Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to describe the sequence of events in a story from the Bible about friendship and a template to select and record some of the special ways of building strong and happy relationships with a friend.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore a story from the Bible about Jesus that illustrates how to build strong and supportive friendships.

This lesson is part of a religious education scheme of work to get the children to read and illustrate some of the stories from the Bible that were told by Jesus about how to use different skills to support friends in a range of life situations and scenarios. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.