In 1998, a group of very active parents succeeded in forming the basis of a Rudolf Steiner school in Roskilde. There had been 4 – 5 Rudolf Steiner kindergartens in and around Roskilde for a number of years and it was a great wish of the parents there that their children could continue at a Rudolf Steiner school. This group of parents had for several years arranged several lectures on the stone pedagogy and there was great interest in founding a new school.

The first premises were found at one end of Roskilde Vandrehjem – also called Hørgården. The school’s first name was Rudolf Steiner School Roskilde. The economy was tight, so everything that was needed should preferably be provided for free or almost for free – from school furniture to clips.
Now a steady stream of students, and thus teachers, began to flow to the school, the classes got bigger and bigger and when a new class was added every year, Hørgården soon became too small. A new school was to be built which could accommodate the growing number of pupils and the choice fell on a lovely green meadow in the brand new district; Three crowns, close to RUC and three crowns Station.
In 2001, the first sod was cut and during the winter holidays of 2002, the school moved to the architecturally exciting newly built school in Trekroner. The school was officially inaugurated in September 2002 and at the same time changed its name to Kristofferskolen.

The school started with an overall kindergarten class / 1. class and a 2nd class; 19 children in total. The school has since grown by one class each year. In 2007, the first 10th grade left school. Kristofferskolen is now a 10-year one-track school, where the classes are passed undivided from kindergarten class to 9th grade.

THE FIRST RUDOLF STEINERSKOLE
In 1919, a new school was founded in Stuttgart on the basis of Rudolf Steiner’s pedagogical and anthroposophical ideas. The school was funded by the Waldorf-Astoria cigarette factories, primarily for the children of the factory workers. Hence the name; Waldorf schools , which are now used in most of the world.

A WORLDWIDE SCHOOL MOVEMENT
Today, there are Waldorf schools all over the world. Distributed in 60 different countries, there are 1,026 schools, 2,000 kindergartens and 646 special education centers. It is the largest non-governmental school movement in the world.