Which side of you should more people get to see?
10-12grade 5-6
Age Conversation questions for 10 to 12 year olds
Between 10 and 12 the world gets bigger. These questions are about friendship, the future and what really matters to children. Ask them without hurry, and let a silence last a while.
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Example questions
Faith
How can faith help you when something sad happens?
Read together: 2 Corinthians 1:3-4
Which book of the Bible would you like to read from start to finish?
Read together: 2 Timothy 3:16-17
Which choice made by someone in the Bible would you also like to make?
Read together: Joshua 24:15
Why is it sometimes hard to show that you believe?
Read together: Romans 1:16
What would change if you read the Bible for five minutes every day?
Read together: Psalm 1:1-3
What do you find special about how the Bible begins?
Read together: Genesis 1:1-3
Fun
Which famous person would you like to see teaching your class for a day?
Would you rather be able to teleport or rewind time? Why?
Which invention from the past do you actually find pretty strange?
Which sport would be much more fun with a bit of magic?
What is the strangest question you have ever asked?
Which ordinary moment would be much more fun as a musical?
Icebreaker
What do you want to learn before you start secondary school?
What can you spend hours doing without noticing?
Which challenge would you like to take on this year?
What is your favourite way to relax?
What do you think about homework, and why?
Which question do you often get asked, and which would you rather get?
Feelings
How do you know if you're really ready for something?
How do you deal with criticism?
How do you let someone know you don't like something?
Who lets you really be yourself?
What do you do when you notice someone is jealous of you?
What do you do when you see something nasty online?
Imagine
If you lived to two hundred, what would you want to do?
What would happen if everyone could read each other's minds?
What would happen if children could vote?
If you could make an app that is really good for people, what would it do?
If you could design a monument to something or someone, what would it be?
If you could write a letter to be read in a hundred years, what would it say?
My day
Which topic made you want to know more today?
How would you describe today in one sentence?
What went well in a friendship today?
What did you do today to cheer someone up?
What was the best joke today, yours or someone else's?
What did you do today that really suits you?
How to get the most out of it
- 1
Ask one question at a time
Give everyone time. A silence often means someone is thinking.
- 2
Join in yourself
Children open up more easily when you share something of your own.
- 3
Let the die choose
In the app you tap the die and get a question that fits the theme and the age.
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