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shut it you
c
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with a name like yours catherine
you should be in the play lol


The Virgin Mary from Manchester
pmsl

mine are now to old for school plays but when thay used to do them i loved going to see them

xxx

Those where the days

yep thay where

xxx

It was my first year as a teacher and I had written and directed the musical Nativity play for the junior department. The infants were doing a little panto (which I'd also written). We alternated year by year.

To say I was feeling stressed would be an understatement.

We rehearsed twice a week after school. One of the shepherds (aged 11) lived next door but 2 to me and I had baby sat him from when he was small.

He had taken great exception to me suddenly becoming a teacher in his school and his parents had told him he had to call me "Miss" in school. This he refused to do and managed to get by without calling me anything.

On the last night he and the other shepherds were waiting to go on behind me in the wings. Mary and Joseph were onstage pleading with the Innkeeper. Mary was suppose to have baby Jesus concealed in her luggage. S (as I shall call him) suddenly spotted the baby Jesus in the wings near us.

He quite forgot all formalities,

"Bluddy Hell, Gwynne, she's only gone and forgotten Jesus!"

Realising he had committed two faux pas in one short sentence (swearing and calling a teacher by her first name) he clamped his hands over his mouth and whined, "Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

The other shepherds were stunned and stood with gaping mouths waiting for a thunderbolt to strike.

Meanwhile Mary had realised what she had done and her eyes were filling with tears as she looked towards the wings where Jesus lay. The Angel Gabriel was on the ball and picked up the doll and signaled to Mary that she would bring it on.

So the show went on. S muttered, "Sorrysorrysorrysorry" until it was time to go on and then forgot all his lines. The other shepherds covered for him manfully and all was well in the end.

S's parents treated me to a stiff drink in the pub later that night.

Gwynne (wondering what possessed her to choose teaching as a career)

Gwynne that's so funny.

Our school is not doing anything this year as the school is going through some major building work. It should have been my youngest first school play, I will miss it but never mind.

Julia

Lol Gwynne
........because we loved the children.

Your story reminds me of a teaching collegue who went to work in another school where they decided to thoroughly acquaint the children with the story, then let the children ad.lib. the lines.
...What possessed them?

All was going well, Mary safely delivered the baby and was greeting visitors to the stable.
...(Said in broad Brummie accents )

Visitor:-...Hello Mary, how are you?

Mary:- Oh I'm OK but the babby's been a little b..... all day.


Gwyn

Out of the mouth of babes......lol.
I really miss the school plays, mine are too old now

~~~~~~~waves to all ~~~~~~~~~
Ally xx

Ive been to everyone of my kids school plays i wouldnt miss them for the world even though each performance i would make a prat of myself and cry in public lol still have all the pics labelled with the year and the programmes to each.

n

WE loved them all.

We never had the money for a cine camera, and often not the price of a film for the camera.... but in my memory.... they will last forever.

Deanna X