Sophia Mundi is an inner city multi-campus school that develops and offers learning experiences based on the educational principles of Rudolf Steiner.

The first Steiner School opened in Stuttgart, Germany in 1919. It was an attempt to begin to heal the terrible social ills of the day, in the aftermath of the First World War. It was part of a social impulse, based on the same tenets as those of the French revolution: liberty, equality, fraternity. Except now, liberty was to pertain to freedom for the individual in matters of the spirit: in education, in religion. Fraternity, or brotherhood, would apply in relation to our economic, material responsibilities towards one-another, and equality in matters of rights and the law.

Steiner saw that for individuals to be a confident and a potent force in the future they would need to be educated in a way that kept their ‘spirit’ free, their ‘hearts’ warm and their ‘will’ active. Art and science would work together in this education.

Sophia Mundi was founded in 1985 in Richmond, Melbourne. Amongst the founding parents of Sophia Mundi were people whose own work was in the artistic and healing professions. They included artists, architects, nurses, social workers, healers. They worked for an education to support the free spiritual growth of their children. They envisaged Sophia Mundi as a place resounding with music, sounds of children playing freely, of artisans workshops, a place of strong community, woven into the surrounding community.

We have recently taken significant steps into our community. Our services to family health and care of young children are growing. Our weaving into the wider community has expanded with the primary school move to the Abbotsford Convent and our secondary school now has considerable space to grow into and fill with artistic activity, drama and life.
As adults we are challenged daily to find a balance between our enthusiastic individual initiatives and our need for tolerance and kindness towards one another.
The children and students remind us that we have a common goal.

Contact

www.sophiamundi.vic.edu.au
enquiries@sophiamundi.vic.edu.au

Telephone 03 9419 9229

Primary Campus
St Marys
1 St Heliers Street
Abbotsford 3067
p. 9419 9229
f. 9419 8035

Secondary Campus
95 Nicholson Street
Abbotsford 3067
p. 9416 3011
f. 9419 7977

Playgroup
The Cottage, Secondary Campus.

The following events are a fabulous opportunity to view our classrooms, be amazed by the students beautiful work and talk to experienced Steiner teachers.

School Tours
Phone 9419 9229 to book in for our next school tour.