Religious education

The RE topics can be approached through any one art form or a combination of art forms.
For example, topics may include:

Key Stages 1-2
A Short Question

Imaginative arts activities enable children to discover that everyone has qualities that make them special. Pupils explore the idea that God accepts all kinds of people, including those who might feel that they don’t belong.

More able KS2 students working alongside Autistic Spectrum Disorder pupils)
Creation

Students generate and develop their own multi-sensory ideas for a presentation of the Biblical creation story in Genesis 1, helping them explore their own spirituality.

“This project has reminded us why we do what we do.”
Tettenhall Wood Special School, a SEN school – comment from during an arts week

KS1-2 RE and Citizenship
Our Personal Environment

Students are stimulated to think about how they view, and therefore how they feel about, their environment. This workshop focuses on the Easter story, of which students will increase their understanding by identifying with characters involved in the events of the crucifixion and resurrection. Through the arts, students explore the environment of the story, leading to an exploration of their own personal environment.

“A tight, well executed programme that the children enjoyed and learned from”
Eaglesfield Paddle CE VA Primary School

Key Stages 3-4
A Bold Question

A stimulating and creative exploration of the idea of forgiveness, encouraging pupils to question its importance and to look at priorities from a biblical perspective.

Prepared for Y10 GCSE Music students
Sleeping And Dreaming

Rhythms and patterns of sleep and dreaming provide the basis for students using music to consider the fact that people have different understandings and expressions of spirituality. This workshop encourages co-operation, musical composition and performance.

“You were fabulous”
teacher, St Peters Collegiate School, Wolverhampton

KS3-4
Love Your Neighbour As Yourself

Students consider what it means to ‘love your neighbour as yourself’, with the emphasis on what it means to love yourself, as they develop artwork which reflects their own understanding of spirituality.

Post 16 - Sixth Form
A Shameful Question

This unique programme encourages students to respond through different art forms to questions of identity. Comparing the experiences of key biblical characters with their own, students explore themes of questioning, faith, doubt and hope.