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 Level1. 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 motivate students to achieve their potential and to develop the skills, knowledge, capabilities and attitudes required for the senior years of secondary schooling, as well as post-secondary school life, including work and/or further university or other tertiary study. The target student is primarily, but not exclusively, Year 11 students who have moved through 2 years )Years 9-10) of the Steiner high school curriculum, and who are wishing to have certified their achievements in the whole of the year's learning programme, which is made up predominantly of compulsory courses.

Graduates of the Steiner School Certificate Level 1 will have a firm foundation for the final two years of Steiner education (Classes 11 and 12). They will have persisted in a very broad range of activities and subject matter, have learnt to balance and reflect on what comes towards them, and have sensitivity to independent, alternative or creative views of the world. Graduates at SSC level 1 will have demonstrated the ability to work at directed activities, solve familiar problems in supervised contexts, and to transfer learning across a range of situations. They will typically have developed the ability to express their own beliefs, feelings and opinions clearly and with openness to the views of others.

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Enrolled as a Year 11 (Class 10) student (or above) in a registered and approved Steiner institution (refer QMS Accreditation Section 3); Minimum age 16 years.