Our Christmas Play

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Our Christmas Play is an easy-to-perform play for use with Foundation/Reception and Key Stage One pupils. The performance is ideal as part of a whole school presentation, as a class or year group assembly, as a school production with parents and visitors present, or as a celebration in church.

In the play, the story starts and ends in Joseph's carpentry workshop. The traditional Christmas story is told through narration, mime and singing to popular nursery rhyme tunes, ensuring that pupils of all abilities are enabled to participate fully in the performance. There are also opportunities for class-based activities to enhance pupils' learning experience, such as creating readily made scenery friezes or collages, writing their own verses to the songs, or helping to make or collect some items for the props and costumes.

The play can be performed with groups of any size. Easily followed directions for setting the stage and plotting the performance are given, together with photocopy permission for all music notation and song lyrics. There is also helpful information on using simple puppets as an alternative approach to the performance, if that is desired.

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Author info

Brian Ogden was for many years a teacher and RE advisor for the dioceses of Peterborough and Chelmsford. He is author of many books in the Barnabas range including Year-Round Assemblies, Nursery Rhyme Nativities, Sing a Song of Seasons and Our Easter Play. Brian is a regular speaker in schools, typically sharing his stories and his work with hundreds of children in the course of a year.

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Reviews

From RE Centre -December 2011

This A4 paperback book is written with Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 pupils in mind. It provides guidance for a production of the Christmas story led by a narrator and told through the use of large puppets made and moved by young children. The book provides clear guidance about how to make the simple puppets with helpful illustrations and templates. There are suggested songs throughout the presentation which parents and children can sing together. They suggest well known tunes from nursery rhymes, such as Here we go round the mulberry bush and One man went to mow with simple Christmas words that the author has written (available for photocopying to ensure audience participation). This is a fun and different way to provide a worthwhile presentation for parents about the Christmas story.

Book details

• ISBN: 9781841016061
• Published: 17 September 2010
• Status:
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 32