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


  • Money Division

    Money Division

    Model and record how to divide a selection of money amounts by different numbers with quotients using remainders

  • Money Division Tens

    Money Division Tens

    Practise selecting and dividing a range of different money amounts by ten with matching remainders in the number quotients

  • Money Division Eights

    Money Division Eights

    Practise selecting and dividing a range of different money amounts by eight with matching remainders in the number quotients

  • Money Division Fives

    Money Division Fives

    Practise selecting and dividing a range of different money amounts by five with matching remainders in the number quotients