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Pics of the nativity play
Creator Cotton, Olive, 1911-2003 Call Number PIC Drawer PM 2543 #PIC/P1662/E Created/Published 1957 Extent 1 photograph : gelatin silver matt ; image 25.4 x 26.4 on sheet 30.4 x 40.3 cm. View Catalogue
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Cotton, Olive. (1957). Nativity play, Cucumgilliga Primary School, 1957 Retrieved ноября 9, 2023, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-136348514
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Nativity plays in Oxford – photos from over the years
It is that time of year when children take a break from lessons and prepare for their annual Nativity plays.
Generations of parents will remember watching proudly as their youngsters re-enacted the birth of Christ in the run-up to Christmas.
Picture 1 was taken at Rose Hill First School in Oxford in 1982 when 25 children in the nursery unit told the festive story.
Zoe Harris and Stuart Harris, both four, played the key roles of Mary and Joseph while their fellow pupils became Kings of the Orient, angels and shepherds.
Parents had helped teachers prepare the outfits the children wore, and the Nativity play the children performed earned loud applause from a packed hall.
The Young Caribbean Enterprise group, in Picture 2, brought Christmas cheer to Blackbird Leys when they staged a Nativity play in 1977.
Melvina Jeffers sat down and wrote the script at her home in Ashmole Place on the Oxford estate one day when she was bored.
After the performance at the Church of the Holy Family, the group were looking forward to further activities – a production of the Last Supper in the church on Good Friday followed by calypso-style song and dance entertainment at Blackbird Leys carnival.
There were plenty of smiles, too, when pupils at Headington Quarry Primary School in Oxford, in Picture 3, staged their Nativity play in 1996.
Kayleigh Walker and Mathew Edney took the parts of Mary and Joseph and the angels were Jordan Wright, Emily Freeman Bell, Katie Honey, Chloe Palmer, Sarah Scott, Tiliza Andrews and Victoria Beckett.
Cut-out animals, in Picture 4, gave a rustic touch to the Nativity play at Windmill First School in Headington in 1989.
The hand-painted cardboard cattle and sheep were made by pupils in their art lessons during the year.
Picture 5 shows the four angels in the production at St Christopher’s Primary School at Cowley in 1996 – we know only the first names of the pupils, Jessica (back), Ruckahana (left), Cationa (right) and Georgina (front).
Baby Jesus, in Picture 6, was given a touch of lipstick as children at Garsington Nursery playgroup performed the Christmas story for parents and friends in 1991.
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