Best Practice

Christmas performances and how to salvage them

Pre-recorded films, live streamed performances or other ideas and approaches – how is your school or class approaching the traditional end-of-term spectacular? Ben Case looks at the options


As the end-of-term draws near, many primary school teachers and leaders will be thinking about what their class, key stage or whole school annual winter performance might look like.

It has been a very tough term and you would be forgiven for coming a bit late to this issue with so much going on around us.

For some, Christmas performances mean preparing an Oscar award-winning show, whereas for others the struggle of just getting the children to learn the words or stay on a stage is quite enough to handle!

Come the performance day though, none of that matters. Children look nervously out for someone they recognise, and expectant audience members crane their necks looking for their beloved. The first song starts, and all the hard work pays off.

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