Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to understand and explain one of the key events in the nativity story about Mary’s and Joseph’s journey to Bethlehem and templates to record what some of the characters in the nativity story might have said to each other about the main events.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore what different characters might said about Mary’s and Joseph’s journey to 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.