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Download our free teachers’ support material and save yourself hours of planning time!

The comprehensive teachers’ support material provides a wealth of activity suggestions linked to each of our resources. Each activity suggestion is linked to the areas of learning for the EYFS curriculum for England and the Foundation Phase curriculum for Wales. The support material illustrates how our resources can support a range of popular topics and how the beliefs and culture element of the Early Years curriculum can be easily included in a cross-curricular approach.

Teachers' Support Material for England

Teachers' Support Material for Wales

Welsh language Teachers' Support

In addition to the teachers’ planning support material we have produced the following classroom resources which we hope you find useful.

Church Helpers' Rota
Copy and laminate this ‘writing for purpose sheet’ and place in the church role-play area to give children hours of fun playing the characters from Puddles Lends A Paw.

Key Stage 1 / FP Years 1 and 2: What do I know about a mosque?
This Windows Movie Maker resource encourages Year 1 and 2 pupils to think about what they know already about a mosque and what they can learn from the ‘movie’. It provides good extension work to our traditional Muslim stories which focus on caring for the natural world.

Early Years children: Learning about a mosque
This Windows Movie Maker resource introduces young children to the idea of a mosque as a special place for prayer for Muslims. It has been designed specifically at an appropriate level for children in nursery settings and reception classes.

Mosques in Turkey

This photostory captures the wide range of mosques, from town to country, visited by the author on her recent holiday to Turkey. It is accompanied by traditional Turkish music. This resource could be used with more able KS1 pupils and KS2 pupils as a stimulus to further research into the structure, design, purpose and importance of the mosque for Muslim communities across the world. Look out for furry friends relating to our traditional Muslim story Seven New Kittens!

Call To Prayer

Listen to the Muslim call to prayer known as the adhan. This has been downloaded from www.islamcan.com where there are many other versions of the call to prayer which can be listened to alongside lots of useful information and other free resources.

Puddles Visits Kenya
This lovely photostory has been produced from photographs kindly supplied by Lisa Wilkinson, RE Co-ordinator at Goytre Fawr Primary School, Monmouthshire. Here we see Puddles visiting Kenya and finding out about school and church life in the village of Kiraro. This is a fabulous resource to use with all ages as an insight into other cultures around the world.

Puddles Visits Carlisle Cathedral

Here we see Puddles and Freddie exploring the different areas of Carlisle Cathedral. Use this photostory as a resource in itself and / or as a stimulus for planning a visit with Puddles and Freddie to your local church.

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