Adults and children of all ages are invited to join Foxcroft School students in celebrating the holidays Sunday, Dec. 2, with a spectacular Christmas Pageant, followed by a visit from Santa Claus, on the Middleburg, Va., campus of the School. The pageant, which begins at 2 p.m. in the Engelhard Activities Building, is a. tradition that was started by Charlotte Haxall Noland, the founder of Foxcroft, shortly after the School opened in 1914. Each December, Foxcroft's new students and Chorale present the nativity story as a gift to the community. Miss Noland's script includes several characters you won't find in the Bible and provides a musical and visual treat -- complete with live donkeys, bunnies and doves – for people of all ages. Foxcroft music teacher Karin Thorndike directs the performance, assisted by Fine Arts Department Chair Robyn Yovanovich and other faculty members. "It's a wonderful pageant," says Jane Lockhart, Assistant Dean of Students and Director of Activities at Foxcroft, who has seen the Foxcroft Pageant 51 times. "I first saw it when I was a student at Middleburg Elementary school while growing up in Middleburg. My children, who were born and raised on campus, saw the pageant when they were young and now they bring their children." Following the Pageant, Santa Claus will give all the children in the audience gifts that have been prepared by Foxcroft students. The pageant is the culmination of a weekend of community outreach and holiday activities on campus. Last, year, the girls made and decorated 120 mini Christmas trees for residents of Loudoun Hospital and Goodwin House. They also stuffed care baskets for needy families and boxes of supplies for Middleburg Humane, wrapped more than 250 gifts for local children, created a float for the Middleburg Christmas Parade, decorated a dozen trees on campus and went Christmas caroling on horseback. The highlight of the week-end, however, is the Pageant and all are invited! Foxcroft is located on Foxcroft Road (Route 626), four miles north of the center of Middleburg. For more information, call 540.687.5555.