Whistle as you walk away - Alison Chaplin

PERFORMANCE PLAYS is a series a photocopiable books that shows teachers, through clearly structured and progressive lesson plans, how to prepare, rehearse, direct and perform short plays with their class or year group. Each book contains one fully photocopiable playscript, usually just one Act (length 45 minutes max.) Cast sizes very between 18 and 40 and the range includes comedies, Soap operas and dramas, fairy stories etc covering a variety of drama forms. Some are based on short stories, poems or full-length plays. All have a moral message and all have been developed by the writer with children in a workshop context. The range is ability graded into four levels:5-7,7-9,8-10,9-11 year olds. WHISTLE AS YOU WALK AWAY dramatises the lives and times of Victorian children in the cotton mills. This informative and moving play helps children to explore some of the difficulties faced by young people in the 19th century and understand how their lives gradually improved. *structured step-by-step teaching plans to build teacher confidence;*appropriate, high-quality performance material *ideal for assembly, celebration, or end-of-term productions *relevant to children's experience *literacy-learning potential *suggestions for music, dance, props, make-up etc.-as simple or complicated as teachers choose *original plays evolved from working with children.