New school musical deals with transitions from child’s first day in primary until they leave for secondary school.
Managing a class’ transition from primary to secondary school requires delicate handling and a well thought out process.
Guidance offered to teachers includes integrating transition activities into the PSHE (Personal, Social and Health Education) programme teaching pupils how to deal with change and to have a leaving ceremony on the last day in year six class as a clear signal to the pupils that they are moving on.
A new leavers’ musical called Do You Remember The First time? for year six classes in primary school, incorporates all of these activities in a single summer term project climaxing with the final performance at the end of term.
The musical by year six teacher and musician Andrew Oxspring of Edgy Productions is a celebration of the real “First time” experiences children go through during the course of their primary school lives. Reminding pupils of the transitional changes they have already gone through, teachers can show them that change is not as scary as it may at first seem and that it should be a positive step forward in their lives.
Do You Remember the First Time? reminds pupils about some of the many “first times” they have already experienced including: their first day at school, learning to tell the time, waiting outside the office after being sent to the Head, their first sports day and the first time they were allowed to join an after school club.
The whole thing culminates in the children’s first real goodbye, introducing the class to new feelings and new expectations as life gets more serious and more exciting, all captured in the final scene and song, “The End Of The Road.” Andrew Oxspring first wrote school musicals to help his own year six classes to reflect on their time at primary school and prepare for their scary move up to “Big School”.
He says, “I believe children benefit from a half term’s stress-free reflection on all that has been achieved across the board, during the children’s final year and throughout their time at primary school. It shows them how far they have already come and gets them ready for the next step.”
Do You Remember The First Time? comes with a full script including detailed stage directions and production tips, a CD of vocal and backing tracks, continuity music and sound effects and piano score with vocal line and guitar chords.
For more information please go to www.edgyproductions.com or call 0845 8333348
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