Keeplewray - Sir John Barrow School

Today we were up at Keeplewray Christian Centre in Broughton. We had been asked to entertain a group of school children and this afternoon it was the year 3 class from Sir John Barrow School. We took the stage set for the nativity and all the costumes we had and began to tell a story to the children - but as Sarah started I stopped her and said that the rest of the cast for the play hadn't turned up and that all the children would have to go back to school and do lessons - but Sarah said that maybe the children might like to help us. I didn't think they would want to but they did (we kind of hoped they would). So Sarah started the story of Christmas as I picked children out to be actors in the story. We moved around the room, with the sheep and shepherds, I played the part of the Roman Emperor as well as King Herod. Lots of laughing later we completed the story. Then we sang Away in a Manger before we brought out Gary. Now Gary was far to busy getting his list together to be bothered with the children however Sarah did make him watch a short video about Christmas. It is the same one we have shown to all our schools this year, the children sang along to the 'We wish it could be Christmas everyday' song until the baby cried and the nativity scene came back on. Gary threw his list away and ran off to tell Mark all about what he had learnt. I then finished off the session with a reminder of what Christmas is about. We sang 'Great big God' and said a prayer and the children left. We do it all again on Thursday with a different school.