School plays: Ideas for end-of-term productions
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Discover some simple, creative and stress-free ideas for school plays
End-of-term productions can be extremely stressful and exhausting. In addition, valuable curriculum time can be wasted in learning new songs and lines that are quickly forgotten and bear no relation to the rest of the curriculum. The thing to do is to think flexibly and creatively. Try to build on topics and existing knowledge, and integrate the children’s repertoire of songs and music within a theme or topic that will provide the audience with an enjoyable show. Here are some tried and tested starting points from my experience as a music teacher that you can use as a springboard for your own plays. All of them involve the children in the design, and ancillary staff and parents can also get involved so that the finished production is a real team effort. As each class or group has responsibility for their own section, rehearsals can take place separately until the very last minute when you put the whole thing together. This avoids that awful experience of restless children sitting for hours in the hall waiting for their slot during endless, long rehearsals. They will be genuinely excited to see and hear how it comes together when you finally rehearse the complete production.
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Published 24 November 2008
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marian
on 17 October 2013love these ideas!!!!
i am in year 7 and when i was looking for an end of year play the baloon idea helped me massively. keep it up cuz this is great stuff!!
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teianna taylor
on 1 June 2012school show
for year six kids and funny
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ROMI
on 28 March 2012GREAT IDEAS
GREAT IDEAS! KEEP IT UP! I WILL BE TRYING THE MAGIC BALLOON ONE!
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emma
on 8 February 2012the four seasons
loved it it was brilliant the parents were amazed
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Dryden Spence
on 29 June 2011Review
This is a marvellous website with all the information I need. My son Thomas is now the lead part in Keep It Simple! Thanks
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amanda
on 28 February 2010Brilliant
great ideas thanks so mcuh
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Jackie Thompson
on 6 February 2010It's so simple, it could work!
What a welcome eye opener. Why not use the knowledge and music we already know. A great idea and very thought provoking!
Fia King
on 7 May 2015
Mrs
Fantastic advice, thank you!!