Golden Hill Steiner School eNewsletter

Class 3

Class 3 have had a busy start to the term and have spent the last four weeks focusing on their musical main lesson. An engaging Italian story of ‘Phonopolis - The land of music’ set the scene for the introduction of music notation. We have been learning about rhythm, beat, pitch, time signatures, , harmony and melody. It has been a lot to take in but lots of fun as we learn to make sense of the notes and are becoming confident in playing our recorders from sheet music. Our music practice will continue each day setting us up to launch into violin next year. We have also formed a choir with our neighbours, Blake and class 4. We meet twice weekly to sing together and have taken our choir and percussion ensemble on the road to perform for the residents at Blue Wren Lodge. A wonderful experience for us all.

Painting and drawing are a favourite activity for many of the students in class 3 and it becomes a weekly activity alongside many of our overarching subjects. In class 3 we hold space for guided drawings alongside our wet-on-wet painting practice. There is a step-by-step instruction involved, using only block crayons. Through practice the children learn to blend colours, create gesture, contrast and contours. It is not as easy as it looks but their finishes pieces are quite beautiful

Now that the rain is beginning to clear we have begun our introduction to Bothmer gymnastics and are becoming better acquainted with our wooden staves as we work together to create form and balance. Bothmer is integral to our spatial awareness and hand eye coordination and success as a group cannot happen without collaboration. Much like our maypole dance practice as we begin to weave together and move as one in readiness to dance the maypole at our upcoming Spring Festival in week 10.

Robyn