Assembly - Farmer Duck

Cast List:

Introducer Duck Farmer Sheep Hens

Narrator 1 Narrator 2 Narrator 3 Cow

Introducer	Good morning everybody and welcome to Class 3's assembly. We'd like to tell you a story about how important it is to try hard and work together. It goes like this…
Narrator 1	There was once a duck who had the bad luck to live with a lazy old farmer. The duck did the work. The farmer stayed all day in bed.
Narrator 2	The duck fetched the cow from the field. (Duck fetches the cow from the field)
Farmer	How goes the work?
Duck	Quack!
Narrator 3	The duck brought the sheep from the hill. (Duck fetches the sheep from the hill)
Farmer	How goes the work?
Duck	Quack!
Narrator 1	The duck put the hens in their house (Duck shoos the hens into the henhouse)
Farmer	How goes the work?
Duck	Quack!
Narrator 2	The farmer got fat through staying in bed and the poor duck got fed up with working all day.
Farmer	How goes the work?
Duck	Quack (Repeat while duck saws, digs, washes up, irons, picks apples and fetches eggs)
Narrator 3	The poor duck was sleepy and weepy and tired. (Duck sobs himself to sleep)
Narrator 1	The hens and the cow and the sheep got very upset. They loved the duck. So they held a meeting under the moon and they made a plan for the morning.
Cow, Sheep, Hens	Moo!, Baa!, Cluck!
Narrator 2	And that was the plan!
Introducer	Please join in with our song - Cauliflowers…. (Sing song)
Narrator 3	It was just before dawn and the farmyard was still.
Narrator 1	Through the back door and into the house crept the cow and the sheep and the hens. (Animals creep through the door)
Narrator 2	They stole down the hall (Animals tiptoe down the hall) They creaked up the stairs (Animals creak up the stairs)
Narrator 3	They squeezed under the bed of the farmer and wriggled about. (Animals group together and wriggle)
Narrator 1	The bed started to rock and the farmer woke up,
Narrator 2	And he called…
Farmer	How goes the work?
Narrator 2	And…
Animals	Moo!, Baa!, Cluck!
Narrator 3	They lifted his bed and he started to shout and they banged and they bounced the old farmer about..
Narrator 3 & 1	..And about..
All Narrators	…And about… right out of the bed…
Narrator 1	And he fled
Narrator 2	With the cow and the sheep and the hens mooing and baaing and clucking around him
Narrator 3	Down the lane… through the fields… over the hill
All cast	… and he never came back.
Narrator 1	The duck awoke and waddled wearily into the yard expecting to hear
Narrator 2	How goes the work?
Narrator 1	But nobody spoke! (pause)
Narrator 3	Then the cow and the sheep and the hens came back
Duck	(Puzzled) Quack?
Narrator 1	Asked the duck
Cow	Moo!
Narrator 2	Said the cow
Sheep	Baa!
Narrator 2	Said the sheep
Hens	Cluck!
Narrator 2	Said the hens
Narrator 3	Which told the duck the whole story.
Narrator 1	Then mooing and baaing and clucking they all set to work on
All	Their farm.
All (Sing with Mrs McCrossan)	All the animals had a farm…. On that farm they had a duck, a cow, some sheep, some hens.
Introducer	We hope you enjoyed our story. Thank you for listening. Please put your hands together and close your eyes, listen carefully and if you agree say `Amen' at the end:

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