Admission
If you are interested in admitting your daughter or son to Shibumi, please send us an email. We will put you on the Admissions Mailing List, notifying you of admission deadlines and procedures. Note, an email must be sent in July of each academic year to request notification. We do not carry email addresses from the previous year. The admission process normally starts in October for the next academic year.
Since the school programme is not based on a fixed yearly syllabus but on individualized learning, it may be possible for a few older students to be admitted throughout the year, depending on the number and composition of the different vertical groups. We do prefer to admit students who are between 6 and 10 years old.Visiting the school
After reading our website thoroughly, parents and children are encouraged to visit the school and spend time observing the classroom and speaking with teachers about our educational philosophy and approaches. To fix up a convenient time, please contact us by phone or email.
Visitors may stay the whole day to observe the processes at school, but we will be free to talk only at the time specified. If we are informed in advance, visitors are welcome to join us for lunch. As we are a small school, and lunch costs are divided and borne by every person, we would appreciate a small contribution towards the meal.
Admission procedure
When parents are clear that what we offer is something they value, please request for an admission form, by email, by October.
As clarified in the intent, Shibumi is primarily concerned with creating a space where a group of adults—teachers and parents—are educating students in a spirit of self enquiry as explored in the teachings of J. Krishnamurti.
It becomes necessary therefore for parents to familiarise themselves with the educational philosophy of Krishnamurti to see whether they are in agreement with it or not. Reading his works and participating in some of the regular dialogue sessions where what Krishnamurti has said, and the examination, in the spirit of open enquiry, of the educational processes at Shibumi is an essential part of the admission procedure. At the end of this process one hopes that it will become clear to the applicant parents whether they want such a learning programme for themselves and their children. Such a protracted process is unavoidable if we wish to keep the educational programme undiluted, though we can understand parental anxiety and impatience whose primary concern is to see their children admitted to the school.
>