What school play did you do at the end of year 6?

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bobapapa@reddit

Cinderella. I was away on holiday when the roles were being cast so I didn't get an actual acting part though. :(

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Large-Blacksmith-736@reddit

We did Matilda the musical, unfortunately my awards for my performance as Bruce Boggtrotter got lost in the post

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IamEclipse@reddit

Did you have to eat the whole cake every showing?

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Large-Blacksmith-736@reddit

It was mostly brown tissue paper in a cake pan with angel delight so I'd eat some of the frosting and get it on my face then push the paper down so it looked like the cake was being eaten

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Foxtrot7888@reddit

We didn’t do plays at primary school except a nativity one.

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SilverFoxU@reddit

A Christmas carol, I was so shy as a child i didn’t want to do any stage acting. So my role was to sit in the corner and shake a box of nails to imitate Marleys chains. 😆

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Midsummer Night's Dream where our pedo teacher cast his preferred students in the lead roles regardless of acting talent. (I'm not just calling him a pedo, he was in fact found to have child porn on his school laptop - we all knew but nothing was done at the time).

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First_Discipline350@reddit

We did the School O’ Vision Song Contest. Did anyone else do it?

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jelly10001@reddit

I believe it was a musical version of The Odessey.

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raccoonsaff@reddit

We did Aladdin, as a musical.

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Jess-FB@reddit

We did Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in my school when I was in Year 6. Willy Wonka was played by one of our teachers who was a bit quirky, and the play was a mixture of scenes from the book and both movies. I had a fun time helping to make props for it, including the golden tickets (I even got a certificate for it), and because we used some of the random scenes from the book that weren't really important to the main story, everyone got to play a part (I took part in a scene where some children were breaking their piggy banks to go and buy chocolate). It was a fun way to end the school year before we had to move onto secondary school.

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Ben-D-Beast@reddit

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat

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SCATOL92@reddit

Thesius and the minotaur

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Princes_Slayer@reddit

I left in 1988 (it was called year 4 rather than 6 back then). Our school started doing plays the year after I left. Prior to then, the departing year put on a variety performance and the two classes designed it themselves. Dancing, sketches, singing etc. we performed it twice, once in the afternoon for the other years and once in the evening for parents

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therillard@reddit

Bugsy Malone, with no cream. I played Fizzy the caretaker. I got too scared to sing Tomorrow on my own so the teachers convinced everyone else to sing it with me, so that’s a nice memory!

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SidewaysSky@reddit

We did The Tempest

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Trick_Maintenance115@reddit

It wasn't at the end of the year but ours was rats (a pied piper thing)

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Professional-Day6965@reddit

Just some nonsense the teacher wrote. It was all over the shop.

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North-Point7309@reddit

We did the Tempest.

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Badlydressedgirl@reddit

Grease. A very heavily edited version of Grease. Since I was also the only one who could sing, I stood side of stage and sang most of Sandy and Rizzo’s songs. I was Jan and the Teen Angel.

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highrouleur@reddit

Macbeth in primary? Christ

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Viking-Bastard-XIV@reddit

What year is year six? I left at 16 at year 5.

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Ryuga-WagatekiWo@reddit

Six years after you started school

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highrouleur@reddit

It's actually 7. For us oldies Reception was 1st year infants. We did 3 years infants, 4 years junior, then 5 years senior. Each school starting as a first year

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UnacceptableUse@reddit

Were you held back?

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Viking-Bastard-XIV@reddit

No. I went to primary school 1,2,3,4. Middle school 1,2,3,4. Secondary School 2,3,4,5. I left in 1992.

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highrouleur@reddit

I left in 93. In my area we finished the 3rd year seniors and came back in year 10 (91-92), then year 11 for our GCSE's

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Awkward_Chain_7839@reddit

It changed in the mid 90’s. I started secondary as form 1 and left as year 13 (upper 6).

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Loose_Acanthaceae201@reddit

4th/last year juniors * Reception = Reception = EYFS, age 4+ * Year 1 = middle infants = KS1 * Year 2 = top infants = KS1 * Year 3 = first year juniors = KS2, age 7+ * Year 4 = * Year 6 = last year of juniors = KS2 * Year 7 = first year of secondary = KS3, age 11+ * Year 8 = 2nd year = KS3 * Year 9 = 3rd year = KS3 * Year 10 = 4th year = KS4, GCSE course * Year 11 = 5th year = KS4, GCSE exams * Year 12 = L6 = KS5, 16+ * Year 13 = U6 = KS5, turning 18

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CheeryBottom@reddit

Last year of primary school

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movienerd7042@reddit

Year 6 is age 10/11

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Oilfreeeggs@reddit

Wizard of oz , I was munchkin number 3

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ClassroomDowntown664@reddit

left primary in 14 and we just had a leavers assembly whare we sang songs and told memorys of our time at the school

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amberthezombie@reddit

"I'm a year 6 get me out of here".... I was the third star 🤦🏻‍♀️😂

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21stcentury_idiot@reddit

We did a weird version of Robin Hood at the end of primary 7

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The-Ginger-Lily@reddit

The jungle book, I played Bagheera, biggest role I've ever had.

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laurcifers@reddit

It was either Oliver (musical version) or Alice In Wonderland. I was Mrs Bumble (and a flower seller) in the former and Queen of Hearts in the latter. Having padding added to my costume, as an already slightly overweight child, did nothing for my street cred, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. I finally got a leading role in my end of year play when I did musical theatre in college. In year 2 I was the bossy christmas fairy though. Which was nice. I was supposed to be Mary, but the OG fairy couldn't project. Probably one of the small handful of times in my life where my loudness and overzealousness has come into handy.

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BlackberryNice1270@reddit

This is a looooong time ago, but we did an under-the-sea show where we did songs & things related to, you've guessed it, the sea. We made two sharks that had bamboo and wire frames, topped with paper-mache, and the two smallest kids (I was one) operated them from inside and we came out for the finale, to much hilarity. It had a hinge-type contraption that meant I could make the mouth open and close.

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justADDbricks@reddit

West Side Story I was Officer Krupke

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Simbooptendo@reddit

Hoodwinked - A Robin Hood musical. I wasn't in it but painted some of the backdrop. Though I got banned halfway through for drawing Homer Simpson on a cubbyhole in permanent marker when I was supposed to be working. Anyway it was cheesy but had some banger songs which live in my head to this day.

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braziliandarkness@reddit

Worzel Gummidge. I played the girl in it, Sue I think? All I remember from it is a song about tea and cake. I wanted to be the Sergeant as he had all the funny lines but I guess I wasnt funny enough 😆

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user1939373728292928@reddit

Joesph and the amazing technicolour dreamcoat

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UpcastDragon19@reddit

The Wizard of Oz. I was Mrs Gulch. You probably dont know who that is.

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coleslawontoast@reddit

We didn't do a play, although we did do some concert with a load of other schools in an arena, think was for great ormond street

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hellaparadoxial9614@reddit

We did Aladdin. Year before me did Oliver. Every year prior to that was some kind of play made specifically for primary schools to perform like Time Lord

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bopeepsheep@reddit

4th year/Upper Juniors play was in Dec, not at the end of the year. We did a musical of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Our Willy Wonka was later in a Bisto advert. Ah, fame.

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BaBaFiCo@reddit

For leavers? We did some sort of future school reunion thing compete with a rendition of Time of my Life from Dirty Dancing. We didn't do a formal play in any year at juniors other than the annual Nativity.

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Hamsternoir@reddit

It was the second year of middle school for us so not an important year. Don't think we did anything in year 8 when we did leave either.

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ComprehensiveFee8404@reddit

We Will Rock You. I wanted a main role. I got put at the back of the chorus.

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-TheHumorousOne-@reddit

Harry Potter and the philosophers stone, played Uncle Vernon during the cave scene. Got quite a laugh after saying "Shut Up Fatty or I'll shoot!". We had a fat kid play Hagrid too, he was a proper chilled out lad though who was laughing too.

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heyitsed2@reddit

I remember being part of the backstage crew for a school production of Joseph and his technicolored dream coat, could have been a great opportunity to learn a bit about sound engineering I guess but the teacher doing that side of things wasn't interested in letting us get involved. Did mean I got to sit on the pile of gym mats during the whole school assembly performance instead of cramped up cross legged on t'floor though.

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buy_me_a_pint@reddit

We did no play at the end of year 6 We did have loads of year 6 inter form cricket, rounders etc against the other classes in the same year group, sometimes we had houses , split into two teams for each house We had a regular assembly , every year the whole school got together, 4 years ago, to hand out book tokens and awards for various things. there were the inter house year quiz , always a fierce competition

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VioletsSoul@reddit

Romeo and Juliet but as a musical

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taureanpeach@reddit

We didn’t do a proper play at the end of the year, we did one where we acted out loads of tv shows (including showing adverts with the projector!) - I was Davina McCall introducing Big Brother 2010 lol. We did a few plays through the year at school every year, the Christmas play, an end of year play and one called ‘a sharing’ which I think was supposed to teach a lesson.

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Cyanopicacooki@reddit

Under Milk Wood. One of our teachers (Mr Wilkinson iirc) was in love (and rightly so) with the BBC recording of the play, Richard Burton the narrator, and persuaded our rather stuffy headmaster he'd tone down the references to Polly Garter and a few other things. He didn't. He was good teacher.

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frankieramps@reddit

Oliver Twist

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frankieramps@reddit

Oliver

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butterscotchwhip@reddit

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. *I close my eyes, drew back the curtain, ahh ahh ahhhhhh* I think I can still recite all the colours in order lol

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History_86@reddit

Carousel

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Single-Aardvark9330@reddit

We did Bugsy Malone When I was y5 it was wind in the willows Couple years before me did Romeo and Juliet, but that was the only time they did shakespeare whilst I was there

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Vaxtez@reddit

I did bugsy malone in Year 6 too. I got pied in the face in it XD

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dospc@reddit

Alice in Wonderland... I was the Mad Hatter.

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EscapeTheSecondAttac@reddit

Joseph. Eleven year old me play a prostitute at catholic school

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Strangest-Smell@reddit

Hold on to your hats cause this is my villain origin story. We did a nativity in year 4 and a play in year 6. If you had a speaking role in the nativity you couldn’t have one in year 6. So year 4 me chose to sit out the nativity and do the play. When I got to year 6 the music teacher turned round and said ‘we’re not doing a play this year we’re doing a concert’. I mean you make 8 year olds make a decision that’ll take 2 years to pan out and then just snatch it away? Curse you Mrs Swinn.

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EfficientSomewhere17@reddit

We did Oliver Twist. I remember being a narrator and forgetting my lines viscerally

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lkap28@reddit

Alice in Wonderland with some High School Musical numbers thrown in for good measure (yes it was 2008)

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Mediocre_Sprinkles@reddit

Pinafore pirates! A mix between pirates of Penzance and HMS pinafore. Singing, dancing all that jazz. Can't really remember anything of the plot. I was islander number 3 who shouted "daisy's coming!" First line of the play.

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ChunkyHoneyBear@reddit

The Nativity... same as every other year...

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suspicious-donut88@reddit

A play written by our teacher Mr McKinnon in 1983called Evolution where we all dressed up as atoms and molecules and apes and people from history and an alien called Zog (he was the colour of a frog). We sang all about the history of the earth from the big bang to the space race and had a marvellous time. The play won a competition for best school production in Wales and came second nationwide. Mr McKinnon's follow-up play, Automation, won the same competition the following year. The bloke was a legend.

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Hick-ford@reddit

We did the Hobbit (I hadn't watched the films or read the books) I got to be the dwarf (Nori, Dori) something like that and I remembered our trek and we had sing something in the lines of "of caverns old.. ect" I don't know if that is a legitimate song but our Teacher was a big Lord of the Rings buff, we didn't even read it in school, no project, just a play. Also I think we did one in year 5 to do with a soap that made your arms and legs fall off if you used it.

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Smart_Comedian_4123@reddit

Wasn’t a thing in my school. That would involve teachers actually making an effort

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gr33nday4ever@reddit

midsummer nights dream

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VictorAnichebend@reddit

We didn’t do a play. We done a little showcase of our history topic, which was ‘Britain since the 1930s’, basically a whistle stop tour of (at the time) 70 years of British history. I played Bobby Charlton as part of the bit about the 1966 World Cup. I’m a teacher now and we just do a regular leaver’s assembly with the year 6s. Get them to share their favourite memories, pictures of them as babies on a PowerPoint, sing the leaver’s song, bosh.

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ManlykN@reddit (OP)

That’s pretty neat! And leavers seem quite simple or these days. The amount of stress it was to rehearse lines, and do practice for about 2 months was so much as an 10-11 year old.

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Loose_Acanthaceae201@reddit

Y6 do their SATs in early May and there isn't a right lot of new material for them to cover in the last couple of months. Putting on a play is an opportunity to tick a lot of music/art/drama/tech boxes that might have taken a back seat earlier in the year.

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whoisarren@reddit

We did the Wizard of Oz. I wanted to be the lion so bad, but got Glinda instead. Still devastated to this day

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UrMomDotCom666@reddit

alice in wonderland

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Laescha@reddit

We did a few over the years, most memorable was Alice in Wonderland though I think I was younger than year 6. ORF WITH THEIR HEADS!!

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C0nnectionTerminat3d@reddit

We didn’t do one, we only had our leavers service which included us talking about our favourite moments in primary school and what we wanted to be when we were older, we also sang two songs (one was the typical leavers song, i think the second one was a take that song). Our class also did cheerleading competitions every year so the cheerleaders put on a performance too.

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Loose_Acanthaceae201@reddit

My children's school did a play and a musical in alternate years (and when it was a musical they had Y3-5 bumping up the chorus). So I've enjoyed *Oliver!*, *The Lion King*, a bunch of pandemic chaos, and a comic play in the style of an Agatha Christie murder mystery.

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UnacceptableUse@reddit

We did a sketch show type thing made of in jokes from the year or to showcase talents that various students had

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Bipolar03@reddit

If we did one, I wasn't there. I was in Florida

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iamworsethanyou@reddit

The Phantom Tollbooth. I was the percussionist by virtue of not wanting to act or sing and being able to count. No extra points were awarded for making the nearest audience members jump with my big booming bass drum.

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Billy_Daftcunt@reddit

We reenacted when Lisa shot Phil, from Eastenders. It was a big deal at the time.

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BG3restart@reddit

My son did Hamlet.

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Electric_Moogaloo@reddit

A weird chopped-together version of Bugsy Malone with all the songs cut out for some reason. But I did get to spray everyone with silly string from our ‘splurge guns’.

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No_Potato_4341@reddit

I don't remember doing one

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GaryJM@reddit

I don't think we ever performed any plays when I was at school.

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CheeryBottom@reddit

We did Christmas nativities but not a leavers assembly at the end of year 6. This was late 80s

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Max_Level_Nerd@reddit

we did cats and i hated every second of it.

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DinosaursLayEggs@reddit

We did a musical called The Button Box. Can’t really remember much about it other than I was crow lol

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movienerd7042@reddit

Bugsy Malone

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LilacRose32@reddit

My school did a play every other year; so performed by years 5 and 6. Ours was something weird about trolls…

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Ravnak@reddit

We did two plays a year... I'm unsure when we even fit any education in. There was a themed play each year (I remember being in a Tutankhamun one, a Victorian themed one, and doing one about Jonah and the whale). And a christmas themed one. And the year 6s did a "leavers" variety type thing each year too. It was a busy schedule.

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