The Class Six Child Class 6 Doll Making Project During this year, generally the child’s growth begins to express itself in the skeleton. The limbs begin to lengthen the child develops a tendency for awkward, angular movements. The 12 year-old experience the strength of gravity through the skeleton. The physical change is accompanied by the first experience of causation in the thinking realm, while psychologically; the child enters a phase, which may be characterised as the ‘changeling’ period. The 12 year old witnesses what may be described as the death of childhood and the birth pangs of the individual.In the final third of the second seven-year period, the child begins to anticipate adolescence. In the various curriculum topics indicated - sequential, recorded history, the geography of Europe, formal geometry, business maths, phenomenological science, gardening, woodwork and organised games - the child’s changing physical, psychological and cognitive make-up is acknowledged and tended. At this age the teacher aims to work with the children’s growing orientation towards the outer world. Their dawning critical faculties should be directed towards observing the natural world from a scientific standpoint and their increasing interest in social relationships should provide many opportunities for the children to take responsibility for their own class community. The aim is to forge a new social relationship between each other and their teacher. As new capacities for thinking emerge, the children can be led to understand causal relationships at work in the world. The children’s awareness should be directed towards the world they will live and work in as adults. The pupils should be challenged and are capable of high standards in their schoolwork.
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Class Six Main Lessons |
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