Christmas tree festival – Dec 2011

One of JA's school projects was to help decorate the entry into the Christmas Tree Festival at St Mary Magdalene (the parish church at the centre of Newark). Their theme was Street Child, based on the story of the orphan whose plight inspired Doctor Barnardo to set up his famous children’s refuge, and she's pointing at her section:

Some of the other entries:

Another school (which we looked at when considering which school to send JA to) had the theme of wishes. Compare and contrast:

I wish.. ".. that less fortunate children and adults have a happy and peaceful Christmas" and ".. for an xbox"!

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