This religious education scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to read and illustrate stories from the Bible told by Jesus about how to use different skills to support friends in a range of life situations and scenarios. The class can explain how Jesus gave guidance to his followers about friendship.

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

Lesson One : Good Friend

Explore how to identify and describe some of the different ways of building strong and happy supportive relationships with other people

Lesson Two : Jesus’ Friends

Practise reading and exploring the sequence of events in a story from the Bible about the life of Jesus to illustrate how to build strong and supportive friendships

Lesson Three : Helping Friends

Investigate how to use ideas about relationships in a story from the Bible to suggest and record how to support friends in a range of different situations and scenarios

Lesson Four : Helping Others

Investigate and role-play dramatic scenes that feature in a story from the Bible that can illustrate a range of different friendship and relationship skills

Lesson Five : Zacchaeus

Practise using a story from the Bible to identify and record how Jesus taught some other people about how to give support to others in their lives

Lesson Six : Friend Guidebook

Explore how to compose and present entries for a class book to record some of the different skills that can be used to support friends in a range of scenarios

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    Labelling Bicycles

    Develop and refine word processing skills when labelling and organising different parts and equipment that can be used when riding a bicycle

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    Garden Sculpture

    Select and use different materials to mould and shape sculptures representing a range of artefacts that might be used in a family garden location

  • Witch’s Cauldron

    Witch’s Cauldron

    Select and write sets of instructions that a witch can follow when making a range of potions for casting different spells

  • Stories From the Bible

    Stories From the Bible

    Investigate the sequence of events in stories from the Bible told by Jesus and reflect on lessons that the narratives can teach people about their lives