Lesson Six – Stained Glass Window

This religious education teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explore and illustrate some of the different ways that stories from the Bible can be presented inside a church including the use of stained glass windows.

The class can shape and combine different materials to make an example stained glass window that could be seen inside a church to relate an aspect of a Bible story.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore and illustrate some of the different ways that stories from the Bible can be presented inside a church including the use of stained glass windows

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify stories from the Bible that have been represented in artwork, shared reading texts to identify and describe what happened in a story from the Bible about Jesus and produce an example stained glass window to reflect an aspect of the story and a template to produce artwork reflecting what happened in a story from the Bible.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore some of the different ways that stories from the Bible can be presented inside a church.

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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