Playground philosophy

Everything finite has a cause. Nothing finite can cause itself. A causal chain cannot be of infinite length. Therefore, an infinite, uncaused ‘first cause’ must exist. So said Thomas Aquinas. Spending my usual Tuesday lunchtime in the local primary school’s playground, I felt too sluggish for sport, so sat down on a grassy bank and [...]

Thongs and tie-ins

By a happy coincidence, this week’s assembly and AllStars (Y5-6) after school club tied in nicely with each other. Meadowbank school’s assemblies this term are on ‘special stories’ so to start the term off, I did Adam and Eve. This term in AllStars, I’ve decided we’re going to do the life of Jesus, in the [...]