Virgin Media Christmas Stars 2019

Enter your school Christmas play by Tuesday 19 November and Stephen Mulhern could be coming to your school to be the narrator & your school could win £5,000!

Virgin Media’s magical Christmas Stars competition is back for its second year, giving UK primary schools the incredible opportunity to have their Christmas play televised to the nation – narrated in person by TV’s Stephen Mulhern!

Virgin Media will film a special recording of the winning school’s festive play and make it available, via On-Demand, to its four million Virgin TV customers in the days leading up to Christmas.

Stephen Mulhern will join the winning school’s cast to help tell the story for a one-off performance. The winning school will unwrap a £5,000 cash prize too!

Plus, thanks to our friends at Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit West End show, School of Rock The Musical, a class from the winning school will be invited to the Gillian Lynne Theatre in London for an electric, rip-roaring performance masterclass from the cast.

The children will also be treated to tickets to watch the blockbuster show and see the talented cast in action. Travel is included, and accommodation will be available if needed. The masterclass is open to a class of 28 children and seven chaperones.

To keep the Christmas spirit going, School of Rock The Musical will generously give the winning school 10 ukuleles so they can keep strumming first-class performances well into 2020.

And as it’s the season of goodwill, there are plenty of prizes on offer for the runner up school and 22 regional finalists. The runner up school will win £1,000 plus 15 ukuleles, while 22 regional finalists will win £100 and 2 ukuleles each.

Last year, Pennine Way Primary School in Carlisle scooped the top prize with their Christmas play, ‘Robin Hood Saves Santa’, which was professionally filmed and made available to millions of Virgin TV customers over the festive period. 

Think your red-nosed reindeers, choir of angels and frosty snowmen have what it takes?

Here’s what we’re asking of your little stars and their invaluable teachers!

Your school’s show can be a traditional nativity or a brand new tale with dancing elves and reindeers – or anything in between! You can also enter one of the fantastic festive shows available from Out of the Ark Music.

The production should have a script and be between 30 and 60 minutes long. The winning performance will be filmed at the winning school between Monday 2 December and Friday 13 December 2019. 

Virgin Media is asking primary schools to write no more than 150 words about why your school’s Christmas play should be made available to four million Virgin TV customers this Christmas and to provide a short synopsis of the play. Please also upload an image or photograph promoting your Christmas play. It could be a photo of the cast at first rehearsal, or perhaps a poster designed to promote the production.

You will need to enter via the official online entry form, please see the link below. The competition closes at 11.59pm on Tuesday 19th November 2019.

If you have any questions, please contact christmas@ichild.co.uk (please note, this email is for queries, but all entries must go via the official online entry form below).

Enter here

Good luck!