The movement behind the school traces its origins to the core of the historical establishment of research-based Pedagogics at the University of Jena in 1927 by Professor Peter Petersen.
That is a school that takes as its primary reasons the individual potential for practical and theoretical learning, communal responsibility and democratic skills.
Therefore this tenet of the New School define those who receives and guides the initiative of the motivated pupil into knowledge/practice/skills/wisdom as teacher.
In all New Schools there are a common place, now called the Ring, that functions as a kind of old Norse Thing, or parliament.
Once a week a regular school-meeting is held where issues of concern are discussed, processed and decided.