A little bit of Broadway!

Members of Mrs. Parry's 5th grade class took on a sizable project as they tackled their own original production "Just off the Coast of Australia." Working with student teacher Miss Murphy, the group wrote the script, designed and built the sets, created and sewed the costumes, and finally performed the play before fellow students in the Great Room.

The play centers on a band of archeologists who board a ship, the S.S. Explorer to travel to a South Seas island in search of buried treasure. In their midst is an archeologist bent on revenge.

While the rest of the party is asleep, she steals the treasure map and replaces it with a forgery. With help from the Spirits of the Island, the archeologists' dog alertly switches the maps back. The traitor steals the ship leaving the group stranded on the island.

But, the false map proves her undoing as she grounds the ship on the reef. The dog faithfully comes to her rescue.

The archeologists resourcefully build a raft and sail to safety.

One year later and much wealthier, they return to the island with their betrayer now in the role of their servant.

"Just of the Coast of Australia" included Hanna Wilday, Nicholas Taylor, Evangeline Wilcox, Bailery Pitonza, Ashley Andres, Benjamin Kane, Kendal Robins, Joshua Kost, Katherine Rockwell, Ryan Blair, Chelsea Diamond, Noelle Bunker, and Kayla Bowerman.