A group of children have recreated the nativity as a breaking news story set where they live.<\/p>\n
The production by the youth group from Haywood village church in Weston-super-Mare had reporters and presenters as well as the traditional roles of Mary and Joseph. <\/p>\n
The Reverend Fiona Mayne said she wanted to make the Christmas story more relatable.<\/p>\n
The nativity was filmed by former students at Weston College and University of the West of England (UWE) and will be shown to family and friends at a special screening on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n
Ms Mayne said: “In our youth group we were talking about the Easter story.<\/p>\n
“I asked the young people if they would like to do it as anchors, reporters and newsreaders and write it in their own words.<\/p>\n
“It was so much fun that we thought it would be really good to do it for Christmas,” she added.<\/p>\n
The story was filmed in Ms Mayne’s garage and at other locations in the village.<\/p>\n
The pub, the Landing Light, was used for the role of innkeeper and the local shop provided gifts.<\/p>\n
Nine-year-old Elsie, who plays Mary, said she was nervous about the screening. <\/p>\n
“First of all I will be embarrassed, doing your line over and over again (in rehearsals) can be frustrating, but also I’m excited,” she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A group of children have recreated the nativity as a breaking news story set where they live. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-336437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}