Vicar apologises after telling sobbing children ‘Santa isn’t real’ He went a step further and explained the childrens’ parents were eating biscuits left out for Santa.
“You’re all year six, now let’s be real, Santa isn’t real,” Rev Chamberlain told the children during the lesson, according to GB News.
A spokesperson for the Diocese of Portsmouth said: “We understand that the vicar of St Faith’s, Lee-on-the-Solent, the Rev Paul Chamberlain, was leading an RE lesson for 10 and 11 year olds at Lee-on-the-Solent Junior School.
A vicar in Hampshire has apologised to upset children and their angry parents after telling year six pupils that Santa Claus wasn’t real.
Parents complained of a “ruined Christmas” after Reverend Dr Paul Chamberlain’s visit to Lee-on-the-Solent Junior School this week to speak to a religious education class about the birth of Jesus, according to reports.
