Sikh life

Eagles have been learning about the Sikh way of life. Vaisakhi is one of the most important dates in the Sikh calendar and usually occurs in the spring.

It is a day to celebrate 1699 – the year when Sikhism was born as a collective faith.

This included creating a special bowl filled with sugar crystals, Amrit is a mixture of sugar and water that has been stirred with a double-edged sword. The candidates for initiation drink some of the Amrit from the same bowl, and have it sprinkled on their eyes and hair.

Bhangra is a type of traditional folk dance of Punjab and we learned that it is performed during the festival of Vaisakhi. Eagles learned some of the moves and performed a dance as a whole class.