Hersham Baha'i Community

Elmbridge borough council has divided the borough in to over 20 wards. The Hersham Baha'i community consists of Baha'is residents in the Hersham ward.

The small but active community currently holds regular childrens classes, devotional meetings and community meetings on a regular basis. There are also Junior Youth classes in neighboring communities which the Hersham community support.

Children's Classes

Children's Classes are aimed at Young children between ages of 5 to 12. Classes have one or two facilitators who organise the schedule, and maintains a consultative approach to learning. This encourages participation by children to discuss, absorb and learn new information.

Classes are organised by facilitators and the objective of classes are to encourage the youth to reflect, contemplate and analyse the many different aspects of the world they live in. The wide range of subjects covered in classes includes:

• Development of moral virtues - Truthfulness, honesty, uprightness, cleanliness, assertiveness, trustworthiness, confidence
• Intellectual development - Numbers, Letters, Geography, National and International History, Money matters
• Social development - Social interaction, Public speaking, Group Organisation, Group activity
• Learning and Memorising prayers - these include prayers from Baha'i writings for children
• Sport and physical activities - organize by cooperation of parents and volunteers