Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to understand and explain one of the key events in the nativity story about the birth of Jesus and a template to record sentences in a speech bubble to show what a character might have said in the nativity story.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore some of the events that occurred after the birth of Jesus and the flight from Bethlehem.

This lesson is part of a religious education scheme of work to get the children to explore and record the sequence of events in the story of the birth of Jesus from the Bible using role-play and art and design activities. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.