Comments on: Many people in Britain know little about the nativity

by: Rushda

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:25:15 +0000

Of course I’m sure you can have a lot of fun with other plays, but in my school we had countless other ones but none really stuck in my mind so much. Perhaps it was the repetition of the same one each year with all the Christmas carols (and it was simple enough for little old me to understand!) but whatever the reason, I’m sure if I hadn’t watched or been in so many nativity plays (yes, even when I was a lamb), I would have definitely missed out. As for being taught it in R.E. - that would never have entertained me quite so much. In fact, being non-religious I would have been intensely bored, I just liked the funky story when acted out.

by: Virgil Ierubino

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 05:29:12 +0000

Whilst I agree that the nativity plays at school were great fun, I disagree that they were a necessary condition for having fun. All the “festivities, the community spirit, and … general excitement” can be had in any number of non-Nativity school plays - and indeed only one play at my school was ever religious. Whilst it is sad for people to forget such an ancient myth, this is a tragedy separate from whether or not schools put on Nativity plays. R.E. lessons can keep kids knowledgeable of traditions, and in my mind there are far more exciting school plays to be put on than the Nativity.