Christmas 2010

As has become the tradition, Christmas was celebrated at Golden Bead with great gusto on Dec 15 before the holiday break - there was a Christmas play put up by the elementary Golden Bead children and carol singing, followed by a pot luck dinner for all.
The play began with the creation of the Universe starting with the Big Bang and the coming of life on earth. The children showed how A.D, B.C became an important landmark in the history timeline with events before the birth of Christ denoted as B.C and the events after Christ denoted as A.D. The children unraveled the timeline and explained the sequencing of each era. Also the time line of life was put up and highlighted with the eras.

 The later part of the show traced the origin of man to the Mesopotamian Civilization starting from Abraham, the 14 generations from Abraham to David, the 14 generations from David to Josepho, Moses & the exile in Babylon and 14 generations from the exile to the Birth of Christ the Messiah ! The children sang many songs including The animals went in two by two, Father Abraham had many sons, Joseph and the amazing Technicolor Dream coat, When Israel was in Egypt's land, Joshua fought the battle of Jericho, By the rivers of Babylon and Joy to the World. After the play, Manya thanked the faculty involved in helping stage the play and Raya invited the pre-primary children on stage to join the carol singing. The children waited expectantly for their secret gift from Santa beforeheading off to dig in to the scrumptious spread that followed. A collection box was passed around to collect donations to gift to the domestic help that help keep the school environment neat and tidy.

The happy occasion was made possible thanks to the cooperation between the parent body and the Golden Bead staff and we hope the tradition will survive the coming years.