- Key Stage 2
- Communication Then and Now
Communication Then and Now Class Assembly Script
Download a Class Assembly about Communication Through the Ages. Children act out the journey of communication from the crude drawings of the cavemen to the sophisticated technology we have today. Meet the printing press pioneers Johannes Gutenberg and William Caxton, as well as Alexander Graham Bell the developer of the telephone system. Be prepared to meet some other interesting characters along the way as we explore Egyptian and Roman writing and re-enact other key moments in history.
Key Stage: Key Stage 2 but can be adapted for Key Stage 1
Style: Informative and entertaining
Number of children: Suitable for class, key stage or whole school
Duration: 20-25 minutes but can be made longer or shorter by editing the script.
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Extract 1
Narrator
Welcome to our assembly as we explore communication through the ages. Let's travel back in time and meet some of the earliest communicators who used pictures to tell their stories.
Enter children dressed as cave people. They are carrying small sticks. They all sit down
Child 1
This look good place for fire.
Child 2
Yes. Ug, make fire. (Starts rubbing sticks together)
Child 3
(Starts making patterns on the ground with their stick)
Child 4
What do with stick?
Child 3
Make picture mammoth
Child 4
Not look like mammoth. Look like snakes.
Child 3
(Upset) Is mammoth! You ever see mammoth?
Child 4
No.
Child 3
How you know not look like mammoth, then?
All the children gather around to look at the picture
Child 5
We hunt mammoth?
Child 3
Yes. Look picture. This what we hunt.
Child 5
Look like hunt snakes.
All
(Except child 3) Yes. Picture look like snakes.
Narrator
Cavemen, or early humans, drew pictures to communicate and express themselves. They did not have a written language like we do today, so they used images to convey meaning.
Extract 2
Child 1
(Picks up phone) Ahoy!
Watson
Ahoy!
Child 1
(Giggles and starts talking in a loud, slow and deliberate way) How - are - you?
Watson
No need to shout!
Child 1
Sorry
Child 3
Are you all falling for this? Let me have a go? (Grabs phone) Right, let's see how clever you really are. Ahoy! Stupid word!
Watson
Ahoy!
Child 3
Erm. Okay. Wow. That really is coming out of this thing.
Bell
(Nods, looking very proud)
The children gather in a huddle chattering as Bell waves goodbye and exits.
The children walk off chattering in an amazed and animated fashion
Narrator
In days of old, when technology was young,
And human minds had only sprung,
A group of geniuses had a lofty plan,
To create a machine to help us understand.
Enter children dressed in white coats looking like scientists with clipboards miming conferring and comparing notes.
Narrator
The first computers were born from their brains,
A marvel of science, an incredible gain,
It took so much effort, so much toil,
To bring to life this incredible coil.
Scientist 1
Finally. We will join a long list of people who the world thought were crazy!
Scientist 2
Like who?
Scientist 1
Gutenberg, Caxton, Morse, Bell�..
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