King’s Quest at Highfield Primary School, Hillingdon.
Last week our King’s Quest drama project visited Highfield Primary school in Hillingdon for the penultimate performance of the year. Amie Buhari and David Pollendine worked with around 60 children from year 5 and year 6 exploring the history of the King James translation of the bible and the implications for our country. While a lot of the play’s focus is on the achievements of this impressive bible translation into English, we don’t want to dodge some of the negative implications. In our final consequences scene we see how people across our nation were empowered to take a message of hope and God’s Love to the world. Many roads, hospitals and schools were built in missionary activity, which went hand in hand with the King James Bible. However often the cultures we went to serve, were not respected and being English became synonymous with being a good Christian. The children show this by holding a garden party at the end, drinking tea and eating scones to the sound of “An English Country Garden.” At the end of the performance a special visitor from the department of Education had come to the school and happened to watch our performance. He was very impressed by the performance and you can check out his comments here. Next week our last performance of King’s Quest will take place at George Greens School in Tower Hamlets.
