This term, GHSS parents have enjoyed a series of workshops on various topics related to child development or the Steiner curriculum. Last Friday, Fran’s wet-on-wet watercolour painting workshop was especially well received, with parents being guided through an Easter-themed watercolour painting. Rudolf Steiner believed that colour and soul are intimately connected. Although a Steiner student’s finished work is often a product of function and beauty, it is often the experience itself that is just as, if not more, important. In this way, the Steiner curriculum emphasises a phenomenological approach, which is the direct observation of the natural world through one’s senses.

In the case of watercolour painting, children experience the colour washing onto the page on many different levels. Parents had a little taster of this in the workshop - watching the colours magically blend and swirl together to form new colours and interesting patterns.

Keep an eye out for next term’s Parent workshop offerings!