1. The Bible as Good News
Foundation Stage

2. PowerPoint Introduction
This PowerPoint sample lesson is intended as a resource for schools to be used ‘how and when’ they choose. This Foundation Stage lesson is planned to be set in the context of developing the theme of ‘The Bible as Good News’. It can be used selectively as part of ongoing work in Religious Education based on the theme of ‘The Bible’ or as part of another area in the curriculum eg Special Stories/Books ’Understanding the World’ ELG There are notes on each slide for teachers’ reference. Schools may prefer to edit the slides and use photographs of their own. The following slide gives the context of the lesson in the bigger picture. Schools may like to explore other questions in different year groups within the theme ‘The Bible as Good News.’ A PowerPoint Key Stage 2 Year 6 sample lesson also based on the theme of ‘The Bible as Good News’ can be found on the Chester Diocesan website.

3. Context Overview
Area of Content from Chester Diocesan Guidelines to be studied: ‘The Bible’
Theme: The Bible as Good News Underpinning Christian Concept: Good News
Definition: Good news (gospel) The message of Jesus concerning the salvation/rescue of those who choose to follow him.
Note: the gospels are Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and can be found in the New Testament.
Key Questions
FS/Key Stage 1: Theme: The Bible as Good News
Reception: What is good news? What good news stories do we find in the Bible?
Year 1: Level 1: What good news stories did Jesus tell in the Bible? Why are these stories Jesus told important to Christians?
Year 2: Level 2: How does the Bible show Jesus living his life as good news to people?
What do some stories in the New Testament teach about Jesus being good news?
Key Stage 2: Theme: The Bible as Good News
Year 3: Level 3: How do the stories of Jesus in the Bible encourage his disciples to live as good news to people?
How do Christians try to live as good news to people?
Year 4: Level 3/4: How do the gospels encourage Christians to live as good news in the world today?
How does believing they have good news to share with people make a difference to a Christian’s
life?
Year 5: Level 4/5: How do Christians believe that God speaks good news to people through the life of Jesus?
Year 6: Level 5 Why is Jesus being the ‘light of the world’ good news for Christians?
How do the signs in John’s gospel in the Bible help us explain Jesus as good news?
Teachers Notes: The context of a bigger picture

4. Teachers Notes
FS Lesson : Reception Theme: The Bible as Good News Concept underpinning work: Good News Key Questions: What is good news? What good news stories do we find in the bible? Lesson Objective: To understand a good news story Jesus told.
Lesson Outcomes:
(Emerging)
I can talk about a story from the
gospels.
(Expected)
I can describe how Christians might
think of a gospel story as being ‘Good
News’.
(Exceeding)
I can explain why some gospel stories
might be important to Christians.
Teachers Notes
NB Teachers notes explaining how to use each slide within the context of the lesson can be found on the bottom of each slide in the notes section. These should be read before using the PowerPoint. Preview all Internet links before using.
Next Steps: Why are some Bible stories very important to Christians?

5. Tell your partner about a time when you have helped someone
Tell your partner about a time when you have helped someone? Tell them about a time you have been helped.
Teacher’s Notes: Ask: Tell your partner about a time when you have helped someone? Tell them about a time you have been helped. How did you feel?

6. Have you helped someone at school?
STAR of the Week
Teacher’s Notes: Ask: Have you ever helped someone at school? Feedback.
NB Draw attention to any system of rewards you have in school for ‘helping’ (not academic)? Give examples.

7. One Bible Story http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53Pqw20xK10 (no words)
(animated version with story) max7
Teacher’s Notes: Explain: We are going to watch a story from the New Testament part of the Bible.) Explain: There are no words in this story, watch carefully and see if you can guess what is happening. (NB choose one of the stories to watch Version 1 of the story has instrumental music to accompany it and no words are spoken at all). After the story has been watched
Ask: What do you think this story is about?
Explain: We are going to tell the story again and see if we can work out what Jesus wanted the man to understand?

8. Teacher’s Notes: A man came to Jesus and asked, Who is my neighbour
Teacher’s Notes: A man came to Jesus and asked, Who is my neighbour? NB Check understanding of neighbour.
Background Information for this story (The Good Samaritan) can be found on the notes section of Slide 18

9. Teacher’s Notes: Jesus told a story to explain his answer ‘There was once a man who was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho.

10. Teacher’s Notes: ‘Robbers attacked him, took his robes, and beat him up, leaving him half dead.

11. Teacher’s Notes: ‘A little time later a priest was going down that road, but when he saw the man, he walked on by on the other side.

12. Teacher’s Notes: ‘Another priest arrived next, went over and looked at the man, and then walked on by on the other side.

13. Teacher’s Notes: ‘Then a Samaritan who was travelling that way came by
Teacher’s Notes: ‘Then a Samaritan who was travelling that way came by. When he saw him, he stopped to help. He went over to him, poured oil and wine on his wounds and bandaged them.

14. Teacher’s Notes: Then he put the man on his own animal and took him to an inn.

15. Teacher’s Notes: ‘Then he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper. “Take care of him,” he told the innkeeper, “and when I come back this way, I will pay you whatever else you spend on him.”’

16. Teacher’s Notes: After telling the story Jesus said to the man ‘Who do you think was his neighbour?’ The man answered, ‘The one who was kind to him and looked after him.’ Jesus replied, ‘Now I want you to go and do the same.’

17. If everyone in this room helped each other all the time – what
Think:
If everyone in this room helped
each other all the time – what
would it be like?
Teacher’s Notes: Ask the class now to think carefully about this question for a few moments. ‘If everyone in this room helped each other all the time what would it be like?

18. Why is the Good Samaritan a good news story?
Teacher’s Notes: Ask the class now to think carefully about this question for a few moments: Why is the Good Samaritan a good news story? Share ideas with rest of the class. Finish the lesson by getting the children to draw a picture that shows what is good news in this story.
Background Notes:
A parable is a comparison. It can be simile or a metaphor or it can be a complete story with a meaning. Jesus used parables to teach about God.
They were often simple stories with hidden meanings. The listener was allowed to interpret the meaning for themselves. Each parable shows a picture of this world but offers understanding of another world/ spiritual world/God.
The Good Samaritan Luke 10:25-37
The lawyer was testing Jesus about whether ‘neighbour’ is restricted to the Jews. Samaritans were part of Judaism but worshipped outside Jerusalem at another Temple and so had separated themselves away from the mainstream Jews. As with many religions, one group did not agree or support the other. Both a Levite and a priest would have been anxious about their safety on an isolated road of about 15 miles. They would have been unfit to work in the Temple if they had touched a dead person, but since they are ‘going down that way’ they would have been going away from the Temple and so had even less excuse not to stop. The Samaritan (from a different country, and someone whom the Jews would have considered unclean, an outcast, and avoided) seems the least likely person to come to the man's aid when compared to the religious priest and Levite.
The Samaritans were the ones least expected to offer help to a Jew from Jerusalem. The neighbour whom Jesus says the man should love, turns out to be, not just his friends and family, but those who are his enemies. This illustrates that one's neighbour is not dictated by religion, nationality, family, or anything else for that matter, but simply by the fact that they are there. In Jesus' church, anyone can be a neighbour to anyone else.
Oil and wine were used as antiseptic for dressing wounds.

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