The themes for 2005
Life’s like… | |
This theme invites pupils to look at life from any angle
they like, making metaphors and symbols. It’s a popular
activity: is life like a puzzle, a journey, a rat race, a disease,
a gift or (as 10CC said) a minestrone?
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I wonder… | |
RE’s obsession with puzzling questions is fertile
ground for poetic imagination. Where are we from, where are we
going, what are we worth and who can prove it? All the questions
and all the replies are the wide territory for this theme.
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Where is God? | |
Atheists say God’s nowhere. Agnostics think he may
be hiding. Feminists think he’s a she. Believers –
of many hues – may place the divine in the human heart,
in the sacred space, in the running waves or in deep space. Reflections
from all points of view are welcome here.
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Faith | |
Noah trusted the promise of the rainbow. Prophet Muhammad
[PBUH] trusted the voice of Angel Jibril. Who do you trust? Where
do you put your faith? This theme invites pupils to reflect on
their own issues and ideas about trust and faith – in God,
or in humanity. |
PCFRE’s national Spirited Poetry competition:
Here’s a chance to get your pupils from 5-19 writing quality
poetry in RE and perhaps to get their work published through our
‘Spirited Poetry’ competition. PCFRE is pleased to invite
all readers to enter pupils’ poetic work on religious and
spiritual themes for its new competition for Autumn 2005. The closing
date is 6th December 2005, a few weeks after National Poetry Day.
RE and poetry work can be undertaken any time between now and then.
We hope your curriculum will lend itself at some point to one of
the four themes of the competition. Your school can enter up to
5 poems, no longer than 30 lines in each case, for the award of
some small prizes, and for possible inclusion in out published anthology
of ‘spirited poetry’. There are three age groups: Under
9s, 9-13s, 14+.
Details and a small anthology of examples are available to download
here.
Send your entries to:
Spirited Poetry,
c/o PCFRE
1020 Bristol Road,
Selly Oak
Birmingham B29 6LB.
If you want to email your entries, send them to:
retoday@retoday.org.uk
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Some examples of pupils’ poetry:
Cinquaines are 5 line poems, with one, two, three, two one words per
line, like this:
Birth.
Without asking
we all receive
one gift:
life!
Seven lines in the same format might give you:
It's
a miracle:
She reached out
to touch his clothes
twelve years pain
ended through
faith
God
In one God we believe,
No equal has He.
Lord of the universe,
Come, passionate, to me.
We are the young Muslims,
and God we pray
for all His blessings
our voices we raise.
Muhammad the Prophet
taught us the way
to be hopeful and truthful
through each and every day.
Khurum Chaudry (14)
WHAT DID HE THINK?
What did he think when he made the sunlight,
Carved the mountains,
Poured out the sea?
He must have known how to make it just right,
Like a marble fountain,
Or a small green pea.
What did he think when he saw the deer run,
Deer that he made for us humans
to care for?
Just like when I first turned a tap on
I thought it was marvellous
I was only four
He must have known that he was all powerful
And pure like the water
Running down into the sink
When he saw Eve’s baby smile and gurgle
And shine with laughter
What did He think?
Tania Gabbidon (13)
Download
more examples here
Spirited Arts - 2004
