Year 8 RE

One of the highlights of this term in R.E has been the Year 8 Snakes and Ladders games. Every student had to design a Snakes and Ladders board to demonstrate their understanding of the Karma, Moksha and Samsara.

Moksha is freedom from the cycle of death and reincarnation (Samsara).

Snakes and Ladders is an ancient Indian game. The children in India played it to understand the effects of good deeds and bad deeds. The ladders represent values such as kindness, faith and humility. The snakes are the bad deeds, such as anger and murder.

The aim of the game is to attain Moksha by performing good deeds and climbing the ladders to the top. If you perform bad deeds, you will fall down the ladders.

Students were given the task to design a Snakes and Ladders game explaining a Hindu’s journey to Moksha. In squares containing a ladder, they wrote an action that would help a Hindu achieve Moksha. In squares containing a snake, they wrote write an action that would give a Hindu bad karma and would not help them achieve Moksha.

Here is a collection of the creative games designed by the Year 8 students:

Miss Hollier

RE Department

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