Christmas at school and children who aren't celebrating

Hi mams I just want to ask how do you go about children at Jr infants who are totally new to the concept of Christmas and they don't celebrate it. So my child is in Jr infant and she has been saying to her peers that Santa isn't real and elf isn't real. The teaching is upset and sending me a long email on this. We have never spoken about Christmas at home but we have about cartoons and its not real. We have also taken our children to animation expo before on how cartoons are made. I feel so stressed about this whole situation. My child don't understand anything about religious celebrations or how elf/Santa is such a sacred Irish belief. I am mortified honestly.

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I'm from a different country and I believed in santa growing up, here kids believe in santa and elf and I just rolled with it. It's 'Xmas magic' as I call it and I'd just tell ur child that some want to believe in it and all surrounding it and some dont. Same as im rolling with idea of 1st Holy communion. Kids here study religion and I don't believe in god but I told my child ill support her no matter what she chose and im gonna get her the dress and do the whole thing as I don't want her to feel left out. She has friends who are doing it and she is only 8. I live in the country where certain things are done certain way and im not gonna strip those off cos of my believes etc. I want her to feel included and involved and "like her friends" to some extent as they all want to "fit in".