The Sloyd School

The Sloyd School offers instruction in traditional hand-tool woodworking using the Sloyd method to elementary and high school students in Jacksonville, Florida.

Sloyd Class, the foundation of The Sloyd School’s offerings, runs throughout the school year and is open to students ages 8-18.

From their first session, students are at work making useful and beautiful things while learning the fundamentals of traditional woodworking. The tenets of the Sloyd method—instruction individualized for each student, new tools and skills introduced in careful sequence, student learning accomplished through the making of useful and interesting projects (models), and finished products consisting entirely of the student’s own work—guide the method of this workshop-style class, as all the students work their way through the series of models at their own pace, while the instructor works with each of them in turn.