Human Body Assembly
Best suited for year 6
You will need:
White shirts/ science lab coats
Clipboards
Trousers and shirt with Headmaster’s photo attached
6 children dressed in red (red blood cells)
6 children dressed in white (white blood cells)
6 children dressed in black (disease)
Shower cap for ‘Brain’. Maybe a large badge of some sort saying ‘Brain’
Some sort of sash/badge saying lungs for lungs
Some sort of sash/badge saying muscle for muscle
Balloons
Digi blue camera (not vital)
Projector (not vital)
Music – Eye of the Tiger
Mr Blobby
Phantom of the Opera
Glockenspiels and drum
6J Assembly
Professor Ivor Nidea: Good morning children, my name is Professor Ivor Nidea. I am
the Managing Director of the Department of Body Studies,
situated in the grounds of Polegate School. This morning my
team will show you some interesting experiments that we have
conducted whilst exploring the human body.
Here is my good friend, Doctor T. Pott, head of the Skeletal
Exploration team. Good morning!
Doctor T. Pott:
Good morning Professor Nidea, good morning children. As
Professor Ivor Nidea explained, I am the head of Skeletal
exploration at the Department of Body Studies and today we
are going to teach you a little about the Skeletal system.
Before we start I would like to introduce you to my assistants,
Mr E. Tale and Miss T. Fying.
(Tale and Fying enter)
Mr E. Tale:
The bones in our body join to form a skeleton. Our skeleton is
very important as it protects our organs, supports us and
enables us to move.
Miss T.Fying:
We thought that it would be interesting to see what would
happen to our bodies if we removed our skeleton. So yesterday,
Mr Hale agreed to allow us to remove his skeleton. Oh, here he
comes now….
(Assistant enters dragging a pile of clothes with a photo of Mr. Hale stapled to the
shirt as if holding Mr Hale’s hand) Mr Blobby music
E.Tale:
Where is Mr Hale?
Assistant:
He’s right here; after we removed his skeleton, he couldn’t
move on his own!
T.Fying:
Yes, he looks like a very floppy! A jelly man!
T.Pott:
We have around 206 bones in our body, and as you can see, we
certainly need them to keep us upright! Right chaps, we’d
better fix this quickly, I think there might be trouble if we don’t
sort this soon.
(Flustered, they all exit, leaving Professor Nidea)
Prof. Nidea:
Thank you to Mr Hale for being such a good sport, and to our
Skeletal Exploration team. I would like to introduce you to my
friend Professor R.G. Bargy.
Prof. R.G. Bargy:
Hello there Professor. Now children, I am very excited to tell
you that you all will be involved in our next, pioneering
experiment. This experiment has never been attempted in the
history of the universe.
Prof. Nidea:
That’s right and it is incredibly dangerous! We are going to
shrink you so that you are no bigger than an ant and attempt to
send you inside Katie’s body!
R.G.
So children, get ready for the ride of your lives as you take a
tour of Katie’s circulatory system!
(Music- Twilight zone/children play glockenspiel runs up and down) Lights
flicker.
(Two children create pumping noise by banging drum)
On projector above the action on stage – Use Digi-Blue camera to project a live
stream of Katie’s head. She should make facial expressions to accompany the
action on stage.
R.G.
Welcome children to the heart. This is the pump that keeps you
alive by pumping blood around the body. Your body needs a
steady supply of blood to keep it working right.
Off it goes out of the arteries…
(Red and white blood cells leave the heart and head to the lungs).
(Two children dressed with lungs across their tops. The lungs give oxygen (balloons)
to the red blood cells, they take these and give them to the muscle and the brain)
The heart first pumps blood to your lungs. Here, the blood
picks up oxygen from the air that you have breathed in. The
blood (carrying oxygen) then travels back to your heart, where
it receives a second push. This time, it’s sent to all the other
parts of your body, where it delivers the oxygen, before
travelling back to the heart again through veins.
(Music changes to faster music, blood runs faster)
Blood:
She must be exercising again!
R.G.
When we exercise, the heart beats faster to get the oxygen
carried by our blood to our muscles more quickly.
(Red blood cells stop and go off stage and sit down)
Child in crowd:
Why are there white blood cells?
Nidea:
Good question child. Let’s see what our white blood cells do….
Phantom of the opera music for the disease. They come on pretending to pull at
and tear and bite the body around them.
Children dressed
in black:
WE ARE DISEASE, WE’RE GOING TO MAKE KATIE
FEEL POORLY
Music changes to Eye of the Tiger. White blood cells come on, and stand in super
hero stance
White blood cells:
Oh no you won’t, we’ll stop you!
Music kicks into the “Dur… dur dur dur” (Fight between white blood cells and
disease)
Disease dies
White blood cells:
We fight diseases in your blood. You’ll be ok now Katie!
(Katie – still on projector- puts thumbs up and looks happy)
Nidea:
Does that answer your question?
Child in crowd:
Yes thank you very much!
(KLAXON GOES OFF/ WHISTLE IS BLOWN)
R.G:
Ivor, you know what that sound means, we’d better get these
children back to their normal sizes otherwise there will be no
reversing the experiment and they will be stuck in here forever!
Ivor Nidea:
Ok children, close your eyes and count with me…5,4,3,2,1.
(Twilight music and lights back on)
Ivor:
I hope that you have enjoyed our interesting experiments.
Couple of children:
Thank you for watching our assembly.