Chris Reynolds wrote this report on the Moorooduc PS production - Jesse's Journey.
What a delight it was to be sitting waiting for the biennial show to begin.
Even better when eventually the lights went up and the large audience of friends, parents and grandparents learned what the production was to be about - a journey and how to make new friends. The journey indeed turned out to be a tale like Dorothy's in the Land of Oz from one encounter to another with adventures found and lessons learned at every point in the story.
When the Duck, the Cow and the Kangaroo each time became friends through discovering how they could each do something for the others (the Cow dramatically ‘ate’ the poison ivy hedge to let the others through on their journey to school, for example)which emphasised how vital kindness to others can be.
Wrangling the young players - from Prep to Seniors - backstage, and with some little ones needing more direct management as they trod the boards for the first time e.g. in a crouched scuttle a teacher sorts out an imminent tangle or another time older students shepherd or guide tiny tots from one side of the stage to the other,
Principal, Mr Andrew Wisken, finished the event with the appropriate “thank you's” to the staff centrally involved, to parents and others for their support in many ways and congratulations to the Moorooduc students for many of whom this had been their first performance experience.
As Rotary guests, Judy Seager and I agreed that the delight was very much ours. Schools are just such wonderful places for building community an fostering disciplined and formative creativity in the young.
