Welcome to SPIRITED ARTS - SPIRITED POETRY

A NATRE project to link creativity with Religious Education for schools

SPIRITED ARTS - SPIRITED POETRY

NATRE: Spirited Arts is a creative strategy to enable better and more imaginative RE

Teachers are free to use these poems to inspire further writing and thinking in their own classrooms. NATRE is grateful to all pupils and participants in the poetry competition

Entries from the 2008 competition:

A sample of 2008 entries on one printable sheet >> (requires PDF reader)

QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS
Tom White	A Word To God	Coleshill C of E Infant School	6
Bethany Rose	Questions, Questions	St Martin at Shouldham VA Primary School	9
Francis Powell	Questions, Questions	Hazlemere C of E School	10
Megan Smith	Questions, Questions	Oaklands Catholic School	15

MYSTERY OF LIFE
Isabella Johnson	What Have You Got?	Coleshill C of E Infant School	6
Hannah Copsey	Mystery of Life	Potterhanworth C of E Primary School	9
Abilene Gray	Today is the Day	New Rush Hall School	13
Jadie Fan	Time – The Determinator	Loreto Sixth Form College	17

I AM...
William Slater	Jesus	Ingham Primary School	5
Max Winser	I Am God's Child	Victoria First School and Nursery	7
Jack Ashton	Who am I?	Harrogate Grammar School	12
Abbey Bradbury	CLOSING DOWN SALE	Blue Coat School	15

WINDOWS ON THE SOUL
Cameron Convoy	Windows On the Soul	Victoria First School and Nursery	8
Florence Ward	Windows On the Soul	Edmund Waller Primary School	10
John Archer	Window To Your Soul	Ivybridge Community College	11
Stephanie Soyombo	Window To Your Soul	Woodford County High School for Girls	15

LOOKING FOR GOD
Megan James	Where Is God?	The Mead Community Primary School	6
Grace Grimmitt	Where is God?	Kibworth C of E Primary	9
Lucca James Hempsall	Where God is Found	Walter Evans Primary School	10
Rama Lakshman	The Great Big Mystery Of God	Bottisham Village College	12
Daniel Pickering	Vacancy:	Blue Coat School

OTHER NOTABLE ENTRIES
Emily Waller	Questions, Questions
James McMullen	Questions	7
Georgia Reardon	Questions, Questions	8
	Beyond Every Object
	Death

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SPIRITED POETRY: A competition for creative RE - from the National Association of Teachers of Religious Education

Nearly 100 entries (from the previous 2006 competition) have been selected for publication, and appear in a book of Spirited Poetry, jointly published by NATRE and Religious and Moral Education Press. Many more were excellent in their own way as well.

Judges: Penelope Wilcock, published poet; Lesley Prior, RE lecturer and chair of the Shap working party on world religions; Lat Blaylock editor REtoday and NATRE project worker.

"The judges' task was difficult because the quality of entries was high and impressive. We looked for originality, insight and good use of language in the interpretation of the theme pupils made. We wish to thank all teachers who enabled pupils to take part as well as the pupils – judging spirited poetry has been a wonderful experience."

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Spirited Arts is run by the National Association of Teachers of Religious Education with RE Today Services.