Why the nativity play is a no no in many schools today...but not at one school in Oadby

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The start of December means that rehearsals are usually well under way for the school nativity play. Children across Leicestershire and Rutland have been practicing carols, sheep impressions or strutting their stuff across a stage for weeks now. Or have they? According to a survey by the parenting website Netmums suggests only around a third of primary schools still put on a traditional nativity play. Apparently one in eight schools have ditched the nativity altogether to perform a modern nativity with no religious references at all. BBC Radio Leicester's Bridget Blair has been to Launde Primary School in Oadby where all 560 pupils perform a real mixture of the old and the new