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Class 5

The students are turning 11 years old in class 5. They are coming to the threshold between the light of childhood and the relative 'darkness' of adolescence, which is also sometimes called the 'twilight of innocence'.

The quality of teaching needs to reflect the essence of the historical Greek culture with the elements of beauty and logic as equally important.

The generative impulse is the Greek world. Stories bring the Gods, architecture and the devotion to the physical body to the eleven year old child. The student is beginning to develop an understanding of time and space, body image and to take on individual tasks and research.

Logic and reason are emerging elements beside the guiding authority, which always have to be brought to the student imbued with beauty and based on truth.

The 11 year old child becomes capable of a new objectivity and it is healthy to allow the beginning of questioning of authority.

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Visual Art The visual arts include watercolour painting and 3D carving. Craft Craft includes pottery, clothes design and papier mache. Performing Art The performing arts teaches dance, choir, mime and pantomime. Technical Studies This includes kiln firing and book binding. Due to conducting combined 5 and 6 classes please look also at class 6 -> Curriculum Subjects In The Different Key Learning Areas For Class 5 and 6.

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