ABSTRACT
A great deal of running round the schoolroom as “engines”, “motors”, “express “or “goods” trains. The children ran round the schoolroom a great deal to music, as engines and aeroplanes. The children often asked for music whilst they were modelling and sewing, or sitting in their “boats” or “houses”, and listened to it discriminatingly—Scarlatti, Haydn, Bach, Mendelssohn, Schumann. The children had a very strong impulse to the dramatic expression of all their experiences–whether stories or verse, nursery rhymes, or things that really happened. They were very fond of giving a ritualised dramatic form to amusing or emotional incidents that happened in the school, or things they had seen on the way to school. The most favoured form of make-believe among the younger group was, however, making “ships” of one kind or another, e.g., the Leviathan, battleships, steamers. The most frequent form of handwork was modelling, chiefly with plasticine, but sometimes with glitterwax.
