Prompt sheet
The characters
Cinderella
Cinderella’s stepmother
Ugly sisters
Fairy Godmother
Cinderella’s father
Prince
Plot
An invitation arrives from the palace. The Prince is looking for a wife.
The ugly sisters go to the ball at the palace.
Cinderella is not allowed to go.
Cinderella’s fairy godmother appears and makes Cinderella’s dreams come
true.
Cinderella goes to the ball.
At midnight Cinderella runs from the palace.
Cinderella’s shoe falls off as she runs.
The Prince finds the shoe.
The Prince searches the land for the foot that fits the shoe.
Eventually he finds Cinderella.
The shoe fits Cinderella.
The Prince and Cinderella get married and live happily ever after.
Week 1
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Her equipment – what she
uses
Character Profile
Her nature – the way she is
Her appearance – the way she looks
Her actions – what she does
Her effect – what she achieves
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Week 1
HRP Rhyme and Ritual
The Princess and the Pea
This is a tale about a princess who couldn’t sleep!
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there was a beautiful castle. It
was built into the side of a cliff, right at the sea’s edge, with a path winding
down from the cliff’s edge and stone steps at the really steep parts. In the
summer, when the sun shone and the weather was calm, the sea lapped gently
at the castle walls, and you could hear the swishing sound of the waves as
they trailed back over the small stones. Then the sea grew almost warm, and
the people from the castle would dive from the castle walls and splash
around in the sea. But in winter, storms would arrive with gale force winds
and lashing rain. Then the sea would be like a grey frothing torrent,
enormous waves beating and slamming against the castle as if the ocean was
determined to break it up and drive the pieces back into the sea. But the
castle stayed standing, and the walls became just a little more weatherbeaten.
A king and queen lived in the castle and they had one son, called Robert.
Robert was a very happy boy, and on the whole, he didn’t get lonely, even
though there were not many children around to play with. He and the son of
the cook would go fishing along the rocky shore, coming back with sea trout
and crabs, which his friend’s father would cook on an open fire for supper
that night. And, as he grew older, he made friends with some of the lads in
the village at the top of the cliff, and they would have surfing competitions,
swimming out beyond the waves and then riding in on the crests, on pieces of
driftwood.
Well, the time came when the king and queen decided that Robert should be
married. Obviously he needed to marry a princess, but where would they
find a real princess? There were other castles further down the coast, and
some inland, beyond the high moors which could be seen, grey and purple in
the evening sunlight, from the highest towers of the castle. But the king
and queen knew well that, although there were lords and ladies who lived in
these castles, who called their sons princes and their daughters princesses,
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they were not real princes and princesses. And they wanted Robert to
marry a real princess.
The king put out a proclamation, letting it be known that his son was looking
for a bride. Lots of princesses came to the castle, brought there by their
parents, in the hope of marrying Robert. The castle was a beautiful and very
ancient one, and the lands around it were rich and prosperous, so there were
many families who wished their daughters to become queen of the castle.
Each week a new family would arrive, with an entourage of servants carrying
all the baggage on donkeys, treading carefully down the steep paths and
steps to the castle by the sea. And each week the queen, Robert’s mother,
would subject the princess to a test, to find out if she was a real princess or
not.
The queen knew that a real princess will have very tender skin, and that she
can only sleep on a bed made from the finest feathers. So each princess
that arrived at the castle was shown into a magnificent bedchamber, filled
with perfumed waters and silken hangings. In this chamber stood a
wonderful and very ancient four-poster bed, with twenty feather
mattresses piled on top of it. The bed stood so high that you had to climb a
ladder to get in! Each of the princesses was very impressed by the bed, and
marvelled at its age and the beauty of its carvings. They also found it very
comfortable – with all those feather mattresses. But what they did not
know was that the queen had placed a small hard pea beneath the bottom
mattress. She knew that a real princess would be able to feel the pea
through all the twenty mattresses, and that she would not find the bed
comfortable at all!
So when each princess came down in the morning, after sleeping on the
wonderful feather bed, the queen would say, “And how did you sleep my
dear?” When the princess replied, “Very well. Your bed is so comfortable,”
the queen would shake her head and look at her husband and son and they
would know that this was not a real princess at all!
One night, just as the summer was ending and winter was starting to make
itself felt, a knock was heard on the castle door. At first the king, queen
and Robert thought that it was just the tapping of a stray piece of wood,
blown up out of the sea by the stormy winds and the drifting rain. But, as
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the tapping noise persisted, the prince opened the door, and there stood the
most beautiful girl he had ever seen. True she was dripping wet, and her
hair fell down her face, running with water, and her cloak and dress were
dark with rain. But despite this, she was so beautiful that the prince just
stood and stared. The king and queen came rushing out to see who was
there, and saw this girl standing dripping onto their hall floor. All she kept
saying was, “I am a real princess.”
“Well,” thought the queen, “we’ll see about that!” So the queen had the
servants light a fire in the magnificent bedchamber, and prepare the
beautiful feather bed with stone hot water bottles, and help the princess to
get warm and clean and dry. When she was changed she came down and ate
supper with the king and the queen and the prince, and once again, Robert
was struck with how beautiful she was and how charming she seemed. Then
the princess climbed the ladder into the ancient four-poster bed, and
snuggled down on top of the twenty feather mattresses. But underneath
them all was the very small hard dry pea!
In the morning, the queen greeted her guest as she came into breakfast.
“And how did you sleep my dear?” The princess took a while to reply, and
then she said, “I am afraid I did not sleep at all well. There seemed to be
something hard under the mattresses, and I tossed and turned all night. It
felt as if I was sleeping on a stone!” The queen and king looked at each
other, and then Robert turned to them. “You see,” he said triumphantly, “she
is a real princess!”
So the princess married Robert in his castle on the edge of the sea, and
naturally, they lived happily ever after. But Robert had the pea set on a
velvet cushion and covered by a glass dome where it stood, on display in the
castle entrance hall. It reminded him of the way that a real princess had
come dripping into his life!
Week 2
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been
bed?
Who’s
in
sleeping
my
Week 3 (Enlarge)
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When Goldilocks Went to the House of the Bears
When Goldilocks went to the house of the bears,
Oh what did her blue eyes see?
A bowl that was huge,
A bowl that was small,
And a bowl that was tiny, and that was all,
She counted them, one, two, three.
When Goldilocks went to the house of the bears,
Oh what did her blue eyes see?
A chair that was huge,
A chair that was small
And a chair that was tiny, and that was all.
She counted them, one, two, three.
When Goldilocks went to the house of the bears,
Oh what did her blue eyes see?
A bed that was huge,
A bed that was small,
And a bed that was tiny, and that was all.
She counted them, one, two, three.
When Goldilocks went to the house of the bears,
Oh what did her blue eyes see?
A bear that was huge,
A bear that was small
And a bear that was tiny, and that was all.
They growled at her, ger, ger, ger.
Week 3
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Question
Week 3
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