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7 days ago
🏺🏛️🏺🌿🔱 Greek Mythology – from Myth to History. Ty Haul are immersing themselves in the rich and timeless world of Greek Mythology.![]()
Class 5 is a pivotal year in the Steiner Waldorf curriculum. Children find themselves at a point of dynamic balance between the earlier years of their childhood and the near-future years of adolescence. They have new capacities for thought and reflection, a dynamic interest in the world, and an emerging sense of personal and social responsibility.![]()
The curriculum meets them at this stage by moving into the borderland between mythology and history proper. One of the main themes for the year is ancient histories, moving through great cultures of the ancient world - from the dawn of pre-history through India, Persia, Babylon and Egypt, leading up to ancient Greece.![]()
They start the year hearing stories from the world of mythology that have lived in the oral traditions of their people, but by year-end will move into the realm of actual history. Greece is the pivot point for this. ![]()
The ancient Greek Myths allow students to immerse themselves in the rich and timeless stories of gods, heroes, and epic adventures that have shaped culture and imagination for centuries. These can have particular resonance for students this age - overcoming difficulties in the world without too much help from the gods (or parents or teachers), a sense of standing on your own two feet and a striving to be fair, honourable and just in all aspects of life. ![]()
Yet in the myths real locations are mixed with mythological characters. The Iliad tells of the Trojan War with Achilles, Odysseus and Helen of Troy. We can follow their travels in the Aegean Sea from Sparta in Greece to Troy in Modern day Turkey. Just as mythology and history are mixed so do the gods mix with humans, and Zeus has many mortal children who became great Kings and Queens, said to be the ancestors of known rulers. ![]()
And from here the study of ‘real’ history begins, with Athens and Sparta and their struggles with each other and Persia. Students begins to explore the impact of individuals, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, and the atmosphere in the classroom changes as the focus shifts more to individual academic work with growing emphasis on personal responsibility.![]()
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1 week ago
✖️➗➕➖ Ty Crisial Maths - The concept of 'Whole to Parts' is rooted deeply in Waldorf education, not just in maths but across the curriculum. Put simply, we first present the whole of something and then break it into parts. ![]()
The number 12, for instance, doesn't stand alone, many things come together to make up 12, and 12 is also a component of many other larger parts. 12 can be 6 X 2, it can be 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2, it can be 4 X 3. The concept of putting the whole before the parts is based on HOW the child learns the basic concepts of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. It is important they are able to view the whole of the concept before they break it into computational parts. ![]()
Similarly in Botany, later in the curriculum, to learn about a plant we don't simply pick the plant and bring it to the classroom and look at it. We go to where the plant is. Look at the earth around the plant. Look at the skies over the plant. Look at the water that comes to the plant. Look at everything that makes the conditions for that plant to live and thrive first. From that wholeness, the child can come into observation, curiosity and reverence fo#wearewaldorftself.
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Cardiff Steiner School
Hawthorn Road West
Llandaff North
Cardiff CF14 2FL
Llandaff North
Cardiff CF14 2FL
029 2056 7986
Private school in Cardiff, Wales UK
Independent school in Cardiff, Wales, UK