Year 7 Prayer Flags

In Year 7 RE, students explore the theme of “where do we belong?”. The first topic focuses on what it means to belong to a religion. As part of this topic, students have learnt about core features that can be found in most religions from God/gods, rules and leaders to common ways of worshipping. After exploring prayer and meditation, students focused on prayer flags used by Buddhists. Prayer flags are used to promote peace, compassion, strength and wisdom. Buddhist’s don’t believe in God so their prayers are not addressed to God but to the universe. Buddhists believe the prayers will be blown by the wind to spread good will, peace and compassion. The Year 7s were then given the homework task of creating their own prayer flag on which they could either write a prayer or a guided meditation. Take a look here at some of the brilliant prayer flags that they created…

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