Our Easter Play

Our Easter Play is an easy-to-perform play for early learners, ideal for an assembly presentation, as the basis for a classroom project linking RE and PSHE or Drama at Foundation and KS1, or performed to an invited audience.

In the play, the story is recounted through narration, mime and singing to popular nursery rhyme tunes, ensuring that pupils of all abilities are enabled to participate fully in the performance. There are also opportunities for simple class-based activities to enhance pupils' learning experience, such as creating simple scenery friezes or collages, writing their own verses to the songs, or helping to make or collect simple items for the props and costumes.

The story is seen through the eyes of Jesus' disciple, Peter, and introduces the events of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Day, ending with the post-resurrection story of Jesus preparing breakfast for his friends on the shores of Lake Galilee

The play can be performed with groups of any size. Simple directions for setting the stage and plotting the performance are given, together with photocopy permission for all music notation and song lyrics.

Brian Ogden was for many years a teacher and OR advisor for the dioceses of Peterborough and Chelmsford. He is author of many books in the Barnabas range including News and Tell!, Year Round Assemblies, Starting Together, Nursery Rhyme Nativities, Beyond the Candle Flame and Sing a Song of Seasons. Brian is a regular speaker in schools, typically sharing his stories and his work with hundreds of children in the course of a year.

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