Christmas Concert 2017
Report by Victoria Stapleton, with additional photos by Dawn Repetto
On Monday 11th December 2017, St Mary’s put on its annual Christmas Concert. As usual we had dances performed by all the children, and this year the story was broken into two parts. We saw how Christmas was being celebrated on Tristan in 1960, and we also saw what was happening in the North Pole with Santa Claus and his team.
St Mary's School Christmas Play 2017 - the final carols.
The first dance was performed by Class 4 and Class 5 and choreographed by the children. Then Playgroup and Class 1 performed a teddy bear dance choreographed by Miss Shelia. The last dance was performed by Class 2 and Class 3 and was choreographed by Miss Sandra. As always, the children showed that Tristanians love a good dance and they performed these dances superbly.
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Nathan, Chloe and Randall were great as Santa Claus, Grandpa Claus and Mrs Claus. Santa had the flu and had to learn to share the workload as he was too ill to deliver the presents. Santa’s elves made an appearance to try to make him better and these parts were played by Kailey, Lucas, Connor and Aiden and Katie was Mrs Claus’ helper. Luckily, Mrs Claus saved the day but stepping in. Shannon, Julie, Chantelle, Amber, Deanna played the parts of the island ladies and Kieran, Ryan, Tristan, Callum, Dylan and Jamie played the parts of island men as well as being a sheep, a cow and the Okololies. They also played the parts using the Tristan dialect which everyone enjoyed. |
| Christmas family at the North Pole (L-R): Chloe Glass, Nathan Swain, Randall Repetto, Katie Repetto, Kailey Swain, Aiden Repetto & Lucas Swain | |
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| The island men (L-R): Dylan Green, Ryan Swain, Callum Green, Tristan Glass, Kieran Glass & Jamie Glass | Deanna Rogers reacts to the Okalolies. |
The island ladies (L-R): Julie Green, Chantelle Repetto, Amber Repetto, Deanna Rogers & Shannon Swain
A huge well done to the children who have worked really hard this term practicing their dancing, speaking parts as well as putting in a huge amount of effort to decorate the school for the concert. I think everyone who was there will agree they performed superbly.
Thank you to all the teachers for their hard work. Thank you to Miss Renee, Miss Anne and Mr Len for writing the play, Miss Renee and Miss Julia for directing, Miss Maria for the lovely costumes, Miss Sandra and Miss Sheila for their choreography as well as directing scene changes backstage and Miss Victoria for scenery.
And lastly thank you to everyone who came to support the children and for being a great audience.