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KS3 RE – “How can the spiritual be expressed through art and music?” Complete Lesson PowerPoint Set
Engaging, fully-resourced PowerPoint presentations for a 10-lesson KS3 Religious Education unit exploring the core question: “How can the spiritual be expressed through art and music?”.

This dynamic and thought-provoking scheme introduces Year 8 students to how religion and the spiritual can be expressed through various forms of media. The unit investigates expression in Christianity, Islam and Hinduism, and culminates in an assessment creating artwork for NATRE’s ‘Spirited arts’ competition. It is designed to be an engaging, challenging and creative scheme of work.

What’s Included:
10 high-quality PowerPoints (L1–L10), aligned with the Y8 unit plan
Differentiated activities for Emerging, Expected, and Exceeding learners
Engaging starter tasks, paired/group work, debates, and creative projects
Integrated assessment preparation and feedback tasks
Stimulating resources such as case studies, text excerpts, and video.

Lessons Cover:

1. What is expression?
   Students explore how religious symbols express beliefs and values by analyzing their meanings across different faiths and cultural contexts.

2. How do Christians worldwide express their faith?
   In this lesson, students explore how Christian art—specifically the San Clemente Apse Mosaic—expresses key theological ideas through symbols and imagery.

3. How do Christians in Derbyshire express their faith?
   students learn about the Derbyshire tradition of well-dressing as a form of Christian worship and community storytelling. Through exploring symbols and Bible stories, they design their own well-dressings to express Christian values and connect faith with local cultural practices.

4. How do Muslims express their faith?
   students explore how Islamic and Christian art reflect different theological beliefs, focusing on how concepts like Tawhid influence the use of non-figurative forms such as calligraphy and geometry in Islamic art.

5. How do Muslims express belief in the 99 names?

6. How can faith be expressed through music? (taken from the RE:Online Amazing Grace sample lesson)

7. How can faith be expressed through dance?

8. How can faith be expressed through film and new media?

9. and 10. Spirited art assessment

Ideal For:
Year 7 RE teachers introducing religion as a human and cultural phenomenon
Departments embedding philosophical and sociological enquiry into KS3
Lessons designed to support the Principal Aim of RE and meet the Ofsted RE research review recommendations

Key Features:
Cross-religious and worldview-inclusive
Encourages critical thinking, creativity, and personal reflection
Supports literacy and extended writing through structured assessments
Linked to substantive concepts (e.g. God, Tawhid, Dharma) and sacred texts

Give your students the tools to ask life’s big questions—and build the foundations for informed, respectful worldview exploration. All fully resourced and ready to go.