Christmas with the Aliens

Thank you for coming to watch our magnificent Christmas performance this morning. The children haven't stopped talking about it all day, they really enjoyed being on stage and showing off all of their wonderful singing and loud speaking. They had so looked forward to sharing their nativity play with you and all came off the stage wanting to talk about how happy and smiley you all were as you watched it.

As Mrs Scarisbrick said, your children have been involved in every part of the production. They made posters to advertise their play, wrote invitations, created tickets during their computing lesson and even created their very own programme. We hope that you all got to see one of the programmes that were placed on your seats.  Your children worked as a class team to organise each page needed. We had teams creating a picture for the front cover, teams compiling a cast list and organising labels and photos, teams working together to write a succinct and informative blurb and a very technologically advanced team videoing themselves saying a thank you for our thank you page. This was then turned into a QR code by Mr Scarisbrick.

Alongside all of this was some very complicated problem solving...we had to think about how to set out the chairs for you all to sit on and decide where best to sit on the stage. Before Zack left, he made a very good director. He ensured all of the children were using their loud voices by standing at the back of the hall and giving a big thumbs up. He suggested that he needed a clipboard so that he could note down any changes that he felt necessary.

Of course, we must say another big thank you to you! Our Stay and Play was a big success and I am sure you will agree that your creativity in making backdrops, props and costumes really added to the play today. Your children were so proud to have had a part in creating the whole stage design and were excitedly telling their friends which parts you had
helped to make.

 Well done to all of our singers who sang 'Let it go'! We had to squeeze that popular song in somewhere. Yumiko  played the  Alien/Frozen super fan very well.

Our wonderful narrators worked with Mrs Gill to accompany our 'three kings song' with percussion instruments. They kept a very steady beat and remembered not to play when the kings were singing their solo lines. There were a lot of children singing solos today! We are incredibly proud of how confidently and beautifully they all sang. (Mrs Lewis and I could never rehearse those parts with dry eyes!!..Today was no exception) All of the foxes and otters sang beautifully today and really helped to tell the story by singing all of the words clearly.

We are incredibly proud of all of the foxes and otters! We had very high expectations of them and they exceeded them all...

At the end of the day Tilly asked what time we were performing tomorrow! All of the children have enjoyed the whole process of putting on a production and said how special they felt on stage in their costumes. Thank you for coming to watch and letting your children feel what it is like to perform to a happy and proud audience. Like Tilly, I just wish we could perform it over and over again.


Please leave a comment under this blog post so that we can share what you thought with your children during snack times this week.


Thank you again,


Miss Sullivan, Mrs Lewis, Mrs Sturrock and Mrs Balmer.