Today we re-capped on values in class then went to the woods to act out the story of the Buddha. We discussed the fact that people believe different things and that the 6 world religions shared many common values but had different beliefs. After acting out the story we summarised and I asked each group to go and find a meditation spot- like the Buddha’s fig tree. we visited each spot and then I asked the children to return to their spot an discuss a ‘big question’- where did the world come from? I was very impressed with the answers and discussion. 3 said God, one said aliens and the rest proposed ideas involving crashes, amalgamations and explosions in space. Everyone took the task seriously which was impressive and I presume down to the balance in each group.
It was a very wet day and ideally I wanted to do this task somewhere more beautiful where children could experience a sense of awe.