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RE at key stages 1 and 2    (Year 6)

Unit 6F: How do people express their faith through the arts?
Section 3: How can colour express religious feelings and ideas?

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Objectives

Children should learn:
  • that colour can be used to express religious feelings and ideas

Activities

Outcomes

Children:
  • Ask a member of the clergy to bring the coloured vestments for different seasons of the Christian year. What do the colours used in church symbolise? Help the children to carry out research to find out about the stories and symbols in some Christian festivals and design and make a banner for a festival, such as Pentecost.
  • explain the meaning of vestments and colour in many churches
  • identify and explain the significance of some symbols in Christianity

Sections in this unit

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1. How do we express our feelings?
2. How might music be a way of expressing worship for believers?
3. How can colour express religious feelings and ideas?
4. How have artists expressed religious beliefs?
5. How does Islamic art help Muslims to worship?
6. How is faith expressed through drama?