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Good News

This assembly teaching pack for all year groups gets the children to explore and reflect on how news about Jesus was spread among his followers by the prophet John the Baptist as preparation for what happened in Jerusalem.

The class can explain and suggest some of the special methods that they could use when spreading news about something that happened in their own lives to share with others.

Download this teaching pack including an assembly plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore and reflect on how news about Jesus was spread among his followers by the prophet John the Baptist as preparation for what happened in Jerusalem

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explore the sequence of events in a story from the Bible about how John the Baptist spread news about Jesus to his followers and a worksheet to read and reflect on a prayer about how to share news about special events with others.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how the prophet John the Baptist spread news to his followers about the arrival and importance of Jesus.

This assembly can support development in learning about the sequence of events in the Easter story and support reflection and discussions about how and why Jesus was crucified by the Romans. There are teaching activities for shared learning and reflection and an interactive presentation to introduce concepts and key skills.

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