Jordan had the lead role in the school Christmas Nativity this year!!!! No, he wasn't Joseph he was a man called Simeon who was the inn keeper's (who owned the stable) brother! the play this year was a musical called Christmas Number One written by Dave Godfrey (who specialises in maths fun days for primary school children. We laughed when Jordan told us he has a character called Bond, Number Bond!!). 
The other main characters, two boys from the present day, went back in a time rocket to the night Jesus was born to find out about the real first Christmas.
Jordan did an excellent job learning all his lines (& those of his cast members who forgot their cues!!). We were so proud of him! He had speech therapy from the age of 3 until last year so to see him on stage in front of 100 parents speaking a huge number of narrative lines with ease & confidence was just fantastic! You would never guess he struggled to get anyone to understand him just a few years ago.
Timmy & Luke & the rest of the reception class were part of the choir but at the end of the play they recited a little poem all about Father Christmas. Timmy did a wonderful job remembering all the words & actions too! We had no idea they would be doing a poem as neither of them had mentioned practising a poem at school & they didn't practise at home either!! All in all it was a brilliant play telling the real message of Christmas & how much God loves each one of us. I am so glad our boys go to a school that doesn't water the nativity story down! we were really lucky that we managed to get tickets for the play for my parents as well. We spent a lovely day with them both.
After school the same day as the Christmas play it was Jordan's cheerleading demonstration! Jordan was so excited to be able to do the cheerleading course. He was desperate to do it from the moment the NCD came to do an assembly at the school. He was so desperate that he cried when he handed me the letter all about it as he had decided that we wouldn't have enough money to be able to pay for it! Bless his heart, it was £18 for 6 weeks but he kept saying 'But it's £18! I can't go! It's £18!' How could I refuse him eh? Anyway, he loved every second of the course & Coach Darby said he was really good too. Jordan was over the moon with his special trophy award that they gave him. It is still in pride of place in his bedroom! Well, time to go & have cuppa I think! Hope you are all well & looking forward to Christmas! WE now have our tree up & decorated! Perhaps piccies will make their way onto here in the next few days....! ;o)
3 comments:
A lovely blog about a super time at school. Barbie and I felt it was very special. The boys take performance in their stride and it's great that the school gives everyone the chance to take part in a proper Christmas story written from the heart. I could see the audience of relations were really excited to see their young ones putting their all into the songs, dances and routines. From a teacher's as well as a grandparent's perspective I thought how good it was that the children looked so happy to be on stage. It was fun for us all!
Well done Timmy, Luke and Jordan the wonder boy! GrandadO xxx
Well done Jordan!! You look like you enjoyed yourself in all your roles! (cheerleading and Simeon!) Glad you all got to see the performance! xxx
Well done Jordan,who knows what the future will bring for this young man!! x x x
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