Leading Article: Nativity lessons
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Your support makes all the difference.Anyone who thinks that staging a nativity play is provocative to non-Christian children should read our story about Hurstbourne Tarrant Church of England Primary School's decision to perform their play in French. It shows that nativity plays can be educational. Moreover it is a wonderful attempt to promote modern foreign languages in the primary sector, something that we wholeheartedly approve of. Let us hope that other schools will follow in their footsteps. Nativity plays tell the story of the birth of Jesus; they are not and should not be prosyletising occasions for the Christian faith.
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