Every year, the elementary school plans an exciting project week in which the students can experience learning in a completely new way, try things out and set up a joint project. This year we got particularly creative: We created a Christmas musical together – The Robbers of Bethlehem.
During this time, the children were allowed to help design everything there was to design. There were workshops on making stage props, in which toilet paper rolls were transformed into a campfire, for example. Other workshops involved sewing costumes, making matching Christmas decorations and much more.
Singing was perhaps the biggest part of this project. Many children were able to demonstrate their talent as solo singers. But the choir also practiced incessantly, which the audience was able to witness impressively on the final evening of the performance.
In addition to the many great singing performances, many children were also able to discover their acting talent. Over the past two weeks, they have shown great stamina and dedication through intensive practice. The hard work of these children was also worth it in the end: in the performance, they impressed everyone in their roles as funny robbers, nice and wacky shepherds, a couple somewhat lost in Bethlehem and many other characters. Even the stage fright couldn’t stop them.
The kindergarten also worked hard and practiced a lot during this time. The reward was some great contributions to the Christmas musical: not only did the young participants perform their own song, they also scampered across the stage as sheep and guard dogs and presented the shepherds and robbers on stage as well as the audience in their seats with a beautiful army of angels.
It was two exciting and very fun weeks with a wonderful musical as a result, thanks to the great team of students, teachers, educators and many other CDSC employees and parents!
And to the surprise of many, our Thai staff had also prepared their own performance. Dressed up in traditional Thai outfits, they performed various activities from Thai agriculture and sang a Christmas carol together. A perfect end to this great day.
We could hardly have spent the pre-Christmas period in a better way.
Katharina Imwalle
