Lesson Three – Stable and Manager

This religious education teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to design and produce a selection of Christmas cards to illustrate and celebrate the birth of Jesus as part of the nativity story by referencing one scene from the narrative.

The class can identify and explain how to use shapes and colour shades to show the meaning of religious beliefs and stories when making their Christmas cards.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to design and produce a selection of Christmas cards to illustrate and celebrate the birth of Jesus as part of the nativity story by referencing one scene from the narrative

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 in a stable in Bethlehem and templates to design and produce a Christmas card to celebrate the birth of Jesus as part of the nativity story.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to produce Christmas cards to celebrate the birth of Jesus as part of the nativity story.

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.

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