Design and display

This activity is based on a workshop run at The British Library. It is designed for half a class of students (15 pupils). However, it can be adapted for a class of thirty-plus, providing you are able to get enough materials such as boxes and religious books.

It encourages children to look carefully at an exhibition that they visit on a class trip with a view to recreating one in their classroom. They will focus on design, conservation and interpretation issues.

The subject is "Special Books", which is a popular R.E. topic in most Local Education Authority syllabuses, and asks the students to focus on how to look after and display a special book, taking into account the beliefs and feelings of their peers.

The students will learn about some of the religious books from the major world faiths and will be asked to write and exhibit labels about a special book and then display them and the book in an imaginative way.

Activity
Design and display workshop