Lesson Five – Church Services

This religious education teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to identify and describe some of the different services and rituals that are performed inside a church including christenings.

The class can explain and illustrate the meaning behind some of the special prayers that are said by Christians when a child is baptised inside a church.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and describe some of the different services and rituals that are performed inside a church including christenings

Activities in this teaching pack include a display poster to identify and describe a special object that can be found inside a Christian church, a shared reading text to explain what happens during a church service when a child is baptised and worksheets to describe how Christians say and use prayers during a church service.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore some of the different services that are performed in a church including christenings.

This lesson is part of a religious education scheme of work to get the children to identify and explain the function and importance of churches in communities and describe how Christians use special artefacts to worship God. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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