Orana Primary School

Click here for the Classes 1-7 Handbook

The primary phase of schooling commences around the age of seven when the first important phase of growth and development is completed. Emerging independent capacities of memory and imagination are now ready to be called upon and exercised. Through emphasis on rhythmical and musical activities, the developing feeling or emotional life of the child can be educated.
	Performances are an important part of the curriculum

Rhythms in lessons within each day, week and year, various artistic activities, stories of nature, mythologies and metaphors concerning life, all work to strengthen the child's inherent forces of a feeling, imaginative nature. They are nourished with knowledge that "lives" for them.

To the extent that the teacher is the one who brings such experiences into the child's daily life, this is the phase of authorship or authority in a guiding sense. A feature of Primary education in Steiner schools such as Orana is that the class teacher moves with the children from Class 1 to 7 and therefore has an in depth understanding of the class as individuals and as a group.	Clay modelling
Class teachers engage classes in movement, speech, drawing, painting, modelling, story-telling, writing and singing as well as lesson content, in order to cultivate the feeling life of the child. It is recognised that during the Primary phase there is a burgeoning imaginative thinking ability which flourishes and is exercised in an environment filled with creative endeavour. It is a discipline in a Steiner School to meet the child's developmental phases with appropriate tasks and content. The Steiner Primary phase is completed with the commencement of Class 7 when the students are 14 years of age and moving into the developmental phase of puberty. Click here for the Classes 1-7 Handbook
Harvesting Harvest Festival where children celebrate nature's bounty and take time to reflect on our connection with the land. Children bring and display produce which is given to a worthy charity after the Festival.