Would you be happy seeing your child's nativity play in person?

[Barbie222]

Government guidelines today state that in tier 1 and 2, nativity plays can be performed to parents in school halls. As a teacher, given how strict we've been about everything, I feel uneasy about this. How do parents feel?
YABU - I'll go without worries
YANBU - should be videoed / streamed

Ours aren't having one at all, I am good with that. Staff have enough to be getting on with, it won't kill anyone to have no school play this year.

Ours have done a performance already and filmed it. Which I’m pleased about.

Oh it's a shame I would love to attend, my DD only started reception this year and I've been looking forward to a school play since she was born!!

I don't think my school will be doing it as I've heard absolutely nothing about a play.

Our school is filming the Christmas performance that each class is doing.

I honestly can't see any logic to going from no parents on site to suddenly having a hall full of people. The hall isn't particularly big and only has one outside door so ventilation would be very poor. Additionally cases are actually rising where I live driven by a surge in cases at a local secondary school (over 50 cases in a week). It's not a school my children attend but given the prevalence of Covid in the area I would rather my children's schools remained cautious.

My kids is being videod but we are tier 3 and I am happy with that. Having said that, when my DS started reception in Sept I was invited to a welcome meeting in the hall with the whole classes parents. I was surprised but all chairs were 2m apart, all doors wide open and had to sanitise etc. It's a very big hall though.

I started another thread yesterday saying how amazed I was to see this allowed. It seems to fly in the face of all the other measures being enacted in schools to minimise spread, and would be an utter nightmare for any primary school to organise.

The competition for nursery and primay nativity / Christmas productions in normal years is fierce and schools already have to manage parents' expectations and, in some cases, an unreasonable sense of entitlement to bring their extended family to repeat performances. How many performances would those poor 5 year olds and their teachers and TAs have to put on to allow all families to attend with social distancing. I was trying to work out how many people on infant chairs we usually fit into a 2m square. 12 probably!

And given how difficult it has proved to persuade some parents to observe distancing and wearing of masks at drop off and pick up times outside, I pity the school staff trying to police that in the hall. Some parents won't move from the front row (reserved for disabled spectators) or refuse to sit down to allow people behind them to see, even at the best of times.
And right at the end of term too, as the country heads into Christmas bubbles.
Unbelievable.

But if a parent goes to the papers to say that granny is being made to miss their last chance to see little Maisie in her first Nativity, the government can say that it was all the school's decision, rather than making the sensible, adult, responsible decision and sympathising while restating that we are in a global pandemic and it just isn't safe at this time.

Ours is usually done as infants together and juniors together. This year classes can’t mix so they’re still doing the same play but no mixed scenes. It’ll be pieced together in the recording.

Our school decided a while back (before any talk of returning to tiers) it was going to be recorded, mine are juniors and they are practicing their section on various days this week. It will be put together by one of the teachers and sent out via Google classrooms. I can't see why schools are even considering having people in to watch.

I wouldn't be happy but that was the case before covid. The acting is usually terrible and there's never a bar.

Ours has been filmed, which I'm pleased about. However, DC's school have been nothing short of brilliant during the whole pandemic, so ultimately, I'd trust them completely if they had decided to perform to parents and go.

Thank you all. Just clarifying that we will also be filming ours as the parents and staff are for once speaking with one voice! Sounds like it's the majority voice here too.

YANBU

We are tier 3 so ours at being recorded and uploaded to the school blogs.
We wouldn't be able to space everyone out in the hall anyway, not even 1m let alone 2m.

Our infant school is doing a virtual Christmas play (not a nativity) and DS’s class are all elves. I’m assuming they’re not mixing with the other class bubbles - I’ll be a bit cross if they are when DS has been separated from his best friend all term because they’re in different classes. I’m quite relaxed about covid but I wouldn’t want to be crammed into our tiny school hall a couple of weeks before Christmas in a pandemic.

No they bore me to tears 🤣

Tier 2 and each class bubble is being filmed doing some songs and jokes etc. I would not want to be in a hall with parents at the moment, nor do I imagine the teachers would want us there!

Please can someone link to this guidance? Can’t find it! :(