Autumn Week 2 – Class 4 shine brightly during World Faiths Week

Class 4 had a wonderful World Faiths week focusing on the religions Hinduism and Sihkism. We looked at how these religions follow our school moto to live ‘life in all its fullness’. We focused on the Diwali celebration, both Hindus and Sikhs celebrate this festival with fireworks. For Hindus, it is the festival of lights and for Sikhs, it commemorates the release from prison of the sixth guru, Guru Hargobind.

See below for our wonderful firework pieces of art – we used oil pastels to create our fireworks, covered them with a layer of black paint, and then scratched out our impressive firework displays.

We also looked at how music helps Hindus live ‘life in all its fullness’. We listened to the Om (Aum), a scared sound of divine. It is a mysterious expression of the infinity, timelessness and wisdom. Class 4 shared their views on how this ancient chant made them feel.

I felt like I was in a beautiful Hindu temple, focusing on prayer. Cheri’ane

I was so relaxed and calm but I felt like the music was spinning around me, it was so special. Kristian

I was thinking about Brahman and all different Gods in different religions – I see a similarity between Christianity and Hinduism.   Daniel

 

 


Stars of the Week: Arianna and Emmanuel

One thought on “Autumn Week 2 – Class 4 shine brightly during World Faiths Week

  • 29/09/2017 at 6:04 pm
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    I loved learning about Hindu , Navaratri and Holy Festivals. I really loved it when we were doing our fireworks for art, it was so fun and thank you Sue for putting our artwork up in the class and the hall.

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