Nursery World - What a performance

Nursery teacher <STRONG> Jenny Ellis </STRONG> is haunted by a ghost of Christmas past when she organised an end-of-term show where children didn't always stick to the script

Nursery teacher Jenny Ellis is haunted by a ghost of Christmas past when she organised an end-of-term show where children didn't always stick to the script

Every nursery teacher will recognise the phenomenon that is the 'children's performance' at Christmas time. In the past, this would be the Nativity, but nowadays, sensitive to the multi-ethnicity in our schools, we often produce a more generalised concert or play to show off the children's dramatic and musical abilities.

In the large nursery that I ran in a south London primary school, I enjoyed creating our end-of term performances. Last time, I wrote a short story entitled 'The Most Beautiful Gift'. It carried a gentle but meaningful message, wrapped up in a repertoire of songs and action rhymes, with an accumulating heap of colourful nursery-made props - gifts for Father Christmas.

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