I went to a standard state lower school (years reception to 4) in a large midlands new town in the 1990s, but one of its quirks was that its headteacher was clearly from another era of countryside living and wanted to continue it.
The school had a huge maypole and a "country dancing" club after school once a week where the girls learned to maypole dance indoors in the Hall and the boys learned Morris dances. It was a bit antiquated for the time but we used to perform in the town centre on weekends so it was still interesting to people even if not in vogue.
As well as this, the headteacher insisted that ever year the year 4s (the oldest kids) would perform the same play for parents and locals in the playground at the "May Day festival" and by the time I was a year 4 it had become quite a thing to be involved. I have googled and googled but I cannot find any details of this play!
The narrator was a jester (I got to play this part and had a red and yellow costume and a staff with bells on). I vividly remember standing in the middle of the playground announcing things while everyone stood in a large circle around. There was a may queen and king and some sort of business with a doctor (I think)?
I can't remember much more than this but I remember that we sang what I now think were traditional country farming songs, one of which included a line along the lines of "our lord and our lady are here as you see, they've come to the May-ing as proud as can be".
Does anyone remember doing anything remotely similar?