Nativity Events

This religious education scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore the main events that occurred surrounding the birth of Jesus by composing a range of different texts to sequence and illustrate what happened. The class can compose reports, recounts, play scripts and prayers to show the events.

Explore and record some of the main events that occurred surrounding the birth of Jesus by composing a range of different texts to sequence and illustrate what happened

Lesson One : Bethlehem News
Plan and write a newspaper report describing the the sequence of events surrounding the birth of Jesus as part of the nativity story

Lesson Two : Nativity Recounts
Model how to write a recount of an event in the nativity story from the viewpoint of one of the main characters in the sequence of events

Lesson Three : Nativity Play Script
Write and perform a play script to dramatise a scene illustrating what happened in one part of the nativity story based on a Gospel from the New Testament

Lesson Four : Shepherds and Kings
Select and compose prayers that could have been recited by different characters as part of the Nativity story to reflect on what happened
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