Pupils at Frodsham Manor House Primary will be perfoming their Christmas play this week after illness delayed their festivities

Jan 13 2011 by Rachel Flint, Chester Chronicle

Pupils at Frodsham Manor House Primary will be perfoming their Christmas play this week after illness forced delayed their festivities

CHILDREN at a Frodsham primary school are staging a delayed performance of the Christmas nativity following a flu virus.

Pupils at Frodsham Manor House Primary School, were forced to stop rehearsals for their production Ralph the Reindeer after illness swept through the school.

The illness throughout the school in the weeks before Christmas also caused the school fair to be cancelled.

Now the Christmas play, which sees odd job reindeer Ralph attempt to replace a flu stricken Rudolph as the leader of the sleigh, will be performed this week.

Dressed as reindeers, toys, snowflakes, elves and angels, the children will perform on three nights, to a packed audience of friends and family.

Director of the play and year 2 teacher, Jackie Bate, said: “The children are doing three sold out performances this week, and we know they will be true stars at each one.”

Headteacher Ian Devereux-Roberts said: “The determination of the children to still perform and the support of our families has been outstanding.”

For one song the pupils are joined by preschool children from Playden, who dressed as elves to sing in the play.