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High School Clubs are offered on Wednesday afternoons and run on a trimester schedule. Examples include the AWSNA Entrepreneurship Program, Cooking, Digital Content Creation, Digital Photography, Mindfulness, Newspaper, Personal Finance, Podcasting, Political Discourse, Printmaking, Sports Psychology, Studio Art, Theatre, Yearbook, and Yoga.
Fine arts are taught to every student at every grade level. In high school, a comprehensive fine arts program offers drawing, painting, weaving, clay modeling, printmaking, watercolor, book arts, oil painting, and stone carving. Fiber arts and woodworking are also part of the program, with fiber arts such as knitting, crochet, embroidery, hand-sewing, and machine sewing, and woodworking, blacksmithing, copper and enamel work.
Exchange Program: Students gain language fluency and cultural understanding through our Exchange Program, living with host families while attending Waldorf high schools in Germany, Austria, Spain, Peru, and Chile. The program is designed for direct exchanges within the international Waldorf school system and hosts families for two months during the sophomore year. World languages offerings include Spanish, Spanish for Native Speakers, or Independent Study in Established Language.
Wednesday afternoon High School Clubs include AWSNA Entrepreneurship Program, Cooking, Digital Content Creation, Digital Photography, Mindfulness, Newspaper, Personal Finance, Podcasting, Political Discourse, Printmaking, Sports Psychology, Studio Art, Theatre, Yearbook, and Yoga. After School Music Clubs include Monday All Strings Club, Wednesday Strings Club for Cellists, and Friday Traditional Irish Music Club.
Field Trips & Service Projects: High school students participate in community service annually and take part in service-learning days in the fall and spring. Field trips include experiences such as visits to the US Capitol, museums, DC Central Kitchen, Billy Goat Trail hikes, local observatory trips, and campus-based excursions; grades 9–12 also undertake year-long curricular trips and experiences.
Entrepreneurship Program is offered as a Wednesday high school club. Senior Projects allow independent capstone work, with examples including starting a non-profit, historical research, and other self-designed projects. The high school weekly schedule includes newspaper and other leadership-oriented activities as part of ongoing skills classes such as language and movement, with opportunities like Upper School Musical and elective choices in music.
Athletics offers cross country, soccer, basketball, baseball, and softball, with all high school students required to participate in at least one interscholastic sport; teams compete in the Potomac Valley Athletic Conference. Fall, winter, and spring seasons include soccer and cross country, basketball, and baseball/softball respectively. Mindfulness and Yoga clubs are available, and physical education is complemented by movement and fitness activities as part of the daily schedule.
Washington Waldorf School, located in Bethesda, Maryland, provides an education based on the Waldorf Steiner curriculum for students from eighteen months through twelfth grade. The curriculum integrates arts and physical movement into daily academic lessons; for example, students learn mathematical patterns through rhythmic movement and geometry through precise form drawing. In the lower school, a class teacher typically stays with the same group of students for multiple years to provide continuity. The high school features a four-year lab science sequence and specialized blocks in humanities. A distinctive feature of the school is the "Handwork" and "Practical Arts" program, where all students learn skills such as knitting, sewing, and woodworking to support cognitive and fine motor development. Facilities include specialized spaces for orchestra, a woodworking shop, and outdoor gardening areas. Students study both Spanish and German beginning in the early grades. The school operates as a co-educational day school.
