Sheena the donkey and schoolchildren in 1981
SHEENA the donkey put in an impeccable performance when she helped recreate the story of Palm Sunday.
It was only a short journey from St Barnabas First School in Jericho, Oxford, to the nearby St Barnabas Church in 1981.
Sheena, lent for the occasion by a school manager, didn’t put a hoof wrong after a little coaxing from Margaret Webb.
Pupils Kirsty McFarlane, seven, and Jay An Shah, eight, took turns to ride the donkey, which led a procession of children singing Hosanna and waving palms.
The pupils took part in a play at the church, then received palm crosses to mark the day Jesus arrived on a donkey in Jerusalem and the beginning of Holy Week, leading to the Crucifixion and the Resurrection.
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