Years 3 & 4 Production - 28 - 30 March
'Hello I am Beatrice and I am going to tell you about a production that Years Three and Four (I am in Year Four) have been performing. It is called Edith’s Wartime Scrap Book and I am the main character Edith Coleman. The play is about an old lady called Edith who is moving house and finds a scrap book about her time as a child during the war. She is reminded of many happy memories but also sad ones as well. We have worked very hard on the play and I think that the costumes were fabulous!
I had a lot of words to learn and I think I learnt them really well. My friends Jack and Lily are removal men and they were on stage for the whole performances as well. I really enjoyed doing the play and I think the pair of glasses I had to wear were splendid. I have to start off most of the scenes and if I don’t then I’m usually the next line. I got really nervous before the performances because there were lots of people watching me and it would be terrible if I forgot my lines!
We had to perform the play three times and we had fun doing the performance each time. The first time we had to perform the play to the whole school at two o’ clock (My sister watched this one), the next time we had to perform it to some adults at two o’ clock (My grandma and grandad watched this time) and the last time we performed it to some more adults at seven o’ clock (This is the one my mum and dad watched). Before the performance on Monday a photographer came and took pictures of us!
In an I.C.T lesson we got to make the programmes for the play and it was really fun. They were all brilliant. Our D.T teacher made the scenery for us and it looked really good. After the performances were over all the teachers who had helped out in the production got a bunch of flowers each, for the hard work they put in helping us do the production! I thoroughly enjoyed performing this wonderful production and I think it is the best I have ever done!'
Beatrice E - Year 4
'Whilst moving out of the house in which she has lived for 80 years, Edith Coleman discovers an old scrapbook from her childhood. The removal people ask Edith about the book and as she begins to tell the story of her memories, the play begins.
Firstly, we are in the front room but at the beginning of the Second World War with the Coleman family. As war progresses, the children are evacuated and Edith’s older brother, Sidney, goes to fight in the war.
My first character was a Home Guard and he was a funny part for me to play as I stood the wrong way round when standing to attention and marched onto the stage with the backing track of “Dad’s Army”. The other Home Guards (Roshan, Georgia, Eleanor and Natasha) and I had to sing the “We are the Home Guard” song.
Later, I played a Captain in charge of Sidney as we were fighting at Arnhem. We were all scared and I told the men to write their letters home. I also sang a sad song called “Will you be there?” which talked about whether we would see our loved one’s again.
With the end of the war and people having VE celebrations I arrived home as soldier. But I had some sad news for the Coleman family as I thought that Sidney had been lost from his retreating unit when the bridge blew up at Arnhem. Thankfully, though, Sidney suddenly appeared at the end of the play and everyone gasped in delight.'
Samuel C - Year 4
'Year 3 and 4 put on a production called Edith’s Wartime Scrapbook. We performed it on three different dates from the 28th-30th March. I really enjoyed doing the play it was fun.
The main character was an old woman in her early nineties. There were also two removal people, one of them found Edith’s old scrapbook from the war. When she had the scrapbook she started to tell a story about the war. Then everyone started to act out the past.
I was a father and a member of the Home Guard. When I was in the Home Guard I was being chased around the stage by my angry wife who had a frying pan!!! When I was the father I was in a very sad evacuee scene where my child left on a train.
There was a main family which was focused on a lot. The people in the family were Granny, Mr Coleman, Mrs. Coleman, Sidney, Young Edith and Fred. Sidney went to fight in the war. When the war was over Sidney didn’t come off the train. There were lots of street parties to celebrate the end of the war. The Coleman family were devastated but they still went to the party on their street. At the party Sidney came and everyone had a big celebration at the end of the war.
We all really enjoyed doing the play and we are all eager to do another one.'
Roshan S - Year 4