Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explore and understand a key event in the nativity story about the journey to Bethlehem and a set of cards to sequence sentences recording the story of Mary and Joseph’s journey to Bethlehem.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use role-play and drama to understand and sequence part of the nativity story about the journey to Bethlehem.

This lesson is part of a topic scheme of work to get the children to read and respond to the sequence of events in the nativity story by using drama, role-play and art and design projects. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.