On Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon of the last week of term, Cobalt class shared their, now traditional, pantomime performance with the school and community.

 

This year, the panto started in crisis! Mrs Davis was 'refusing to play the piano' and Mrs Larratt was 'too tired to write one' so two children found themselves in charge of not only creating a pantomime, but also finding a way to persuade Mrs Davis back to accompany the songs.

 

The pantomime therefore started with auditions for parts, finding a setting and choosing a story- Aladdin was eventually settled on.

 

The story of Aladdin then unfolded, with much hilarity and all the traditional pantomime jokes (oh no it didn't.....). An attempt was made to persuade Mrs Davis back to the piano by making all the songs, songs sung by the Muppets - but this didn't appear to be working!

 

Aladdin found himself stuck in the cave, before he was rescued by the genie. There were some lovely solo singing from a number of children, as well as some great 'grumpy men' asides from the back! Soon Aladdin and the princess were united and  there was an audience participation song, which even the RLT CEO joined in with at the afternoon performance.

 

It looked like Mrs Davis was not to be persuaded back, until one character realised the children's mistake.... they had been trying to persuade her back with Muppet songs, when her first love is Julie Andrews.... a promise to sing Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious soon had her back at the piano!

 

The children did an amazing job with great comic timing. Roll on next year!