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The Snow Queen
ENGLISH
Speaking and listening
KS1
The performance gives students the opportunity to listen to the story, respond appropriately, and offer feedback in class on points in the story which interest them. They can also identify and respond to sound patterns in language, such as rhyme and word play, used by the characters in the songs during the performance.
KS2
The performance gives students the chance to speak clearly on stage in response to certain parts of the production (for example, when students are picked to help the Good Witch of the South). Students can also evaluate the overall effectiveness of the performance, including language variation and dialect forms of the many characters in the play.
LITERATURE
The production gives both KS1 and 2 students the opportunity to explore the works of Hans Christian Andersen and demonstrates how a story from a book can be adapted for the stage.
DRAMA
This show allows students to discuss the versatility of the actors (for example, when the actors use different body language and voices to portray a variety of characters). KS2 students can see how light, sound, costumes and set contribute to the overall performance.
PSHE & CITIZENSHIP
For both key stages 1 and 2 the production raises issues such as bullying, human emotion, friendship, kindness, love, right from wrong and teamwork.
HISTORY
The production enables children of all ages to research and explore classic stories and fairy tales from history and to also look at the period when the stories were written. They can also compare the stories to modern day children’s literature.
SCIENCE
The production allows all students to investigate further how snow and ice are formed.
KS1
Explore the story of The Snow Queen further, by the teacher telling the story and the children acting it out as the story is told.
Ask the children to walk around the room like different characters from the performance. When you say ‘freeze’ they stand still like statues. If they move then they are out of the game. Continue until there is a winner.
KS1 & 2
The whole class could undertake some role-play. The teacher could take on the role of The Snow Queen who tries to turn the children into her slaves. The children can then put their argument across as to why this is a bad idea and why it is not fair to take them away from their friends and family.
Make a poster advertising this performance of The Snow Queen. Tell the children to draw their favourite scene from the show.
Sing the song from the performance, ‘A Snowman for Winter/Christmas,’ as a group. The children could then make up their own song all about snow. KS2 could work in small groups on this activity and KS1 could work as a whole class with support from the teacher.
KS2
Ask children to form a circle and encourage them to pretend to be different characters from the play. In turn, get them to sit in the middle of the circle while the other students ask questions about their character. The other children have to guess who they are.
Students could investigate other stories from the past and present them to the rest of the class as a book review.
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