Lotus class just had a lesson about karma and consequences. Here’s what pupils had to say:

“Karma is sort of ‘what goes around, comes around’ and we learned that for every action there is a reaction, a bit like in science. It’s like a ball that rolls or a circle; your actions or thoughts start something rolling that can come back to you.”

“We talked about the consequences of our actions and how something that might seem good at the time can sometimes have bad consequences later, but also things that we often don’t like doing can be good for us down the line. Also good thoughtful actions can lead to more good whereas bad actions can result in more bad stuff happening. We did some work where we thought of situations where one thing had led to another thing happening and we used plus and minus symbols to show how we felt about what happened, like this…. ”

- - “I said something mean to a person without thinking and straight away I felt guilty. Later on I got talked to about it by a teacher and that person no longer liked me.”

- + “Doing homework (tee hee), sometimes I like doing it, but mainly it’s like a block in my afternoon, but once I’ve done it I realise I’ve improved.”

+ + “I was nice to someone and made them my friend. After this they were nice to me and everything was good.”

+ - “On Halloween I ate loads of sweets including millions of crunchy bars as I loved them. The next day I felt sick and had gone off crunchy bars for life.”

- + “I have to clean out my chickens and I don’t like doing that, but after I did clean my chickens out they were really happy.”