YEAR 5 PLAY

Year 5 performed a wonderfully comic take on the life of 17th Century France, with their production of The Three Musketeers. The audience were delighted by scenes depicting D’Artagnan and the Musketeers in the middle of a struggle for power between the King and the villainous Cardinal Richelieu, which was not to be taken in any way as historically accurate! It was fabulous to see our Year 5 pupils putting into action all of the drama skills they have learned to date. A huge thank you must go to Mr Cartwright and Mrs Carlyle-Clarke who directed the Year 5 pupils so wonderfully.

Being a largely creative and dramatic year group it was decided by the children that it would be better to write their own play than perform a published piece…as a result a hilarious combination of different fairy tales was constructed and performed. Through the development of the script, plot planning, staging, costume and scenery design the children touched on many key theatre skills alongside their acting skills.

Kate Blomfield