What is life like behind the monastery walls? Who are the monks and what is their daily life like? These programmes present the monastery as a living place of prayer, work and community.
Program title: Life in a monastery
What is a monk and what does his day in a monastery look like?
In this program, students discover the daily life of Cistercian monks through games, activities and
joint discovery. They try out the role of a novice in a monastery, compare the day of a student and a monk, and welcome a pilgrim according to the rules of monastic hospitality.
The program also includes a visit to a church. What can life in a monastery reveal about concentration, service and life in community?
Target group: Elementary school students (ages 6 to 11)
Total implementation time: 90 min.
Program title: The Story of Monastery Gardens - What Grows Behind the Monastery Walls?
What is hidden behind the monastery garden walls?
Set out with your students to discover a place where herbs, fruit and patience have been grown for centuries. Along the garden wall, they will explore what is grows behind it and why the garden has always been so important to the monastery.
They will recognize fragrant herbs in the raised beds and meet the monastery cooks who use them when cooking for the brothers. And when the gate to the monastery orchard opens, there is another little surprise waiting among the apple trees.
Target group: Elementary school students (ages 6 to 11)
Total implementation time: 90–120 min.
Program title: What the library hides?
Silence. Rows of old books. And among them, stories waiting to be noticed.
Not all the secrets of the library are hidden between the pages. Some have remained here for centuries – as a silent testimony to life in the monastery.
What can a monastery library hide? Colorful initials, forgotten stories or mysteries hidden in ancient books? Sometimes it is enough to open a book. Other times to raise your eyes upwards. And sometimes to put on white gloves and explore the past.
What can be discovered in a library? And what remains hidden until we really start looking?
Target group: Elementary school students (ages 8 to 11)
Total implementation time: 90 min.