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Message: Hello! I saw this Tried & Tested Review on Teach Primary Magazine's website and thought you might like it - please find an excerpt below: Baubles! Angel Express If you watch Nativity! with frustrated and underachieving primary school teacher Mr Maddens then you’ll immediately identify with him and know the pain he’s going through. It’s a brilliant film to watch sometime in autumn as it will gear you up for the second-half term and what you are up against especially if you don’t have a teaching assistant like Mr Poppy. Yes a nativity can be a terrifying prospect, especially if you have never done one and that’s why there are some many ready-made productions and scripts available to help save your reputation and prevent you from getting a one star rating in the local rag. Although there are plenty of Christmas plays to choose from, not all of them quite live up to their own hype which means mayhem is never really that far away. What makes a good nativity? They are simple, thought-provoking, entertaining, and flexible enough to make changes right up to the last second. Out of the Ark Music do this rather well and have created two more for their rather impressive collection of 30 Christmas plays which I can highly recommend. If you are looking for humour then you have come to the right place. One of the best-loved productions I have seen over the years that never seems to lose its popularity is “Whoops-a-Daisy Angel”. This is a great nativity but if a school keeps repeating it year on year, then people soon notice and jaded teachers lose the passion to put on a show-stopper. Perhaps it’s time to rejuvenate your own nativity plans and if so then the author of this popular play has now also penned “Angel Express” for KS1. “Angel Express” follows the excitement of a choir of angels as they hastily practise a new song for the birth of baby Jesus and the question is whether the conductor can prepare them in time with headlines distracting everyone such as ‘Mary and Joseph Leave for Bethlehem’ and ‘Enormous Star Seen In The East’. This is a 25 minute triumph and pitched perfectly for children ages 3-6 years. You get a Teacher’s book with a cast list, staging ideas, curriculum links, script and music score and lyrics for 7 songs and the accompanying CD has all the vocal tracks which are beautifully sung by children and professional backing tracks. This is yet another twist on the traditional nativity story but one to applaud and revel in as a… If you want to read the full article, please visit: https://www.teachprimary.com/tried_and_tested/view/baubles-angel-express Thanks!