Poppy's Script

In writing we have been writing scripts for plays.  Here is Poppy's script she wrote at home with her younger brother and Dad.  What a wonderful and funny play it is.  We hope you will enjoy as much as we did.

You may want to ask a few of your friends to read and act out the play.

What is your favourite part in the play and why?

A Meadowbank School Christmas Carol

Characters: 

Miss Scrooge

Ghost

Student 1 - Timmy Tyne

Student 2 - Sally King

Student 3 - Clementine

Miss Lovely

Scene one: Classroom

Students: Merry Christmas Miss Scrooge!

Miss Scrooge: Ha! UN-merry Christmas to you, little squirts! It's the last day of the school year today. For most children. But you lot will be coming back in on Monday! Christmas Eve with me and... LOTS OF SUMS!

Students: ohhh noooooo!

MS: Oh Yes, Actually! Christmas is a terrible time of the year. Children need sums and homework. Lots of it. These miserable summer holidays, your homework is 1000 points of Mathletics.

Sally King: I could do that in one day!

MS: That's good, Sally. Because you'll have to do that EVERY day of the holidays. Along with two book reports every week and a 3000-word essay on the snail. It's the most boring animal I can think of, but it's still more interesting than you lot.

Students: Ohhhh nooooooo!

Timmy: Sallyyyyy. Keep quiet.

Sally: I know the scientific name for the snail. Scroogeus Boringus!

MS: right! That's a 6000-word essay now!and 2000 Mathletics points a day! 

Students: Ohhhh nooooooo!

Clementine: Sallyyyyy! 

Timmy: We told you!

MS: Ha! I think I might almost enjoy this Christmas! Now. Out of here all of you!

Scene Two: midnight at Miss Scrooge's house. Miss Scrooge is lying in bed, stage left. Ghost appears, stage left. When he talks, Miss Scrooge sits up.

MS: [snores]

Ghost: Wake up, Miss Scrooge.

MS: Hey! What! Who? What's going on!?

Ghost: I am the ghost of Christmas and I have something important to show you!

MS: What? Look, you Stinky Spook. Get out of here before I call Ghostbusters.

Ghost: Miss Scrooge, you have lost your way!

MS: You're the one who's lost, Sheety!

Ghost: I'm not wearing a sheet. I'm a real Ghost. I will show you Christmas past, present and future.

MS: Yeah? And I'll show you the front door. Now get out.

Ghost: you have forgotten wha t Christmas is all about. first, I will take you back in time to when you were a little girl. And you will see how much fun school was.

MS: Yeah right, Ghosty. The only thing good about school was telling on people. And the best thing about school now is punishing them. Ha!

[Ghost waves arms. Noises from off stage, 'whoooo, whoooo, whoooo']

Miss Lovely appears, stage right.

Ghost: Do you remember your teacher, Miss Lovely?

MS: Oh no! Miss Jinglepants I used to call her. She was always telling me off and being nice to all the others.

Miss Lovely: what a wonderful day we've had today, class. Now little Lola Scrooge, you've been talking a lot today in class again. You've got a sweet voice but sometimes you do need to listen more instead, interrupt a little less, and then everyone can have an even better time.

MS: see! Telling me off again!

Ghost: Yes, but very nicely. And it sounds like you deserved it.

MS: Hmmmph. You might have a point. I would have put her, I mean me, in the corner.

Miss Lovely: now have a lovely Christmas all of you. I've made you all wonderful colourful baubles for your Christmas trees. 

MS: Ha! Jinglepants!

[Ghost waves arms, Miss Lovely disappears from stage, noises of 'whoooo, whoooo, whooo]

Ghost: What do you think now?

MS: Well, Bedsheets, you know what I like about you?

Ghost: what?

MS: Nothing. But I admit, maybe Jinglepants wasn't as bad as I remember.

Ghost: Good. I will now take you to Christmas present.

MS:  You got me a Christmas present? A new kettle?

Ghost: no, not that kind of Christmas present.

MS: A sportscar?

Ghost: No, not like that.

MS: A fluffy unicorn?

Ghost. No! Hush! I mean the present as in now. The Christmas of this year.

MS: Well why didn't you say so?

Ghost: You are so annoying. Anyway, whoooooo, whooooo

[Ghost waves arms, Timmy, Sally and Clementine all appear, hunched over notebooks on the ground. Writing furiously. noises of 'whoooo, whoooo, whooo]

Clementine: This is so boring. I wish we could go play.

Timmy: I agree.

Sally: At least Scrooge isn't here to yell at us.

Timmy and Clementine: Yeah.

Voice calls from offstage: Children! It's time to go to Santa's Grotto and see the real Rudolf and the Christmas celebrations and collect your surprise Christmas candy packs!

Clementine: but Mum, we can't.

Timmy and Sally: we've got too much homework to do.

Children together: This is awful [all put their heads in their hands and start sobbing].

MS: Oh those poor children. Who would do that to them?

Ghost: Err... You.

MS: Yes! Hurrah!

Ghost: But you've made them miserable. At Christmas.

MS: That's what those annoying little squirts need.

Ghost: You're ruining it for them and their families.

MS: No I'm not, don't be silly.

Children still sobbing.

Clementine: Miss Scrooge is so mean.

Timmy: She's ruining our Christmas.

Voice from offstage: This is so unfair for all our families. Miss Scrooge is ruining it for all of us.

Miss Scrooge: Ummmm, errrr... It wasn't me. Maybe it was my sister.

Ghost: That's ridiculous. Your sister is a plumber. Of course it was you.

MS: Oh no. Am I really that bad?

Ghost: Obviously. Why else would I be here?

MS: Oh no. [looks thoughtful]

[Ghost waves arms, Timmy, Sally and Clementine all walk off. noises of 'whoooo, whoooo, whooo]

Ghost: Finally, let me take you to Christmas future.

MS: Oh no. Do we have to? That's really not necessary.

Ghost: It is. You need to see what will happen if you carry on being mean.

MS: No, I don't want to see this.

[Ghost waves arms, Timmy, Sally and Clementine all walk on wearing hard hats and carrying clipboards. noises of 'whoooo, whoooo, whooo]

Timmy: Now that we're grown-ups, we can finally bulldoze this school. No one comes to it anymore. 

Clementine: yes, everyone left once they were in that old Miss Scrooge's class. 

Sally: They told their friends, who all told their friends and pretty soon the whole school was empty.

Timmy: So now we're going to turn it into a car park and a museum of lampposts, snails and other very boring things. It's the perfect end to the worst time of our lives.

[they walk off]

MS: Noooooo! It can't be true.

Ghost: It isn't true. Yet. You have the power to change it.

MS: No, I don't. I can't.

Ghost: You can. You need to be nice to your class. You can save the school.

MS: But how can I be nice? I'm giving them sums and homework. It's what they need.

Ghost: you're giving them too much. You need to soften up a bit. Let em have fun. Have fun with them.

MS: Ok, ok, I'll try. But if I can't do it, I might need your help.

Ghost: Oh yes, I'll be watching...

[Ghost waves arms, whoooo, whoooo, steps off stage and Miss Scrooge falls back asleep]

Scene Three: the classroom. Students Sally, Timmy and Clementine

Sally: Miss Scrooge is late. Let's wreck the place.

Timmy: No way, we'll get even more homework, and you've already earned us a tonne.

Clementine: Yeah. No one likes Miss Scrooge, but we have to be good or we'll get into a tonne of trouble.

Sally: Why do we have to obey her rules? They don't make sense and they're so mean.

Timmy: Well one of her rules is no smart Alec comments, miss smart Alec.

Clementine: Hey cut it out, I can see her coming.

Sally: hey. I think she's smiling.

Timmy and Clementine: Smiling?

Timmy: uh oh, what does that mean?

Clementine: I don't know, but it can't be good.

MS walks in, smiling and wearing a nice colourful scarf.

MS: Good morning, children!

Sally: Huh? 

MS: and Merry Christmas!

Timmy: what's going on?

Clementine: She didn't call us squirts!

MS: I've brought Christmas treats for everyone.

Sally: Hey?

MS: And Christmas crackers.

Timmy: miss Scrooge, you're being nice. What's that about?

MS: It's Christmas, Timmy Tyne, and it's time for fun and laughter.

Clementine: What about all that homework you've given us?

MS: Forget about the homework. It's time for fun!

Students: wahoo!

MS: And instead of that report on snails, we're going to watch... a documentary about snails.

Students: Oh.

MS: It's called Turbo!

Students: Wahoo!

MS: Merry Christmas everyone!!