates according to the principles of Steiner Waldorf Education and has an enrollment of over 240 students. History The school was founded in 1974 by Christine Polyblank on receiving a letter in which Alex Baum of the Camphill Sheiling Schools requested her to start a Waldorf school for the children of their co-workers. It began in a row of labourers' cottages – "Folly Farm" –and opened with six pupils. New teachers and pupils rapidly joined the school and it had to move into temporary buildings. After 1980, the school began to develop its high school and by 1988 planned and built its own buildings on the piece of land where it now stands, Folly Farm, that it received from the Sheiling Trust. Campus Today the school has a modern purpose-built campus designed by Keir Polyblank, the husband of founder Christine Polyblank. He took responsibility for almost all aspects of the new build; the design, planning permission, four kindergartens, 12 classrooms, an art studio, science lab and multi-purpose hall besides some dedicated rooms for