And productions like A Hunger have become part of the staple diet of the school year under the headship of Mr Fowler, who retires at the end of this term. The Christmas season has seen other events for the musical school, with St George's as the only primary school to feature in Sunday's community carol concert at the Barbican. This week sees the infant nativity play and pantomime and the Christmas concert at St George's Church. The school maintains its links with the church and a fortnightly mass is taken in school by Father Pat Hartnett. Every other week, a celebration assembly is held in school, when two children are chosen for awards.
Parents do a lot of fundraising and have contributed to the school's stock of computers.
As well as organising the Christmas fair, the Friends of St George's School have just brought out a cookery book, which includes different families' favourite recipes and also recipes from the school's friends in Norway and Germany. Links have been built up with the towns of Stord and Gochsheim through the Comenius scheme and a display in the corridor is devoted to the two towns. When we visited, displays in the central hall were all devoted to maths, to tie in with the school's participation in National Number Day. The classroom walls are also covered in displays, and many of them currently involve glitter and cotton wool, with the cheery reception class defying any visitor not to feel Christmassy on entering their territory. Outside, the school has a playground at the front with a separate area for the nursery.