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Celebration
Location: Cumbria
Celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ has always been the most significant part of the Christmas activities in school. This remains a key part of classroom activities every year.
For many children, the participation in Christmas events is one of the lasting memories of their time in school. For parents, too, there is something especially wonderful about seeing your children take part in school performances, and the opportunity to share photographs and more recently video footage with family and friends.
A rich array of costumes usually adds to the flavour of the performances, and many parents have been an enormous help over the years creating special costumes for school use, of providing wonderful clothing for their own children to add to the overall effect.
The most often used venue has been the school hall, although the performances were held in a two other venues from 1970 - 1972. The Christmas plays were first held in Newbiggin Village hall in 1970, which enabled more people to watch the plays on the stage, in relative comfort. In 1971, the hire of Newbiggin Village Hall for the school Christmas plays was just £1.50.
In 1996, with changing regulations regarding space, the decision was taken to introduce a ticket system, limiting the number of people in the school hall.
For the last two years there have been nine or ten separate performances, with pairs of year groups preparing their own plays. It takes this many performances in the small school hall in order to fit everyone in who wants to enjoy the children’s excellent performances.
There are many traditional activities associated with Easter, and Stainton School has shared in a number of these over the years. Children have had the opportunity to create a wide range of Easter cards, Easter bonnets / hats, and more. Some of these have been focussed on classroom activities and others have been encouraged at home. They all contribute to the important celebration of the real Easter story, remembering the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ as the Saviour.
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