We had a bit of time before the 2 minute silence to explain what it was about. I asked who we might want to remember in our time of quiet. In asking the question "who dies in wars?" one answer that came back was goodies and baddies. I was pleased that the children knew that people on "both sides" die in wars, but obviously wanted to explore this goodies/baddies concept further.
When we came to play our football later, I divided us up according to eye colour and asked why I might have done it that way. We got to talk about how we don't decide our eye colour and we don't decide where we are born, and that the side we find ourselves on in a war might be just as arbitrary. We talked about how God loves everyone equally :)
The children shared how townspeople can be killed in war, I got the opportunity to talk about conscientious objectors as someone hadn't come across that term before, and how some died in their front line roles as medics not fighters. We thought about how peace can begin with us.
Funny how after the event we can be glad we did it :)
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