The Holywood Steiner School's Class 3 of 2009-2010 is on line now! Follow the class as it makes its way through the journey that is life in Holywood, Co Down!
As the Class 3 children become more aware of themselves and the physical environment in which they live, a new interest in the practical, material world emerges. After practising their literacy and numeracy skills in Class 2, they can now apply these in a wide range of everyday situations which require measuring of weighing, solving simple problems and the writing of simple formal letters.
By involving the whole class in the experience of working together in building, farming and other examples of work projects, the class teacher helps to transform the initial feeling of separateness from the physical world into a feeling of responsibility for it. It is important for the teachers to lay down clear guidelines for behaviour and to give the children confidence in the authority of teachers, not only the class teachers. The children should have a strong sense of the social unity of the class, an experience of 'we'.
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