The Class Two Child

class 2 girlsThe eight year-old child continues to reside in a largely self-created psychological landscape, which derives from the child’s faculty for developing individualised thought pictures from the realms of their inner life. The events and experiences of the outside world are filtered through the child’s imagination and rearranged to accord with the child’s homogenous world-picture. The children show greater alertness in noting what happens around them at this age. The mood of wholeness differentiates into contrasts such as a deeper, more conscious feeling for the religious element alongside a tempting awareness of the mischievous.

The curriculum content for this age serves to cultivate in the child a sense for the breadth and richness of the language of the feelings and emotions.

Cognitively the child continues to be at home in a learning context where pictorial thought content is to the fore. Concepts are best understood meaningfully when they are mobile and organic in quality. The pupils continue to familiarise themselves with the fundamentals of numeracy and literacy, while in gross and fine motor movements - whether through skipping, catching and throwing a ball, or knitting, crocheting or flute-playing - they develop a repertoire of skills and competencies, that were initially introduced in Class 1. Thus the intellect is allowed to awaken through the artistic approach.

In Class 2 pupils, the adult teeth continue to push through, laterality and dominance are firmly established and during this year, specific learning needs and difficulties are observable. The range of abilities within a class becomes clearly discernible. Much of the confidence and sense of belonging which Class 2 pupils exude is clearly due to the fact that the child is building on the foundations laid in Class 1.
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Class Two Main Lessons
  • Animal Fables - English
  • Mathemagics - Maths
  • Air and Water - HSIE, Science
  • Celtic Stories - English
  • Place Value - Maths
  • Fire and Rock - HSIE, Science
  • Saint Stories - English
  • Revision - Maths
  • Aboriginal Stories and Camp - HSIE, PDHPE, English
  • Celtic Stories - English
  • Money - Maths
  • Play - English, Creative Arts
Middle & Afternoon lesson overview download here (18kb)