The Tutors
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Freddy Walston - Maple 6-8yrs
Has experience working within mainstream, Waldorf schools, and outdoor education including Forest school and Reggio Emilia. He has a masters in early years education, and a keen interest in music, cooking, anthropology, science and nature.
He also has experience working with SEN children.
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Richard Holden - Silver Birch 8-10yrs
Richard has worked in education for over thirty years. He taught Maths and Music in the 1990s before training as a Steiner Waldorf teacher and first joined the Brighton Steiner school as a class teacher in 2002. Since then he has worked both as teacher and advisor in Waldorf schools across the UK, including thirteen years teaching within Brighton.
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Damien O'Donnell - Redwood 10-12yrs
Damien has been working in Waldorf education since 2016 teaching a variety of subjects like Bothmer movement, Photography and main lessons, after completing his Steiner Waldorf teacher training he embarked as a class teacher in 2022 and hasn’t looked back since. At Green Oak Damien is the class teacher for Redwood (11-12 yrs) while also teaching History and Natural Sciences. Before becoming a teacher Damien worked in engineering and also as a machinist for a local denim company. He holds a degree in photography and engineering as well as being a qualified blacksmith and woodworker.
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Simon Pascoe - Ash 12-16yrs
I am a qualified teacher with a PGCE specialising in drama with seven years of experience following a thirty year career in the arts. I have a degree in art history and have taught across the humanities in state schools, at the Brighton Waldorf School and for three years in an international school. I am an AQA GCSE examiner.
At Green Oak I am guardian and tutor for Ash (12-16).
My classroom is collaborative and inclusive; I teach through inspiration, engaging students with enthusiasm and humour, communicating understanding through demonstration and self-directed learning. I treat my students with respect and integrity and this pays off in their trust in me.
I value extra-curricular activities as a means of broadening students’ knowledge and understanding, utilising other disciplines e.g. art, music, history, and world cultures, to inform and strengthen my teaching practice.
Together with fellow teacher Caitlin Easterby we are co-director/lead artists of international arts group Red Earth and have created performances in Europe, Japan, Java and Mongolia. Our interdisciplinary method of working has inspired our teaching and our enthusiasm for integrated education.

Caitlin Easterby Ash 12-16yrs
Caitlin is an advocate for integrative, regenerative education where students are inspired to make connections across traditionally divided subjects, engaging directly with their learning through practical experience. Caitlin has been involved in Waldorf, Home and Environmental education for over 20 years. From 2017-24 she taught Middle and Upper school Drama at The Brighton Waldorf School inspiring students to devise original productions through their own research and creative practice. She is currently a GCSE AQA examiner.
Caitlin is also a multi disciplinary artist/educator and Co director of Red Earth Environmental Arts, who for the past 25 years have developed collaborative projects bringing artists, ecologists, archaeologists, geologists, historians and local communities together to create participatory events, sculpture installations and performances in the landscape. www.redearth.co.uk
Caitlin has a first class honours degree in English and Cultural Community Studies from Sussex University where she taught the CCE Art and Environment course. She is passionate about taking academic research, teaching, writing, making and her love of folk song out into the fields and forests where her heart lies. She’s thrilled to be teaching in Stanmer again where unique opportunities to learn outdoors allow young people to reconnect with nature and the living world essential for their wellbeing and growth aswell as their knowledge and understanding.
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Maddy Pettitt Ash 12-16yrs
Maddy is our Art & Craft Tutor and DDSL.
She has Lived in Brighton for 40 yrs, worked at the Brighton Waldorf School for 25 yrs. She has taught clay modelling, handwork and for the last 15 yrs GCSE Art, was the Deputy Safeguarding Lead and upper school chair and has been involved in the pastoral care of many teenagers.
She has a BA degree in Ceramics.
Passionate about learning through creating and observation & helping young people achieve this.