Waldorf School Chia near Bogota

The Monte Cervino School is a formal education institution, approved by the National Chamber of Education. In order to contribute to the human education of children and teenagers, the school has based its activities on the Waldorf pedagogy.

In 1984 this Project started in Bogotá by means of the opening of the “Mis Buhíts" kindergarden. From that moment until 2001 it contributed to enhance the preschool education of 1.200 children who were provided with human education, love and acceptance.

In 1995, with the purpose of carrying out the Project in elementary school, it owned a plot about 4.000 m² in Tíquiza, down the road of Chía, 30 minutes from the capital city center. In February 1998 the Monte Cervino country school started to develop its activities in Chía with 1st and 2nd graders.

During the second semester of 1998, after having attended a lecture about Waldorf Education, the promoters of the project decided to put into practice with their students a self-building process based on this pedagogy due to the fact that they got the feeling that they could fulfill a lot of expectations coming from children and their parents. All those expectations were based on a human education, love and development and learning in a natural environment.

After that, the Monte Cervino country school led its own path towards a constant change based on the Waldorf pedagogy having as a vision to consolidate as a Waldorf School for the children in Bogotá. We got support from the Centro Humanístico Micael, the Waldorf Schools Isolda Echavarría, Rudolf Steiner and Arca Mundial in Medellín, Luis Horacio Gómez School in Cali and the Waldorf Social and Education Corporation of Bogotá.

Currently the school has a kindergarden and class 1-9 with a total of 70 children. We have 13 teachers, a therapist and six people in charge of administrative tasks and general services.

There is a study group which is formed by some teachers, parents and supporters working since 1999 having a main goal to achieve self-education and delve into the basis of Waldorf pedagogy.

Facing the economic and political problems of Colombia, the bad social habits led by the consumism and the cultural decadence promoted by foreign models are problems not easy to deal with. Parents have been the main support of the school and their children have been our motivation to keep on working with enthusiasm during nine years. These people are the most valuable gift that the educational community has.

Manuel Herrera