Personal Development Term 5 Team Hayzelden

This week has been personal development week and we have had lots of fun learning!

In our core value lesson, we focussed on our values of kindness and resilience. In mixed teams, we completed tasks before passing on our baton in the resilience relay race. We used encouraging words filled with kindness to help others develop their resilience. Then, we considered how these words of encouragement made us feel as we worked hard to complete the relay race.

In RE, we have been learning about Buddhism. We have learnt who the Buddha was, how he became the Buddha, the teachings of Buddhism and the significance of Vesak, also known as Buddha day. 

Vesak is a festival that celebrates Buddha reaching enlightenment by using the 'middle way' after his time with the 5 ascetics. After a discussion on why this festival is significant to Buddhists, we created our own lanterns for Vesak Day, coming up on the 12th May.