Festive Treat at Town Park Pets Corner
Primary Drama students from year 3 to year 6 braved the threat of wind and rain to perform their Nativity plays to hundreds of delighted audience members on Sunday 10th December. The annual Nativity play in the Town Park venue has become a firm favourite for many hundreds of supporters of Pets Corner as well as Phoenix parents and they too braved the wind and rain to support the event. In the end the much forecast bad weather didn’t materialise and both performances went off without a hitch. At midday the year 3 and 4 students performed a very traditional Nativity, accompanied by Carol singing from Phoenix Musical Theatre students. Later in the day, Year 5 and 6 students performed a very contemporary re-telling of the Nativity story including a big screen with live close-up camera work and pre-recorded pop videos, as well as a Dragons Den pastiche involving 3 modern day Kings!
Organisers at Pets Corner were delighted with the 2 productions which helped raise the profile of the closure threatened petting zoo and raised much needed cash. Phoenix would like to thank all those involved, particularly Chris Buck from CBSVL who gave his time and equipment FOC, as did video editor Zulqua Cheema. We very much hope that Pets Corner will still be thriving next year and that the Annual Phoenix Nativity will continue.
Our pictures show Joseph (James Beavis) and Mary (Kirsty Ottosen-Gowlett) making their way to Bethlehem while students from Years 5 and 6 sing in their performance. More pictures can be found at The Phoenix Facebook page.