Call the Midwife. Nativity play for KS2. Speaking parts for a whole class and Performance License

A Nativity Play for KS2 (age 8-11). It is common for The Foundation Stage or KS1 (youngest children) to perform the Nativity Story at Christmas, but when we as a lower KS2 class performed our own version of the story to our school it went down like a house on fire! It turned out to be a more sophisticated play than those in Year 5 and 6 performed that year and so I feel I can say with confidence that this play could be performed from Year 3 to Year 6 depending upon your cohort of children. Especially if you have mixed age classes or a combined year group performance.
Our audiences of children and parents found the play to be funny and we received compliments about this and also that it was also true to the Biblical Christmas story whilst being told with a new twist. This really mattered to some of our parents and they loved the show! In fact, the head teacher at our school said that he had never received so many compliments for a Christmas performance!
We are not a Christian school but it is a Christian play and it was received well across the board with no issues from any of the multi-faith families involved.
I wrote the script myself as we could not find anything appropriate and we were fed up with performing the few plays which we had circulated year on year. In our school, Year 4 performed this play. We were a year group of 60 children and 56 of them wanted speaking parts! That is why there are 56 speaking parts in one of the versions I have included here. I have also included a script for the standard UK class size of 30.
I have included advice in how to create more or fewer parts as required and this can be easily achieved. We also added songs between each scene, they were well known and quick to learn and fitted in with each part of the story we were telling. (eg: ‘Go tell it on the mountain’.) We ended up cutting some songs as it made the performance too long, so you really don’t need songs if you’re not musically inclined. Alternatively, this is an opportunity to really personalise the play and add your class’s favourite Christmas tunes, dances or whatever else you choose.

Buying these scripts gives you unlimited performance rights in your school.