Class 11
Class 11 Romantic Poetry and Dance
Whilst studying romantic poetry in Main Lesson, one student felt inspired to dance.
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Whilst studying romantic poetry in Main Lesson, four of the students felt inspired to write a new song. Upper school students and staff were invited to a special gig to see it performed (with a few of their other songs). It was a gig of which Wordsworth, Blake and Shelley would have been proud.
Read MoreClass Eleven in London
Class Eleven spent five days in London exploring world religions. They visited the Central Mosque for a talk and midday prayer. On another day, they attended Evensong at Westminster Abbey. The New West End Synagogue opened its doors for the Class to experience the spectacular interior and a friendly talk by one of the elders.…
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Class 11’s current Main Lesson investigates modernism an artistic period beginning with Romanticism and gave birth to such art movements as Impressionism, Dada, Expressionism, Bauhaus and Surrealism, and saw artistic achievements by Goya, Courbet, Manet, Degas, Klimt, Picasso, Kandinsky and Klee to name a few. We visited Tate Britain, Tate Modern and the National Gallery. The…
Read MoreVisiting Students – What they say!
Staying at Ringwood Waldorf School by Luca Girkens “The idea started at the end of the eighth class that Thomas and I could leave our school to experience school in England, mainly it was because the boring English lessons. After we spoke with a few teachers and found the school in the internet. It was…
Read MoreIn Search of the Avant-Garde
[pl_video type=”vimeo” id=”240888578″] [foogallery id=”4941″] Class 11 in London – In search of Modernism Before half-term Class 11, as part of their Art History main lesson, visited London to find Avant-garde artists, exploring several major galleries; Tate Britain The National Gallery Tate Modern Movements they’ve explored during their Art History Main Lesson were; the Pre-Raphaelites Fauvism…
Read MoreClass 11 History: Religious Conflicts
No-one living in the modern world can have escaped reading about, or even witnessing the escalations in religious intolerance, conflicts and disputes that have been happening in the world in recent years. In the Class 11 History main lesson in November, we attempted to ‘unpack’ some of what lies behind these conflicts. In this main…
Read MoreThe Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire was founded in Asia Minor in the 11th century AD, and rose to become a formidable world power; the greatest Islamic empire the world has ever seen. In some ways it could be seen as a continuation of the eastern leg of the Roman Empire that outlived the western leg by a…
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