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20 swindonlink.com • May 2009
Up, up and away at Uplands

Superman and a host of other super heroes put in an appearance in a play by pupils at Uplands Special
School.
They staged three performances The play centred around Mark appear to help him with problems,
of the Superheroes play which ex- who finds it difficult to make friends including Spiderman, the Fantastic
plored issues encountered by the and lives in a fantasy world filled Four and Batman and Robin.
pupils including bullying, bereave- with the superheroes he has seen in Downhearted at the end of a day
ment and low self esteem. Drama films, comics and on TV. when nothing seemed to go right,
teacher and producer, Phil Joyner, His heroes come to life when his Mark is consoled by his dad who
said that the aim was to find a theme bus breaks down and Mark calls for tells him that he is great just the way
that fired pupils’ imagination. Superman’s help. Mark’s adven- he is. To cheer him the show ended
The result was a thought pro- tures continue as a range of heroes with a rousing superhero party.
voking story which gave everyone Uplands superheroes line-up
the chance to express their talents.
“Everybody was keen on the idea
of superheroes because the pupils
could take on different persona and
have fun dressing up,” said Phil.
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