Description
Grace Darling Assembly for Key Stage I assembly or class play celebrating Grace Darling’s great bravery provides the opportunity to explore related themes, such as the wildlife on the Farne Islands (focusing in this case on seabirds) – with scope for art work; and the study of lighthouses – the suggested model-making offering much Design Technology fun!
Cast of 30 (easily adapted up or down)
Duration: Around 10 minutes
Sample Text:
Narrator: From the age of ten, Grace and her family lived on Longstone Island which is one of the Farne Islands just off the Northumbrian coast.
Child 6: Lots of people go there today to see the puffins!
Child 7: And (turning) Terns!
Narrator: Pardon?
Child 8: There are Arctic Terns
Child 9: Common Terns
Child 10: (Taking a bite of sandwich) Sandwich Terns
Narrator: (Interrupting, laughing) Don’t let the seagulls see them!
Child 11: (Tutting, scornfully) There are lots of gulls and other birds like
Child 12: Kittiwakes
Child 13: And Razorbills
Child 14: And Guillemots
Child 15: And Oystercatchers
Child 16: And not forgetting
(Whole cast ‘duck’)
Whole Cast: (Shouting together) Ducks!
Narrator: Whoa! That’s a whole lot of sea birds! In fact, there are over one hundred thousand there, I believe! Definitely a good place for
Child 17 & 18: (Dressed as ‘Twitchers’) Twitchers!
(Whole cast raise pretend binoculars to their faces and, as a ‘wave’, scan the audience)
Narrator: I believe, he means, bird watchers! And you know, interesting as all this is, we have rather strayed from this morning’s subject.
Grace: (Indignantly) Me! Grace Darling.
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