DR WHO BY YEARS 5 AND 6
Year 5 and 6 students staged their very own series of Doctor Who in March. Each class came up with a long list of possibilities for themes for the production. The question needing to be asked waswhere would we start from a list of over 100 possible storylines?
Students were asked to work in groups and choose their favourite title and improvise potential endings or beginnings for their class's own episode. It soon became clear that some storylines would need a Hollywood special effects department or a stage similar to The Royal Opera House,but some characters began to shine and offer possibilities for development. After 2 or 3 lessons playing with our ideas and getting lost in the enormous world ‘Tardis travel' offered, each class voted on their favourite idea.
One of our 5 episodes would take us back to Victorian times where Doctor Who would hi-jack Charles Dickens' work and save Nancy from the evil hands of Bill Sykes. We then went forward in time to Fairley House 100 years in the future. In another episode the Tardis would malfunction and the Doctor found himself stuck in the TV, eventually coming face to face with David Tennant on the actual set of Dr Who.
Another class went on a school trip where the Master disguised himself as a teacher and planned to destroy the lives of children in his “care” by genetically modifying the trees around him and causing the children to be frozen. The final episode was set in the trenches of World War One on the night the English and German soldiers laid down their guns to play football and sing Christmas carols.
The stage performance on March 11th was brilliant. Nerves, excitement and a touch of panic gripped the air – all vital ingredients for an electric performance -but the joy and achievement of each class as they came off stage and made way for the next episode was obvious too. 5 episodes of time travel packed into one hour with song and dance and superb special effects, all produced by the pupils. The audience loved every episode, and were correctly very proud of what the children had produced.
Well done Year 5 and 6. The future - wherever we choose to go, with no Tardis to help us - is bright!
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