A WORLDWIDE teaching movement is coming to East Lancashire after founders secured premises for a September start date.

The team setting up Steiner Waldorf Kindergarten have secured a lease at Bashall Eaves Hall in Clitheroe and will be welcoming youngsters aged three to seven from September 8.

The hall, which has not been used for some time, is currently being redecorated and made safe by the team.

There will be an open day in the coming weeks.

Steiner Waldorf offers an alternative to mainstream education and bases its educational ethos around a much more relaxed way of teaching.

And by ditching text books, moving away from academia and concentrating on more artistic and practical activities, it is a distinct alternative to the mainstream state education system.

Waldorf education addresses a range of intelligences rather than subjects: moral, imaginative, practical and emotional.

It homes in on a need for children to "impart meaning to their lives."

Organiser Jane Robson said: "We are delighted to have found this location and are really looking forward to setting this up as we are sure there will be a strong demand."

Parent and toddler groups have already been running at Withgill Fold, Clitheroe, for four years.

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