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School Faces Backlash After Removing All Christmas References From Panto to Make Children Feel “Safe and Valued”

by Will Jones
20 November 2024 9:00 AM

A school faces backlash from parents after it said it removed all Christmas references from a pantomime performance for pupils and parents to make them feel “safe and valued”. The Telegraph has the story.

Mandy Ovenden, the Head Teacher of Wherwell Primary School in Andover in Hampshire, caused anger among parents earlier this month when she prohibited any reference of the festive season from a Jack and The Beanstalk show to accommodate all religions of those attending.

Parents at the school branded the decision “crazy”. A spokesman for the school, which is rated outstanding by Ofsted, has defended its decision by saying it wanted to ensure that all pupils and their families felt both “safe” and “valued”.

Wherwell Primary School said: “When we chose to invite the travelling pantomime to Wherwell, our request was a practical step to ensure all children at the school would be able to attend and enjoy the show.

“Our aim, as always, is to foster inclusivity in our school community, and be a place where children and their families feel safe, welcomed and valued.”

In a letter dated November 6th, Mrs Ovendon said she was “very excited” to invite parents to the production of Jack and the Beanstalk.

“The performance will take place in the school hall and children should wear school uniform, as usual please,” she wrote. “We have requested that the show contain no reference to Christmas.”

Parents said the decision “shouldn’t be allowed” and argued that they can’t “eradicate” any reference to the festive season so “a few people will not be offended”, it was reported.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: ChristianityChristmasDiversityPantomimePolitical correctnessReligionSchoolWoke Gobbledegook

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nickbowes
nickbowes
3 years ago

Won`t be going abroad again unless they drop all testing and vaccine passport mandates.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  nickbowes

It seems you could save 10 times more people by weighing people and taking their height (and thus screening for heart disease risk).

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  TheyLiveAndWeLockdown

And denying the fatties permission to travel, because not only are they covvisuperspreaders, they also overflow into your seat and squash you flat.

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Tests are evil – Australia Is Revolting

 Alex Belfield – annouces “car boot sale” in Trafalgar Square on Saturday 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGaVZB7VnH0

Stand in South Hill Park Bracknell every Sunday from 10am meet fellow anti lockdown freedom lovers, keep yourself sane, make new friends and have a laugh.
(also Wednesdays from 2pm)

Join our Stand in the Park – Bracknell – Telegram Group
http://t.me/astandintheparkbracknell

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Lockdown Sceptic

I jolly well hope Australia does revolt!

Reminds me of that quip “the peasants are revolting”…

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Is that what they call “anti-social distancing”? 🙂

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misslawbore
misslawbore
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Squashing fat haters sounds like a good idea, also easy

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chris c
chris c
3 years ago
Reply to  TheyLiveAndWeLockdown

A friend got ripped on Twitter for “fat shaming” when he posted a picture of dietitians at a conference.

I pointed out that actually he was DIET shaming. These people don’t notice that obesity, diabetes and other metabolic problems only became “epidemics” after high carb low fat diets were invented and even when they themselves become afflicted they don’t see the connection because diet like covidianism is a religion.

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NonCompliant
NonCompliant
3 years ago
Reply to  nickbowes

I renewed my passport in 2020 for one reason. A one way ticket out of this nightmare if the opportunity ever arises.

It amazes me how 2 weeks in the sun is all it needs to get the masses to comply with this nonsense!

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I am Spartacas
I am Spartacas
3 years ago
Reply to  NonCompliant

I renewed my passport in 2020 for one reason. A one way ticket out of this nightmare if the opportunity ever arises.

lol Me too.

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago
Reply to  NonCompliant

A one way ticket to where though?

With tyrannies past, there was always somewhere to flee. But now?

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Julian
Julian
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

If I had unlimited resources I would get the right to reside in the USA and go to live in a red state, probably South Dakota which was the only one that didn’t have a lockdown of any kind AFAIK. I would also look at somewhere Mexico, and Sweden. I’ve no idea what’s required for Mexico. The US is hard unless you’re rich. Sweden at present are I think quite severely restricting UK citizens, not sure how that applies if your aim is to settle there and not sure how easy it is to settle there, you probably need a job or to be independently wealthy. All those places have drawbacks – the US federal govt is run by the evil, mad Democrats, Mexico is probably a bit more unstable, lawless and corrupt than one would like, Sweden are pretty pro-vaxx and maybe subject to bullying by the EU. Because there are no guarantees, more than one option is ideal. The other approach would be go to a very poor country that cannot afford lockdowns or corona technocracy, but obviously there are other drawbacks, or somewhere like Belarus or Russia but they are pretty authoritarian in other ways.

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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  Julian

Russia would likely prove a much better bet than the UK, which is in the fast lane on the road to full blown totalitarianism. We have a government that is headed by certifiable psychopaths.

Last edited 3 years ago by Rowan
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KidFury
KidFury
3 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

Having been to Russia a few times, I’m not sure I agree.

Unfortunately this is still probably the only place I want to live and raise a family

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misslawbore
misslawbore
3 years ago
Reply to  Julian

You’ve nailed it. The best exit currently is probably death. But most of our ilk are just hanging on for longer in case the global insanity suddenly all ends. It gets harder to imagine such a miracle as time goes on though. Love Eeyore

Last edited 3 years ago by misslawbore
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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

To somewhere else, that might just be better. There are no guarantees, of course.

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NonCompliant
NonCompliant
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Please read posts more carefully….

“if the opportunity ever arises”

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me too
me too
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Robert Heinlein wrote:
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  me too

No place is so crowded as the inside of a spaceship.

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me too
me too
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Change your physical appearance and the colour of your skin. Forget your language; learn to speak in Swahili or some other unknown dialect. Buy simple clothes without a logo. Learn to have only one good meal a day. Be human.

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KidFury
KidFury
3 years ago
Reply to  NonCompliant

Come on dude, there’s a lot of broken families with people on deaths door. I know at least a few people who have had to watch parents funerals on Zoom, my brother included

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  nickbowes

Me neither.

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NonCompliant
NonCompliant
3 years ago

Anyone able to post a picture of the wrapper/packaging of the PCR swabs?

I’ve seen videos regards them using ethelyne oxide which is a known carcinogen. Usually it will be listed as ‘eo’ somewhere on the packaging.

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amanuensis
amanuensis
3 years ago

This is an emergency (apparently) and these people have been found guilty of profiteering. The response should be an immediate permanent ban on them pour encourager les autres, not being told ‘to stop doing it’ (which will have the opposite effect).

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iane
iane
3 years ago
Reply to  amanuensis

No; jail-time surely?!

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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago

I’m wondering how long it will be before similar stories are running over here. Given that all of our governments has matched yours for ineptitude that creates opportunities for shady business.

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iane
iane
3 years ago
Reply to  Gregoryno6

Oz/ Nz/France/etc?

Last edited 3 years ago by iane
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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago
Reply to  iane

Oz. AKA Lockdownunder.

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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago

The answer is no tests, not tests from “approved” providers.

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Julian
Julian
3 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

Exactly. I know DS likes to keep us informed, which is useful, but this story seems a bit like the one about the quarantine hotels having crappy good or whatever – I don’t much care about any of that, because their mere existence is an offence and argument starts and ends with that.

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gone_loopy
gone_loopy
3 years ago

So this story is mainly about companies being removed because they no longer exist

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago

On two other topics:
Covid in Florida, has anyone a link or a sane summary of what is happening there? Casedemic with some deaths explained by high elderly pop, or more than that? Seems to have peaked, but what’s the story?
Secondly, Berenson pointing out a story on breakthroughs and deaths days after 3rd Pfizer in Israel. Too early to be sure, but is this the usual post jab death surge – or did someone let the “within 14 days” figures out by accident? Or ADE beginning? Or is the third jab just producing worse side effects in a cumulative manner, some of which kill the weak and old?

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smithey
smithey
3 years ago

Back in the office now. I am the only one who has not had the Covid ‘jab’. You would not believe the amount of pressure I am under from colleagues to have it. The woman I sit near is acting like I am going to cause her to drop down dead at any moment. I have pointed out that the vaccine does not stop you catching or spreading the virus and also asked if the vaccine is so fantastic and works then what have they got to worry about if they come into contact with somebody with Covid. Also pointed out that even unvaxed if they do catch Covid they have a more than 99% chance of surviving but they are all having none of it. It is simply impossible to reason with them.

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Julian
Julian
3 years ago
Reply to  smithey

I know of one other person in my office of 70+ that is unjabbed, there may be others but judging by what I have heard most of them are jabbed. No-one has ever asked me – I only know about the jabbed because they like to talk about it, but then our office is without restrictions so those who do go in are probably not the worried ones, who will most likely be at home for a long time to come or forever.

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milesahead
milesahead
3 years ago
Reply to  smithey

My sympathies – you can’t reason with members of a cult.

You are doing the right thing, as even the cult members will come to realise when they encounter a wild virus in the winter.

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NonCompliant
NonCompliant
3 years ago
Reply to  smithey

Stay strong and just ignore them. I am expecting to go through this myself in the near future.

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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago
Reply to  smithey

As Julian said, I know who’s been jabbed at work because they love to talk about it.
It reminds me of the situation late last year. I had a government job for six months and the talk after the US election was very anti-Trump. As evidence of the steal began to emerge they just stopped talking about Trump altogether. On the current trajectory I figure the ‘ahead-of-the-curve’ vaxxed up staff will be much quieter by Christmas.

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Sforzesca
Sforzesca
3 years ago
Reply to  Gregoryno6

Yes. I used to work in a Hospital as a volunteer. Caught “covid” whatever it may be, whilst there. Now, because I refuse the poison jab, I am prevented from returning – because I am now a ” bio hazard, to vulnerable people. LOL.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  smithey

IF you think you caught COVID, just state you’re naturally immunised and it’s 8 times better than the jab PLUS it’s sterilising immunity unlike the jab.

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steve_z
steve_z
3 years ago
Reply to  TheyLiveAndWeLockdown

and was free! apart from a couple of lemsips

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago
Reply to  TheyLiveAndWeLockdown

They don’t believe that natural immunity is better than the jabs, because they’ve been putting out propaganda aka utter lies on this since summer last year, and perfectly intelligent people as well as the mob have believed them.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  Sandra Barwick

The jab is wrong in so many ways
it causes clotting
it activates wrong part of immune system
the mRNA jab can become part of DNA.
The side effects are worse than the disease for most.
To then believe that a single viral protein in the wrong place is BETTER protection is such magical thinking that you must regard the whole of modern-science as frankly nonsense.

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caipirinha17
caipirinha17
3 years ago
Reply to  TheyLiveAndWeLockdown

Add in, it’s generally thought that damage to the body and long Covid are probably linked to the spike protein, and the jabs cause your own body to make….the spike protein! What could go wrong?

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me too
me too
3 years ago
Reply to  smithey

To those who do believe no explanation is necessary.
To those who do not believe no explanation is possible.

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me too
me too
3 years ago

When people are in panic they swallow anything. Any Government has a heavy duty: punish or destroy all that, on those epochs, commit robbery.

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago

The Fascist government started the racket. Now they’re surprised there’s a racket.
Are we surprised that the Fascists are that stupid?

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Pavlov Bellwether
Pavlov Bellwether
3 years ago

Dozens of snake oil salesmen removed from major rogue government misinformation site. FIGHT. BACK. BETTER. Useful information, links and resources: https://www.LCAHub.org/

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bfbf334
bfbf334
3 years ago

“Tested” for what……the thing that despite FOI requests all around the world has never been proven to exist.

Last edited 3 years ago by bfbf334
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RTSC
RTSC
3 years ago

So the Government’s been scamming the population with this pointless tests. Who’d a thunk it?

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SAGE LIARS
SAGE LIARS
3 years ago

The test is utter bollocks regardless of how much it costs or who is carrying it out!!

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Zoomer@14
Zoomer@14
3 years ago

PCR tests DO NOT WORK. The inventor said a PCR test can find ‘anything’ if spun for long enough. Anyone who has made money from PCR tests is a criminal.

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brachiopod
brachiopod
3 years ago

Can we have our money back now too please. Either from the companies or the Government ministers who lead us to believe they were reliable and honest while washing their hand of any responsibility in the HMG ‘small print’.

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