We Nurture Wonderful Human Beings

Never more apt given the state of world affairs, Sadhguru School’s Early Years Coordinator, Trinity, takes us through Year 2's theme: ‘Bringing Peace Around the World through Children’.

With peace as the heart beat of the term, Year 2 (7+ years old) began by trying to understand the meaning of peace and their perception of peace. They further delved into the causes of lack of peace in their personal lives, their homes, their class and in school, and ways to resolve conflict. 

In pairs they carried out a whole school research, collecting data on how students and teachers resolve conflict. They then made tables and bar charts.This helped them sharpen their tallying and data-analysis maths skills.

Through music, dance and poetry the children navigated through the continents and oceans of the world to different countries including Uganda.They learnt about different countries from videos, story books and guest speakers.They began to see that we share the same air, land and water. That we are all different but the same.

This led them to the habitats around the world and how animals adapt to their environment. They also read Wangari's Trees of Peace by Jeannette Winter about Wangari, a Kenyan conservationist who fought to conserve forests in the Mt Kenya region.This awakened their awareness of the responsibility we all have to protect our habitats. They realized our inter- dependence with plants and animals for food, air and energy. This steered the study to the need we all have to share the resources we have: the big and the small.

The children realized that sharing equally is also called division, and they began to work on a variety of maths division activities. The term’s exit point was a presentation by the children that included a poem and song about peace as well as a touch of a South African ‘gumboot dance’ (an acoustic percussive dance of slapping boots and stomping feet).

You can listen to six-year-old Sunny's emotive report from the field (Sunny's Appeal for Unity) in the link at the bottom of this report.

In love and light, the Sadhguru School Team

Links:

• Sunny's Appeal for Unity