The Rudolf Steiner Schule Biel is at Schützengasse in Biel. It takes children from a playgroup at three years and a kindergarten from four, then through the lower level in Classes 1 to 6 and the upper level in Classes 7 to 9, before students move on to further schools. Teaching is in German, with particular support for French-speaking pupils in this bilingual city. The school works in epoch blocks and in three-year class groupings, and runs practical periods in farming and animal husbandry at the Falbringenhof.