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Do you need to pay to see your children's Nativity Play?

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byzantinerelics · 05/12/2023 20:01

and how much? I was a little surprised with £2 a ticket tbh!

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Elmo230885 · 05/12/2023 20:44

£2 per ticket which includes a raffle ticket

Rjahdhdvd · 05/12/2023 20:52

Yes £1 each; they use it for costume costs and props and give anything left to the PTA. I prefer it over having to buy things for costumes

Honolululu · 05/12/2023 20:52

Aturtleatemysandwich · 05/12/2023 20:14

No charge (it’s a school with a very large proportion of children on free school meals and a HT with the sensitivity to realise that charging would be completely inappropriate) but there is an unobtrusive collection at the end for a charity chosen by the children. It usually makes about £30-£50.

Edit - there is no music beyond the kids singing a couple of verses of We wish you a merry Christmas at the end and the script was written by a teacher a decade or two ago and hasn’t changed since. The only props are a couple of chairs, a box for a manger and a doll and the costumes are just paper headbands. Costs practically nothing, is really lovely and frankly I’d be horrified if they were spending money on putting on a West End musical.

Edited

I don't think any school is putting on anything like a West End musical but buying in a script is a perfectly normal thing to do. We have to do songs to fulfil the music curriculum as we lose a lot of lesson time to rehearsals. I certainly don't have time to write a script and we can't do the same play each year. Most of the props belong to my or the other teacher's children...

whereareyousleep · 05/12/2023 21:05

£2 a ticket at ours. The older ones is doing Christmas crafts and that's £2 a ticket aswell also had to send in donations for Xmas market on Friday. They requested bottles and sealed gifts! December ends up costing a small fortune! The littlest is breakfast with Santa at school next week and that cost £8 then there's Xmas jumper day and Xmas dinner on Thursday!

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