For literacy this week we have been looking at play scripts. We watched part of the West End play ‘Matilda the Musical’ that appeared on The Royal Variety Performance. The part of the play focussed on Matilda, Bruce and the rest of the cast singing about what they want to do when they grow up. It ends with a solo from Matilda singing a song called ‘Naughty’. At the end of the lesson, we learned the song and joined Matilda in singing it.
The next lesson, we thought about the job of a director of a play and a play write and came up with the success criteria for a play script. We decided they need instructions for:
What to say and how to say it.
Body language
Facial expressions
Actions
Setting
Props
We identified these features in the script for Matilda.
On Wednesday, we worked together to write part of a play script for Matilda if it was not a musical. We included lots of detail in our stage directions and began to think about what the characters would say.
Here is what we came up with together:
On Thursday, the children used the netbooks to access this shared writing and edit and improve it.
