Success in the NATRE Art in Heaven Competiton

Well done to last year’s Year 8 pupils Alex B, George P, Gabriel R and Sam H for their winning entry in the NATRE (National Association of Teachers Religious Education) Art in Heaven competition. The boys entered the category “Questions: Big, Bigger, Biggest” where the challenge was to “consider one or more of the biggest questions of life, and express their ideas about the question in their work”.

Their entry was “The Missing Piece”

"For our subject, we chose the Big, Bigger, Biggest category, and within it we chose the question “Can we ever make peace?” Our work depicts a puzzle of the dove of peace, with each of the pieces being one of the five main religions, none of which fit together and one being missing for Atheism, meaning they cannot make peace.
In our work, you can see that Christianity and Islam are together on a wing. This is because the religions are closely linked. Judaism is at the head because the others are based on it, and Christianity and Islam are at the top because they started similar, but as time goes on they slowly bend away from each other. They also never quite fit together, because they have fundamental differences.
Hinduism and Buddhism are on their own, because they are more separated from the other three in their ideals and methods.
Initially, working in a group of four was really hard, and we kept arguing. But eventually, once we got a good idea, we began to work really well, and really fast too. We found this ironic because we were looking at how people struggled to work together all over the world, and yet we found it hard to work together ourselves.”

See more about the competition on the NATRE website: http://www.natre.org.uk/about-natre/projects/spirited-arts/art-in-heaven/2015/  and the boys’ winning entry: http://www.natre.org.uk/about-natre/projects/spirited-arts/art-in-heaven/2015/the-missing-peace/