This form of movement arose from the need, experienced in the first
Waldorf School, for a lesson that would help the children to integrate
everything they were learning in other lessons, and so assist in their
development as whole beings of body, mind and soul.
 The exercises are tailored to each different stage of the
child’s development, enhancing their coordination, concentration,
spatial awareness, and harmony between their thinking, feeling and
willing capacities.
Every Eurythmy teacher undergoes a
fouryear training course plus an extra year in pedagogical Eurythmy. In
our school, Eurythmy is taught from Kindergarten to Class Eight with
lessons once or twice a week.
In class the teacher draws new material from the current Main Lesson and from seasonal poems and stories.
The lessons are accompanied by a pianist, as music is essential to
harmonious movements. It also helps the children to develop listening
skills. From Class Four upwards children consolidate their Eurythmy
work by giving demonstrations. Sometimes they take place as part of an
end-of-term concert; all classes participate in a performance of their
work at the end of the school year.
REMEDIAL EURYTHMY
In conjunction with the Learning Support Department, remedial Eurythmy
is available during Main Lesson time as individual sessions of 15 to 20
minutes each, twice a week for half or all of a term. Children are
referred by the class teacher after consultation with, and the consent
of, the parents.
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