We offer integrated care and educational services to young people aged 3 to 25.
In our art room, students engage in a variety of processes including printmaking, paper making, painting and weaving. Students work on projects throughout the year, including creating Christmas cards, printing tote bags, and the workshop even designed Murtle Market’s logo!
Our wood workshop, our children and young people make useful items such as handles for tools, baseball bats or legs for a stool or bench. For these, they turn green wood on a pole lathe and use other techniques to create beautiful products. They often carve bowls and spoons but also work on their own ideas – we’ve seen superheroes and Hogwarts coming out of the workshop.
We have several looms in our weavery, which our children and young people learn to use. They find the peaceful atmosphere and often rhythmical activity to be beneficial, making beautiful table runners, bags, tablecloths and other items. They also card wool and weave baskets.
The felt workshop, which has a therapeutic focus, engages students in both wet felting and needle felting to make amazing products like wall hangings, felted animals or plants, bags, hot water bottle holders and fairy light flowers. The felt workshop uses the wool from sheep that live on our farm wherever possible.
In our pottery workshop, every student takes a turn on the pottery wheel and gets involved with beadmaking, brickmaking, art projects and clay recycling. The mugs used in Murtle Market have all been made by our young people in the pottery workshop!
This workshop gives our students the opportunity to work with different techniques in metal and jewellery. From copper bowls and Tibetan sound bowls to wax and bronze casting, jewellery from recycled glass and wire, to key rings and decorative objects, outputs are very varied.
The candle workshop is a seasonal workshop where candles in different colours, shapes and sizes are made. Mainly active in the lead-up to Christmas, the candles are often gifted to the families of our young people or sold at our craft exhibitions.
Across our estates, we have three large gardens that produce fruit and vegetables for our residential houses. In these gardens, our young people learn how to sow, plant, maintain and develop all aspects of land cultivation.
On the farm, students help look after our cows and calves, pigs, sheep, chickens, pygmy goats and alpacas. They also support staff by mucking out stables, preparing feeds, collecting eggs, stacking wood, moving animals or walking alpacas.
As we offer a wide range of equine therapies and have an onsite farm, a range of horses live on our estate. This means we have stables and indoor and outdoor sand arenas for the horses to enjoy.
The young people are involved in looking after the horses and their environment, which includes feeding and grooming as well as keeping the stables and arenas clean.
Our students get involved in ongoing projects on our grounds to give them ownership of their environment. Tasks can vary from raking leaves, pruning, clearing or building paths, planting bulbs and sowing grass. Often this happens in a group setting, which focuses on social interaction.
Our bike repair workshop repairs bikes that have either been donated or brought in by members of our community and other organisations such as Police Scotland.
Students learn how to repair and maintain all aspects of bikes, including fixing punctures, replacing brakes or wheels, and cleaning the bikes.
FRUVER is our internal distribution centre that delivers organic fruit and vegetables – some from our gardens – and a wide range of dried goods to buildings across our estate.
Our young people make up the orders, weigh, refill and deliver goods to our residential houses by foot and cargo bike.
The public-facing arm of FRUVER, Murtle Market, is our sustainable social enterprise refillery, shop, café, and heritage hub. Students are involved in serving customers on the tills, stamping the Murtle Market logo on takeaway cups, creating the art that’s displayed, and tending to the gardens in which the fruit and veg grows.
Central Office
Murtle Estate
Bieldside
Aberdeen
AB15 9EP
General Enquiries:
office@crss.org.uk
Admissions Enquiries:
admissionshub@crss.org.uk
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Camphill Rudolf Steiner Schools Limited is a Scottish charity known as Camphill School Aberdeen. A Limited Company registered in Scotland.Registered Office: Brodies House 31-33 Union Grove Aberdeen AB10 6SD.
Correspondence Address: CSA, Murtle Office, Murtle Estate, Bieldside, Aberdeen. Registered Company No. SC103899 Registered Charity No. SC015588.
