Class 6 Prav

Hear about the Lower School Years

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‘I do, I feel, I think’

Activity – empathy – intellect

Formal learning begins at six, with a class teacher who will teach and care for them for up to eight years.

• Learning is brought with imaginative and powerful stories, appropriate for the age and learning tasks
• Learning is supported by art, rhythmic activities, singing  and movement
• French and German are taught from age 6, through conversation, games, songs and rhymes.
• Academic subjects are developed to meet the child’s inner developmental needs and to support their growing awareness of the world around them
• Teaching is an art, not a technique
• Learning is an active process, involving observation and experience

Main Lessons

• Two hour morning blocks are taught in 3 or 4 week blocks of age appropriate subjects
• Literacy and numeracy teaching are incorporated into these blocks
• Learning is consolidated with recall and artistic work
• Singing, music, painting, movement are used as learning tools not just skills
• Children produce their own main lesson workbooks as they draw, write about and record their learning process
• Science is introduced from observation and experience