Nativity pay to view

[Brumbies]

Since when have schools charged £10 to see the children in their nativity. In all my years working in schools, and as a parent and grandparent, I've never known it.

That’s outrageous, I’ve never heard of it either. It’s even worse due to the cost of living crisis.

Since school budgets became so tight they have to do whatever they can to get some extra cash, and they are probably trying to offset some of the costs of production too.
What they probably should do is give 2 tickets free and charge more for additional ones.

So a Ticket is £10?

The school I teach in charges 75p a ticket. If each child has 2 people come to watch we break even on the performance licence, if they have more it goes towards the costumes and scenery.
The nativity is almost always run at a loss.
The end of year, year 6 performance usually breaks even (we charge £2.50 a ticket for this).

DS’s school charge £2 a ticket with maximum of 2 tickets available per child.

Last year they recorded the show and charged £15 for a DVD of it. This year though there is a child/children whose parents don’t want them included in pics or recordings so they’re not going to tape it.

The school have now sent round a follow up message to say the £10 is voluntary. Me thinks a few parents have queried it.

That's beyond reasonable unless it's a private school, in which case you signed up for capitalism!

Crikey that’s a lot! I think a suggested donation of a pound or two is fine but £10 per ticket sounds a bit much,

It's common in secondary schools to sell tickets and the money goes into the school fund (to pay for more plays, that scenery paint doesn't buy itself) but I've never heard of it for a primary school, most of them do shoestring performances that require very little outlay (or the parents pay for the kids' costumes).

We paid £5 a ticket for the Secondary school musical!

A couple of pounds a ticket seems reasonable... they aren't free to put on.

It's a ks1 nativity - a 20 min performance, usual baby Jesus born experience 😀

Ours are £5 here a ticket

We paid £4 ticket.
£10 is outrageous.😮

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