F-4 Community News

Seussical Kids

The St Augustine’s College Kyabram Foundation to Year 4 Community sang and danced their way through last term as a part of their Inquiry studies in preparation to perform their first-ever production. In previous years, the Foundation-4 students performed dance concerts biannually but we wanted students to have an opportunity to experience all elements of the performing arts on stage from a young age. With the support and dedication of the F-4 Community teachers and Learning Support Officers, St Augustine’s talented Foundation to Year 4 students performed their very first Junior Production.

In the last week of Term 3, students unlocked the imaginations of Kyabram citizens when they brought the Cats in the Hat, Horton the Elephant, Gertrude McFuzz, Mayzie LaBird, the Whos in Whoville and other Seuss favourites to life with their production of Seussical™ KIDS. 

Seussical™ KIDS began with a young boy named JoJo, who conjured up the Cat in the Hat with his powerful imagination and was whisked to the Jungle of Nool for a fantastical adventure.  There JoJo learned of the plight of the tiny citizens of Whoville, who lived on a planet the size of a speck of dust.  Their sole protector was Horton the Elephant, who was the only one with large and sensitive enough ears to hear them bipping and beeping and playing their oompahs.  The small world was threatened by Sour Kangaroo and the Wickersham Brothers, who in disbelief that a world could be so small, tried to steal the dust speck so they could cast it into a vat of Beezle-Nut oil.  During all of this drama, Horton did not notice that he had an admirer, Gertrude McFuzz.  She blamed his indifference on her one-feather short tail and endeavoured to find a way to change her looks.  Meanwhile, Horton’s friend, Mayzie LaBird, was bored of perching on her nest and convinced the watchful elephant to sit on her egg so she could take a vacation.  The Cat followed all of these storylines and finally cast the boy into his own as the irresponsible son of Mr. and Mrs. Mayor of Whoville, JoJo, who ultimately saved his whole tiny world with one big, imaginative “think.” 

It was great to see the students grow in their confidence throughout last term. They were so excited to go on a real stage and perform for their loved ones. They had such a great time and have not been able to stop singing it since.

Thanks to all the parents, caregivers and the greater community who attended the performances.