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The Sheiling School, Ringwood is part of the Camphill Movement,
founded in 1940 in Aberdeen, Scotland. All Camphill Communities work to
create environments in which
vulnerable children and adults, many with learning difficulties, can live, learn and work
with others in healthy social relationships based on mutual care and respect.
 There are currently over a
hundred Camphill communities in twenty different countries throughout Europe, Africa and
North America. These include schools, centres for further education and training, working
communities with adults, farms, workshops and urban centres. Some of them cater for the
needs of people with mental health problems. Thirty-nine of the centres are in Great
Britain and Ireland.
 The development of the Camphill Movement came about out of the work of
Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), the Austrian thinker, educator and innovator who helped to
bring about a renewal in many fields of professional, cultural and spiritual endeavour in
this century. This includes the discipline of Curative Education (from the German,
Heilpädagogik – ‘education and healing’).
 Dr Karl Konig (1902-1966) the founder of the Camphill Movement,
further developed curative education through the impulse of living in community with
children who have special needs, and includes the observance of the yearly cycle of
Christian festivals.
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