We've finished our nativitys. We started to prep for them beginning off oct. don't think parents appreciate what goes into them our foundation stage I'm in has 61 children and they all have a speaking line to do. It's a nightmare. But most off the patents enjoy it.
Ours are nursery, different format this year, Miss tells the story, cue music; they don't sing. There will still be rollicking angels, sulky sheep and fighting shepherds. The parents who never go to church will complain that we don't sing Away in a Manger and a variety of mums will be up in arms that their little precious isn't Mary/Joseph/Angel etc I have already warned the head that one particular parent will complain that Joseph isn't white and we're eroding British values but the your mum's been good enough to give birth recently thanks for the baby cheesus is the only criteria we follow.
We didn't sing any traditional songs. But I'm still humming about the wonky donkey week and half later
We vetoed the wonky donkey one for that reason, but I can't get the Hey Ho Away We Go! out of my mind
That was always my grandads rant. I grew up being told that jesus looked like Ronnie Gould the chemist in the High Street.
My boys didn't have one this year but if they had I suspect this would have been a fair assessment ( in gest I might add!) http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/20...mitee-wwn-reviews-local-school-nativity-play/
In 2001 forensic anthropologist Richard Neave created a model of a Galilean man for a BBC documentary, Son of God, working on the basis of an actual skull found in the region. He did not claim it was Jesus's face. It was simply meant to prompt people to consider Jesus as being a man of his time and place, since we are never told he looked distinctive.
