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Schools should stage Nativity plays despite Covid concerns because they are important traditions, the schools minister has urged.
Robin Walker said he would like to see ‘as many going forward as possible’ this Christmas amid reports of many cancellations.
Whitmore Primary School in Essex last week announced it was cancelling its in-person end-of-term performance. Instead, each class will perform its own Nativity play, which will be recorded for parents, to ‘prevent the spread of Covid’.
Meanwhile at Wyke Regis Primary Federation in Dorset all Christmas activities will be ‘limited to in-school only and will be shared online with parents’.
And Cranborne Primary School in Hertfordshire has told parents they can only watch the Nativity play remotely.
But yesterday Mr Walker said: ‘I want to see schools continuing to engage with parents in as constructive a way as they possibly can.
‘Of course, where they can go ahead safely, things like Nativity plays and end-of-term shows are really important and a good way of doing that. I would want to see as many going forward as possible.’
Schools should stage Nativity plays despite Covid concerns because they are important traditions, Schools Minister Robin Walker has urged
When asked whether it was wrong for schools to axe in-person Nativity
