The Fleece Force
Your 5-9s’ Christmas just got sheep-ier, police-ier and fleece-ier!
Busy Bethlehem is being well and truly looked after by The Fleece Force, who are keeping the peace and making sure that only those who are there for the census are let in! However, this proves harder than anticipated as the nativity story unfolds and shepherds, kings and angels amongst others turn up. It’s a lot for Constable Woolly, who is new to the job, but Constable Jumper is on hand to join the dots and lead them all to the stable and the newborn King.
These are characters your classes are bound to love and songs they won’t want to stop singing, all wrapped up in the familiar nativity story, with a sheepy twist!
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WHY YOU’LL LOVE IT
It’s a laugh-out-loud nativity that’s ‘full of joy!’
About The Fleece Force
From the hit writing team that brought you Baarmy Bethlehem, A King Is Born and A Bundle Of Joy, this brand-new nativity is one to get excited about for your 5-9s, with the simplest of staging and minimal props.
THE SONGS
From the Fleece Force’s opening march to the angels’ gospel-style good news (with simple backing vocals) and a SUPER celebratory finale, you can expect audiences to be singing these ones all the way home!
THE STORY
This nativity has everything you’d want and expect from the traditional nativity story, as well as some extra important Police Sheep for good measure! The Fleece Force are overseeing the action as the nativity unfolds – and of course, they are a big part of the finale celebrations too!
THE CHARACTERS
What’s so exciting about this nativity are the new personalities your classes will love to bring to life – we’ve got Chief Fleecy, in charge of The Fleece Force, Constable Jumper, whose laid-back approach is not always appreciated by the others, and brand-new to the force is Constable Woolly, who makes it her business to keep Bethlehem on the straight and narrow! AND of course that’s on top of all the regular nativity characters!
An editable script is available for this product when you purchase a Premium package that includes an eSongbook.
Character List & Staging Suggestions
There are speaking parts for 30 children, but these can be increased to 80+ by splitting the narrators’ lines, Police Sheep 1-6’s lines and the shepherds’ lines between a large number of children. There are lots of essential non-speaking parts – citizens, passers-by and extra visitors, innkeepers and angels to sing their designated verses in Songs 2, 3 and 4.
If you have a small cast, the 30 speaking parts can easily be decreased to 20 using the following suggestions:
- Have just one narrator
- Police Sheep 1, 2, 3 & 4 double up as Angel Gabriel, Angels 1-2 and a camel
- The two visitors double up as two shepherds and they take all the shepherds’ lines between them
- Innkeeper 1 doubles up as a camel
The essential non-speaking parts necessary for the songs can be doubled up by anyone not needed in those scenes as their own character, or the whole cast could sing each song. Toy sheep could be used by the shepherds for the non-speaking sheep up on the hills of Bethlehem.
(Total length of music: 13 mins approx)
Licence Information
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The following items are available for this product:
Teacher's Book
- Character list
- Staging and prop suggestions
- Costume ideas
- Script
- Lyrics and music score for 7 songs (Piano music score, melody and chords)
- Licence and copyright details
Audio CD
- Vocal tracks sung by children
- Professional backing tracks
Words on Screen™ eSongbook
- An online Words on Screen™ product to stream or download
- Extractable MP3s, printable lyrics, scores, scripts (including editable script*) & additional resources
- Words on Screen™ versions of songs so that you can display song lyrics on any whiteboard, computer screen, television or interactive touchscreen. The lyrics synchronize with the music as it plays making them easy to teach and easy to learn
- Flexibility to create an expandable library of Words on Screen™ song collections, nativities and musicals in your Out of the Ark online account
- Enhanced operation features including ‘double-click’ to hear and teach a single line
- Words on Screen™ user guide
- Single-User licence (Please note a Performance Licence is still required to perform this musical)
- Licence & copyright details
Annual Performance Licence
An Annual Performance Licence covers any number of performances of a particular musical or nativity within 12 months of the date of ordering. A separate Annual Performance Licence is required for each product title.
Find out more about what your Annual Performance Licence will legally cover you to do.
Rehearsal CDs
- Vocal tracks sung by children
- Professional backing tracks
- Available in packs of 5, 10 or 20