Category: Drama

Reception class are performing fairy stories in drama this term. This week they performed the Elves and the Shoemaker. They loved becoming cheeky little elves and acting out the story making sure the shoemaker showed surprise when he saw the elves making the shoes for him.

The topic for year one drama this half term is places. This week the children imagined they were on a magic carpet and flew to lots of different places, exploring each one before flying off on their carpets through the sky….

Years 1 and 2 performed their nativity play ‘A Bundle of Joy’ on Thursday, and what a bundle of joy it was. There was lovely singing and some wonderful acting from all the children in the cast. Poor grumble the donkey was not happy about a baby being born in his stable. Nor was he…

It is so nice to have an audience back for our nativity plays this year. On Thursday 2nd December Litle Lyndhurst performed their production of ‘The Innkeeper’s Breakfast’. The children performed magnificently, they sung the songs with enthusiasm and spoke all their lines clearly and loudly. The show was beautifully narrated by three donkeys and…

Year 5 are studying Mime this half term. Mime is the art of portraying a character, mood, idea, or narration by gestures and bodily movements. They have studied the work of Marcel Marceau and Charlie Chaplin as well as the more recent work of Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean. The children have been learning the…

Year 3 have been learning how to develop characters this half term in drama. They have used props, gestures and emotions to give their characters’ depth. This week they did a role on the wall exercise where they had to identify personality traits for their characters. They then improvised the characters meeting each other and…

A busy week for the Drama department. Little Lyndhurst have been busy rehearsing their parts in the Nativity and Years 4 and 6 have already started working together on their musical production of ‘Olivia’ for the spring term. Year six are already familiar with the play as they were due to perform it in March…

Years 1 & 2 have started rehearsing for their production of ‘A Bundle of Joy’. They are working very hard at learning all the songs and projecting their voices when they say their lines. They are very excited about performing the play in front of an audience.

The topic of Year 4 this half term is duologues. They are working with different partners each week on short scripts for two actors. They have performed scripts titled A mermaid in the chip shop and The frog prince at the garden centre. This week they worked on a script called My friend is sad….

Reception have been getting into the Halloween sprit in drama this week, when they explored the book ‘Room on the Broom’. They enjoyed being witches flying on their broomsticks, they then became the dragon and worked in groups to create their own swamp monsters, before going on to mix magic potions in their cauldrons. Finally,…