CHILDREN across the borough have been beautifully depicting the nativity as they remind those caught up in the festive shopping frenzy the real story of Christmas.

Proud parents have been flocking to their child's school to watch them perform the play of Jesus's birth.

Bolton School's junior girls told The Shepherd's Story through song, dance and narration.

Adapted from Michael Morpugo’s book ‘On Angel Wings’, their version of the nativity was a story told by an old shepherd who was the very first visitor to the newborn baby Jesus.

A spokesman for the school said: "The performance ended with an uplifting rendition of ‘Unto Us A Child Is Born’. At the evening performance, the whole audience rose to their feet to join in the singing and hand-clapping during a final reprise of this final carol."

Bolton School’s nursery class and the Butterfly Room from the school collaborated on this year's nativity ­— Whoops-A-Daisy Angel. The story is told about an angel who is different from all the others. She is a little bit untidy, clumsy and forgetful, but she has a heart of gold. However, when it comes to the helping out on the night Jesus is born, she comes through, and gets it right. Aisha Jamil played the lead role.

Nursery Class Teacher Mrs Browning said: “The children's parents have done us proud by providing some wonderful costumes and we thank them all – not to mention some wonderful acting and singing contributions from the children!”

St Peter and St Paul's RC Primary School's early years foundation stage and Key Stage One team up to present the "The Inn-Spector’s", who find out the baby Jesus is born in a stable. Children were in fine voice to tell the story through song.

Among the youngest to perform the nativity were the children at the aptly named Little Angels Nursery.

The nursery in Crompton Way staged the production for the proud mums and dads.