TEACHERS across Inverclyde have overcome many obstacles and learned a few technical tricks to stage their Christmas pantos, shows and nativities during this challenging time. Schools have been sending messages of goodwill using digital technology and have managed to reach their audience of proud parents and families eager to see some Christmas cheer. Here, we look back to a time when things were simpler, and when audiences packed school halls to see kids perform under the glow of stage lights. In a 2014 Lady Alice Primary School Nativity production, a midwife looks on as three camels and a donkey, guided by a star, arrive in Bethlehem.

LOOKING back to 2005, this pic shows some of the cast of Aileymill Primary School's Christmas nativity play held in the school hall.

TEACHERS and pupils of St Francis Primary School in Port Glasgow staged a Christmas concert and nativity play in a morning of entertainment for parents. The show provided lots of material for a picture spread back in 2013.

MEANWHILE up-county in Kilmacolm, kids of the village's primary school posed up for this warm nativity picture before going on stage in 2008.

ALONG with their nativity play, kids of St Laurence's Primary School in Greenock put on a rip-roaring show in 2009 featuring Susan Boyle, Rab C Nesbit, Rod Stewart and Lulu.