Anyone in their 50s remember this from primary school??

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I’m 58 and I remember putting on a play in primary school all about the wooden horse of Troy.

It had songs - it might have just been a series of songs now I think of it but there could have been spoken parts too.

Im assuming it wasn’t just our school but nobody I’ve ever met seems to remember it.

Only asking because the songs have been known to lodge themselves in my brain as ear worms from time to time 😁

Same age & no don't remember I'm afraid but wanted to say love your username😃

Could have been a creative drama/ music teacher who put this together. Teachers had more flexibility and time then.

I'm.52 in a few weeks I don't remember putting on that play, but every summer the junior four ( year six) class put on a different play at the end of the summer term and all the other classes all had a different dong to sing the music teacher organised it
It was the same at Xmas each class would sing a different Xmas song and the Junior four class would do the nativity.

We used to do similar.

There was one that we listened to on the radio with songs and stories.

We did one about a 'Sun bird' that we put on in a small local theatre.

But there was another one, my year did, I think, Noah's Ark, my brother (2 years older) did Joseph and the technicolour dream coat.

We practiced with our class. Then we went to another school to practice with their same age class and then eventually we sang the entire thing in some big theatre, I think it might have been the town hall.

This all happened at the second of the three primaries I attended, the area had a lot of new housing and the school rapidly expanded which meant we had temporary classrooms and new teachers who were all in to modern teaching techniques.

OMG I have just found this:

Sunbird tell me the story
Of a day long ago,
When the sun left the heavens,
And the clouds turned to snow

To a girl in a village
Came a king robed in gold
They were happy together
So the story was told.

Then the king had to leave her
And he never returned,
But the heavens were shining
And the golden sun burned.

For the girl, left alone, now,
Waiting days were so long
She became lovely sunbird,
And keeps singing her song

Apparently from BBC Time and Tune. It is a very old fashioned message board with loads of BBC schools radio from the dark ages.

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I'm sorry I don't remember it.

Does anyone else remember a series of recordings called Man?
We used to listen to it every week and then do a project on it - it covered cavemen through to ancient Egypt. I was afraid of mummies for a decade because of it.

Singing Together, and then Time and Tune. You can get lots of them still online. I am still word perfect for many of these songs and I’m 57 😂

There were lots of plays like that available, not just from the BBC - we did one that was about some South American (Inca, maybe?) girl called Imoharu, who was a 'selfish glutton' and involved about 60 kids lined up with a pair of claves each.

If you search for school play Trojan Horse, you can find scripts that might be related.

But there was another one, my year did, I think, Noah's Ark, my brother (2 years older) did Joseph and the technicolour dream coat.

Noah, Noah, don’t do any more
Your boat’s a laughing stock
But Noah went on building his ark
And his hammer went knock knock knock

Said Mrs Noah
”ten thousand buns, what do we need them for?
Enough to feed an elephant”
”Enough for two 😉” said Noah.

Not that one but I remember doing ones from a book that were musicals.

One was called "Will Wanderers win" another "SirSpence and a Knight called Horace"

Well I'm in my 20s, not my 50s, but I bet you're talking about Great Big Groovy Horse. I was watching a bit of it on YouTube a couple of months ago. Paul Jones was in it.

OMG I am 7 years old again I had completely forgotten about this OP great thread.

Anyone remember Panji and the buffalo? It's an earworm to this day. There was also a play that a lot of local schools did about a medieval pilgrimage to Jerusalem. I've actually defeated google trying to find this one. The song went something like "Our pilgrimage we make, towards Jerusalem. And every step we take towards Jerusalem, will bring us new experiences, new things to see and do". I can't remember the rest of the words.

There was something called something like Humpty Dumpty - and I think the boys of Trinity Croydon did it on TV with Frank Sinatra

Was it ‘Great big, groovy horse’?
i’m 61 and remember this.
One of the songs was,

Paris, you’re a rat
You’re a mean cat.
You gone and stole our queen away
We’re gonna break your bones
We’re gonna smash you up
You’ll sure regret it till your dying day.

No don’t remember that one but used to do pageants in the summer

My sister did one with the lyrics "Theseus slay the minotaur/if you don't slay the minotaur then you're in trouble/ so you better slay the minotaur on the double" - super catchy and have never managed to track it down!

We did something similar called Moses and the Burning Bush. It was a musical number of the exodus from Egypt. It had great song and dance numbers in it and as we were a small school every child in the juniors (KS2) had a part.

I was only in what would now be year 3 and was the youngest child to have lines! It had a brilliant song about Ramases.

I'm in my 60s but remember a performance similar to this which we performed with loads of other local schools in Exeter Cathedral (we lived in Exeter, they weren't bussing in random kids) - I think to celebrate something to do with the cathedral. I remember

'Look, look at the night sky
How bright the heavens are.
We're singing the praise of the Plough and the Pleiades
Orion and the bright Dog Star.'

No idea where it came from though, but I do remember practicing the songs in school - no play part, just singing though. Wow, memories unlocked!

Yes minotaur

”flopping about like macorini cheese”

on this judgement day

we also did Hip Hip horatio about Nelson

underneath the chandeliers

56 soon. Don't remember this. Loved primary school.

Sorry OP, I'm 57 and don't remember that play. We too did Singing Together, which I loved, Joseph, Swingin' Sampson and Hip Hip Horatio. Good memories.

We did this one!
'Rameses the king had willed
Every Hebrew boy be killed
He'd destroy each baby boy
Drown them in the Nile-o

I was Mr Noah! ‘Forty days and nights, living under hatches. Careful with the lights. Feed the beasts in batches. And I can’t hear a word that’s trying to be said For the rain pitter patting on the roof above my head. The raindrops drumming overhead.’ I might not have all the words right.