In order to engage a wide range of students and abilities it is important to find ways to integrate religious education with other subject areas. Do you have pupils who love Maths? Do you have pupils who also love Religious Education? If so, this is the activity for them! ‘Christmas Maths’ brings together Maths skills whilst consolidating students’ knowledge of this festival. <strong>DIFFERENTIATION</strong> These differentiated activities have the advantage of combining students’ Maths skills with the enjoyment of playing. They are well differentiated to engage all students in the learning process and to enhance their learning experience. The activities are set at different levels of difficulty to help all students to achieve the learning objectives. Students can choose the activity they feel comfortable with. <strong>LEARNING INTENTIONS</strong>: The sentences / words are developed in alignment with the learning objectives for the lesson ‘Exploring Festivals Christmas’: ❄ to identify the four key features of Christmas; ❄ to explain the deeper meaning of Christmas. The activities are suitable for homework or during class activities (as a starter or plenary). Answer keys are provided for all activities! <strong> This resource contains</strong>: ❄Cover ❄Teacher notes ❄Choice 1: 10 activities ❄Choice 1: Answer Keys ❄Choice 2: 10 activities ❄Choice 2: Answer Keys ❄TOU/Credits <strong> PAGE COUNT</strong>: 31 Related Resources All puzzles **********************************************************************************

‘The True Story of Easter Presentation an Activities’ NO PREP teaching pack is fully resourced, lasts 1-2 periods, and it is suitable for KS3/KS4. This well-structured lesson aims to help students interact in a meaningful way with this feast, through a mixture of engaging activities which ensure high-quality learning experiences for all students: brainstorming, word sorting, group work, ‘write your story’, KUI activity etc. This resource also clarifies some misconceptions students may have about the Easter Story by looking at the Biblical accounts of it. Learning Intentions: the lesson is designed to help most pupils to: identify the events of Jesus’ life that are celebrated at Easter; describe 2-3 of Jesus’ appearances after the Resurrection; clarify some misconceptions about the Easter story. PLEASE NOTE: The PowerPoint, created with clearly defined progression and eye-catching images, can be used to boost vocabulary, to consolidate understanding and encourage confident thinking. The animation added to all slides helps teachers to pause whenever necessary to explain, expand or clarify any questions pupils may have. Should the teacher want to add other pieces of information which he/she thinks are relevant to the Easter story, or to change the order of the slides, this PowerPoint is fully editable to allow all of these. If you need to leave this with a supply teacher, this NO PREP resource is the perfect solution: the resource contains everything needed to deliver the lesson. The lesson is easy to follow and fun to teach. Just download, print and go! CONTENT: ✠ Cover ✠ Teacher Notes ✠ The True Story of Easter’ PowerPoint Presentation a. Editable, animated PowerPoint Presentation (23 slides) b. The presentation in PDF format ✠ Worksheets (available in colour and blackline for your convenience) ✠ TOU/Credits PAGE COUNT: 46 pages PDF format (print and file for planning) + 23 PPT SLIDES Related Resources: All Christianity Resources