- Key Stage 1
- Travel and Transport
Travel and Transport Class Assembly Script
In this class assembly the children learn all about travel and transport through the ages. From the first crude attempts at making a wheel to the first successful flight by the Wright brothers, join other brilliant minds as the modern world unfolds before your eyes. Meet the ranchers as they mount their horses and go in search of sheep rustlers, and it’s ‘all aboard’ for the first steam-powered train. You will be dizzy with excitement as the world changes at a fast pace throughout our fun-packed assembly!
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
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Extract 1
Narrator
Welcome to our assembly about travel and transport. Let's look back to when it wasn't as easy to travel as it is today.
Enter some cave dwellers; one carries a very basic-looking wheel - but square!
Child 1
Come. Come. Look what um me made.
Child 2
What um that?
Child 1
That um wheel.
Child 3
What for?
Child 1
Make cart. Carry stuff.
Child 4
(Takes the wheel and examines it) How work? It square.
Child 1
No um matter.
Child 4
Does. Look. (Tries to get the wheel to roll) It not go round. Won't move on cart.
Child 1
Oh. (Looks sad).
Child 3
It good. We um make it round.
Child 1
(Looking happy) That sounds like a jolly good idea my friend. Let's do it!
Child 2
What he say? (They all shrug and look at Child 1)
Child 3
(To Child 1) What say?
Child 1
Make um round. (They all nod in understanding)
They all exit
Narrator
Although we have an idea that cave dwellers used boulders as an early form of wheel, it was a long time before it was invented and used for transport. The problem wasn't making it roll; it was finding a way to connect it to anything.
Extract 2
Enter James Watt and some friends
Friend 1
It's like a sauna in here.
Friend 2
What's that you have there Watt?
James
It's a model steam engine.
Friend 2
It's steamy alright.
Friend 3
What are you doing with it?
James
I was repairing it and then when I saw how much steam it was wasting, I decided to try and make it - er - less steamy.
Friend 1
Why?
James
It wastes fuel and isn't very powerful.
Friend 2
So?
James
Well, think about it. If I can make it not waste fuel and be more powerful, we could do amazing things with it.
Friend 3
Like what?
Watt and his friends freeze and a train driver and some passengers enter the stage. The train driver mimes shoveling coal in the boiler as the children are seated on the train.
Passenger 1
Did you see the driver? He is horribly dirty.
Passenger 2
I know. How horrid. I hope he doesn't try to touch us.
Passenger 3
Can you imagine? Yucky.
Passenger 4
It can't be an easy job. I wouldn't want to shovel coal all day.
Passenger 5
Exactly. And without him we wouldn't be able to travel like this.
Passenger 4
Would you rather take a carriage my dears?
Passenger 1
Alright. I was only saying.
Passenger 2
You still wouldn't want him to touch your fine clothes, would you?
Passenger 4
I think he's far too busy to touch our fine clothes.
Passenger 5
This is a wonderful invention, isn't it?
Passenger 2
What a clever man that James Watt is.
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