YOUNGSTERS across Teignbridge ended their school term with a bang celebrating the festive season.

Schools, which are part of the Ivy Education Trust, staged various end of term productions. 

The season began with Cockwood School children performing their Christmas show, ‘The Magical Jigsaw Puzzle’ at the Langstone Cliff Hotel to a fully packed out audience. 

The children told the traditional story of the nativity as the jigsaw comes to life and is pieced together.

Children in KS1 at Starcross Primary School enjoyed performing their nativity ‘Dinky Donkeys’ with some beautiful singing, dancing and such enthusiasm throughout. 

And KS2 children performed a Christmas Carol Concert at St Pauls Church, singing a selection of carols and some well-chosen readings that told the Nativity story.

Over at Kenn C of E Primary School, the pupils took advantage of the village church by performing a traditional nativity in the afternoon, followed by their Carol Concert and Christingle in the evening. Everyone who attended relished in the ambience of the church and sang along to the songs that the children performed.

Children at Kenton Primary School also staged a Christmas nativity and their carol concert, but this time at Hope Church, which is the school’s temporary home after their school flooded several months ago.

Teignmouth Community School performed a three-day run of ‘Into The Woods’, a musical centred around a married couple who have been cursed by a witch and have to obtain items to break the curse, all of which can be found in traditional fairy tales such as Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and Jack and the beanstalk.

At Newton Abbot College, students across all year groups joined together to perform their Winter Concert, mix of Christmassy songs and others that they had been rehearsing all term. 

A spokesman said: ‘It was a huge display of talent from all students, both singing and playing instruments in a very smooth and polished concert.’