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Our Easter Play
Brian Ogden

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Drama and Nativity Plays

Foundation

Our Easter Play

An easy-to-perform nursery rhyme play for Easter

Brian Ogden

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.

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.

Nursery Rhyme Nativities Nursery Rhyme Nativities
Three easy-to-perform plays for pre-school and early years learning
Brian Ogden

Uses popular nursery tunes to tell the story of Christmas. Plays written to meet the needs of Foundation/Reception, Year One and pre-school groups.

If you've enjoyed this, you also enjoy Sing a Song of Seasons by the same author.

Easy Ways to Christmas Plays Easy Ways to Christmas Plays
Three complete plays with photocopy permission
Vicki Howie

Contains three simple yet effective nativity plays suitable for use with children aged 3-7: ‘Come to my party!’, ‘The star who couldn’t twinkle’ and ‘Shine your lights!’ Now you can put on that nativity play!

Sing a Song of Seasons Sing a Song of Seasons (PDF Download)
Five easy-to-perform plays for pre-school and early years learning
Brian Ogden

Where can you find ready-made, easy-to-perform plays for very young children with a minimum of fuss? Why, in Brian Ogden’s Sing a Song of Seasons, of course! There are plenty of occasions throughout the year when children’s leaders everywhere will be looking to involve their groups in simple, dramatized presentations. This new resource is brimming with ideas for props, costumes and manageable preparation, and provides text for adult narration and stage directions for simple actions by the children. With its songs based on popular nursery rhymes, this book is ideal for creating cheerful and lively plays, involving even the youngest children in learning through drama.

KS1

Easy Ways to Christmas Plays Easy Ways to Christmas Plays
Three complete plays with photocopy permission
Vicki Howie

Contains three simple yet effective nativity plays suitable for use with children aged 3-7: ‘Come to my party!’, ‘The star who couldn’t twinkle’ and ‘Shine your lights!’ Now you can put on that nativity play!

KS2

Getting Ready for Christmas Getting Ready for Christmas
Creative ideas for assemblies, drama and cross-curricular activities
Meg Harper

This book contains a wealth of ideas for cross-curricular teaching designed to give a host of fresh ideas for the last few weeks of the Christmas term. The material includes a mix of practical, literary and academic tasks, all linked to the National Curriculum.


More information on The Gospels UnpluggedThe Gospels Unplugged
52 poems and stories for creative writing, RE, drama and collective worship
Lucy Moore

Drawn from all four Gospels, the pieces are ‘unplugged’ in that they get to the heart of the biblical text, reflecting the life of Jesus in action-who he is, what he said and what he did.

See also The Lord's Prayer Unplugged by Lucy Moore