On Thursday and Friday evening, P6 and P7 pupils from Eastern Primary School presented We'll Meet Again to packed audiences at the Bonar Hall in Dundee. This was a musical involving every pupil in the top two years of the school. Not content with the challenge of such an undertaking, the school circulated the main parts on each night.We’ll Meet Again is entertainment as well as a learning experience for its cast of pupils and its audience. They share the opportunity to explore in drama and music what it might have been like to be an evacuee during the Second World War; both the fun and opportunities as well as the pain of separation in uncertain times without a mobile phone and email.
In the course of preparing for the production, pupils met members of Broughty Ferry Local History Group who had been researching and sharing their own experiences of growing up in Broughty Ferry in the 1930s. The programme notes also included extracts from the Eastern Primary school log in 1939/40 when its then pupils were evacuated to Brechin.
The solo and group singing was impressive and entertaining. The pupils, staff and helpers are to be congratulated for such an engaging and rewarding performance and learning experience.
