Steiner School Certificate (SSC)

This is a secondary school qualification, owned and quality-managed by the Federation of Rudolf Steiner Waldorf Schools in New Zealand Inc, who will accredit providers (normally schools) to deliver the programme, and who will award the Steiner School Certificate level 3.

The qualification aims to certify those students who undertake, and achieve in, a learning programme in a Rudolf Steiner pedagogical context (usually a school) which seeks to develop the skills, knowledge, capabilities and attitudes required for post-secondary school life, including work and/or further university or other tertiary study.

The target student is primarily, but not exclusively, Year 13 students who have moved through 4 years (Years 9-12) of the Steiner high school curriculum, participating in a range of compulsory components, and who are wishing to have certified their achievements in the whole of the final year's learning programme, which includes compulsory courses.

Steiner/Waldorf Education focuses on the whole child – it stimulates the mind with the full spectrum of traditional academic subjects; it nurtures healthy emotional and social development through child-centered learning and guides physical development through a broad range of artistic, movement, and craft activities.