Newham RE Competition: Houses of Wisdom This presentation shows you some winning RE work from across the age ranges based on exploring spiritual space: is a place of worship a house of wisdom? Where in the word would you go for wisdom? Thanks to Claire Clinton, RE Matters for these lovely samples of work.

4 year old Alina took a class trip to the Gurdwara, then made this picture and writing about her own holy place, a mosque.

Ismaeel, 5, drew some of his favourite things at the mosque: ‘Muslims use prayer mats to pray.’

Agnes, 5, painted the church her class visited in watercolours.

Ranelagh Reception class all contributed to this collage of Noah’s Ark: a house of wisdom, in its own way!

Park School Reception Class visited a mosque, and created this display about Muslim faith back in school. Inside the door, a photo shows the class learning about Islam

Elmhurst Primary School Reception Class visited a Sikh Gurdwara. Back at school, they made this sculpture to show what thye had learned about the Guru Granth Sahib. You can see the pages in their topic books where children drew what they had seen.

Children from the Reception class at Scott Wilkie Primary School visited a church, where they had some music lessons and did some singing. They made a small scale version of the church back at school for their play based RE.

Zainab, in Year Two, learned about the Golden Temple at Amritsar after visiting a local Gurdwara, and created this painting.

Chloe, 6, describes her visit to the local church, picking out lots of details: ‘they showed care by giving juice and biscuits to us.’

Aaryan, aged 7, made this lantern in work about light and darkness.

7-9s at Hallsville Primary School visited a synagogue and produced this classroom display of all their thoughts and art work.

7-9s at Park School visited a Mandir, and created a display about the different gods and goddesses they saw who were worshipped there, and about the Divali story. The display looks like one of the shrines at the Mandir.

Elmhurst pupils created a Divali light display, and each wrote poems to explore the meanings of light for themselves

9-10 year olds at Elmhurst Primary School all contributed to this tapestry of faith

10-11s at Hallsville Primary School studied Buddhist answers to questions about the meaning of life and created this class display to show their own ideas and reflections.

10-11s at Park School worked out what meditation can add to the lives of Buddhist people and considered how much commitment this might take, talking about their own commitments.

Newham RE Competition: Houses of Wisdom Thanks to Claire Clinton, RE Matters for these lovely samples of work. What could your school borrow from these ideas and put into practice? There is guidance on the NATRE website about visiting places of worship in RE