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Shakespeare Week – Best primary resources and worksheets for 2024

Shakespeare Week 2024 takes place between 18th-24th March, so check out these great William Shakespeare activities, ideas and lessons for primary schools…

What is Shakespeare Week?

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Shakespeare Week is the annual national celebration of Shakespeare in primary schools, organised by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.

Since its launch in 2014, over eight million primary school children have had fun, first experiences of the world’s greatest writer.

In 2024, Shakespeare Week takes place between 18th-24th March.

Shakespeare mental health and wellbeing lesson plan

Do you wear your heart on your sleeve? Are you sometimes the green-eyed monster? Although Shakespeare wrote over 400 years ago, the creative language he used to describe the human spirit remains relevant today.

These free emotional wellbeing activities will help your pupils to become Will’s Wellbeing Warriors as part of your Shakespeare Week celebrations.

Official Shakespeare Week resources

Michael Rosen shares his poem for Shakespeare Week 2023 from Shakespeare Birthplace Trust on Vimeo .

There’s a wealth of resources, ideas and videos that guarantee rich and memorable learning experiences while still meeting key curriculum requirements. Unleash children’s creativity as they make books, sing, dance, perform and create.

Creative writing

There’s a bookmaking resource pack containing over 50 ideas for making a Shakespeare-inspired book, enabling children to explore a variety of writing styles and genres while having fun.

Children can also become Will’s Word Warriors with beautifully illustrated activity booklets – but beware of the Shakespearian insult generator contained within!

Online broadcasts

In 2023 there was a special assembly filmed in Stratford-upon-Avon with kids’ TV presenter Ben Cajee, which you can still watch online. There was also an inspiring workshop with children’s author and poet Michael Rosen and a drawing workshop with Horrible Histories artist Martin Brown .

Head to the official Shakespeare Week site to find a whole host of extra activities and ideas.

“A really inspiring week, where the children loved playing with words and ideas, learning language without realising!” Teacher testimonial

UKS2 comprehension pack

Use this UKS2 comprehension pack from Plazoom to learn about Shakespeare. Pupils will find out about Shakespeare’s life, legacy and how he became a writer.

Read the biographical text before answering questions. You can also use the biography as a model text/ WAGOLL for your biography unit.

KS2 English lesson plan

By going behind the scenes and learning more about the historical context, Shakespeare becomes far more approachable.

In this free KS2 English lesson plan pupils will learn:

To make inferences from the text
To develop their summarising and prediction skills
How to write effectively for a range of purposes and a specific audience
How to use dialogue to convey information about characters

KS1/2 English lesson plan

Created for Shakespeare Week 2018, this free lesson plan lets children discuss and evaluate how Shakespeare used language.

It teaches children to form nouns by compounding and how to recognise compound words. Pupils will use drama approaches to support understanding of the meaning of phrases.

Shakespearean insults worksheets

William Shakespeare was a master wordsmith and his plays featured language that we still use today. His writing contained many insults and cutting remarks that would make people wince even now!

Use this Amazing Insults resource from Plazoom to explore the language he used to insult, and to create your own Shakespearean insults and infer their meaning.

BBC Shakespeare teaching resources

Watch a nine-video animated version of Romeo and Juliet , alongside comprehensive teaching notes, worksheets and activities. Or take a look at similar resources for A Midsummer Night’s Dream , Macbeth and The Tempest . Check out all the resources .

The Tempest unit of work

A wonderful story full of magic and excitement, The Tempest deals with themes of revenge and forgiveness, power and responsibility. It even has a comedy subplot. What more could you ask for as an introduction to Shakespeare?

This free unit download contains a three-week plan for teaching The Tempest in KS2, with explanatory notes.

Give children a fabulous first experience of the world’s best known writer by exploring Shakespeare’s stories with these cross-curricular activities from Sally Gray, education officer at The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust …

Create a Shakespeare portrait

Make oak gall ink and create a pen and ink Shakespeare using the kind of ink he would have used to write with.

To make oak gall ink you need to collect a couple of good handfuls of oak galls and crush using a pestle and mortar.

Place in a pan and cover with water, pop in a piece of iron such as an old horseshoe. Bring to the boil and simmer for about 20 minutes until the tannins are released and it is a nice brown colour. Strain and allow to cool.

You can also cheat by buying replica oak gall ink online!

“Use an app such as ‘Face swap’ to add funny effects”

Alternatively, make an abstract Shakespeare. Draw a sketch of Shakespeare and then use a tablet to take photographs of the portrait.

Use an app such as ‘Face swap’ to add funny effects. Create a selection of images that show a range of thoughts and emotions.

Why not hold your own online or physical exhibition of Shakespeare portraits?

Sail to the isle of noises

Use air-drying clay to create the isle of noises from The Tempest .

Add characters from the play or specific landmarks such as a shelter for Caliban. Place the island in a water tray. Make rafts to sail to the isle of noises using recycled corks, elastic bands, cocktail sticks and card for the flags.

Why not then create your own soundscape of sounds and sweet airs to bring the isle of noises to life?

Invite the children to stand in a large circle and explain that they are going to create a soundscape. A soundscape is made by creating an immersive environment using body percussion and voices to set a scene.

Talk about the noises that might be heard on the magical isle, such as birds tweeting, waves lapping, sand crunching, trees blowing gently in the breeze, creatures calling and so on.

“‘Conduct’ the orchestra to create your soundscape”

Try out each suggested sound and then, while remaining in the circle, divide the children into small groups, giving each group a sound.

Explain that you will be a conductor and agree on signals for making the sounds quieter, louder, stopping the sounds, bringing sounds in and so on.

‘Conduct’ the orchestra to create your soundscape. Ask for volunteers to take turns to conduct.

Write a poem

After creating your soundscape, use the sounds and emotions explored as the starting point for a simple three-line poem.

For example, using The Tempest storm as an example, start with a sound (the sailors howling) then add some description, eg ‘The terrified sailors, horribly howling.’

Next, ask the children where the action is taking place (on the deck). Describe this location (salt-soaked). Line one now reads, ‘The terrified sailors, howling horribly on the salt-soaked deck’. Repeat this process to add two more lines.

Immerse yourself

Work with the children to design a ‘narrative environment’ or ‘storyworld’ in your classroom or school library that picks out a key or magical moment from one of Shakespeare’s stories and offers an immersive place for children to delve deeply into the story.

Using top tips from The Story Museum in Oxford here are some ways to create A Midsummer Night’s Dream storyworld:

The scene: The story lends itself to a beautiful story space through its setting in the woods at night. Use woodland coloured drapes and bring in some branches to attach to the display boards. You could also bring in large pot plants as additional foliage. The children can add magical elements such as decorated pebbles and pine cones, fairy figures (home-made or bought).
The objects: All of Shakespeare’s plays have evocative objects in them, and in A Midsummer Night’s Dream the characters have some intriguing accoutrements about their person too! Has one of Titania’s fairies, such as Mustardseed, dropped her scented wings? Has Puck hidden his Love-in-Idleness concoction somewhere?
The senses: Add some twinkling fairy lights and make a recording of the children performing a ‘dream soundscape’ for a forest soundtrack.

Explore his language

About a thousand words that we use today are first recorded in Shakespeare’s poems and plays. Often he was simply the first to write them down, but he also invented words to express the meaning he had in his head.

Some of the words first found in Shakespeare include ‘fairyland’ (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), ‘amazing’ (Richard II) and ‘squander’ (The Merchant of Venice).

“Some of Shakespeare’s devices for making new words included adding a prefix such as ‘un-’”

Language is constantly changing and children can learn a lot from discovering how Shakespeare used words creatively.

Some of Shakespeare’s devices for making new words included adding a prefix such as ‘un-’, meaning ‘not’, as in ‘uncomfortable’. He also added suffixes such as ‘-less’, meaning ‘without’, as in ‘noiseless’.

Challenge pupils to use a prefix or suffix in new ways to create words. For example, which words could they create if someone took away their bike (‘unbiked’ or ‘bikeless’)?

Pounce a portrait

Nowadays if we want to make a copy of something we can simply photocopy or scan it. In Tudor times, the technique for reproducing a picture was called ‘pouncing’ and can easily be recreated by children to good effect.

Find a simple image of William Shakespeare and place a sheet of tracing paper underneath the image, secured with paper clips.

Rest the image and tracing paper on a piece of foam then prick through the lines of the image with a tapestry needle or awl. Place the pricked tracing paper onto a clean sheet of paper and rub charcoal through the holes.

Remove the tracing paper and blow away the excess charcoal to create a dot-to-dot image which you can join up to make an outline. Add colour with chalk pastels or paints.

Cook a Tudor dish

Sweet frumenty was a popular winter dish in Tudor times. It tastes like a fruity porridge. Follow this simple recipe from Mistress Sarah at Mary Arden’s Farm – home of Shakespeare’s mother, to make your own delicious dish:

Ingredients (makes four bowls):

150g pearl barley
500ml single cream
Two tbsp clear honey
¼ tsp cinnamon
½ cup raisins
¼ tsp nutmeg

Boil the barley in a large saucepan of water until firm but cooked. Leave to drain. Add all the other ingredients to the saucepan and heat gently to a simmer.

Add the drained, cooked barley and heat together, stirring thoroughly. Serve hot.

My experience tells me otherwise, says primary school teacher and education consultant Stuart Rathe…

The other week, I told my Year 5 class the story of Cymbeline , by William Shakespeare. It’s a lesser-known late work that plays out as a sort of ‘Shakespeare’s Greatest Hits’.

There’s a wicked queen, a girl disguised as a boy, a faked death, mistaken identities, war, romance and an audacious and unexpected last-minute appearance from the god Jupiter. You name it, Cymbeline ’s got it. My class were blown away.

From the gruesome ( Macbeth ) to the fantastical ( A Midsummer Night’s Dream ), Shakespeare can be a huge hit even with very young children. And with the right resources, a Shakespeare story can make a fantastic English unit of work, lending itself to drama, reading and writing outcomes.

Telling tales

There’s a difference between reading a story and being a storyteller. I remember, as an early career teacher, telling the story of Hamlet to a lower Key Stage 2 class. Conjuring up castle battlements and an armour-clad ghost as if from nowhere immersed my class in the story – despite the dreaded post-lunch-slump timeslot.

If you’re not familiar with the story you’re going to introduce, use a simple plot summary to write key points on cue cards before you start. When I prepare for a storytelling session, I usually grab some rudimentary props as well (a paper hat for a crown, a beaker for a poisoned chalice). I then give these to some of the children and encourage them to help me act out the story.

Often, I find pupils are still acting out the story at break and lunch times, putting their own spin on a classic tale. Investing time in immersion at the start means pupils are engaged in their learning outcomes for the remainder of the unit.

Freeze-framing

Ian McKellen once said, “I’ve never heard anybody say, ‘Oh, we had the most wonderful class where we read Act I, Scene 3.’” He was right.

After an initial storytelling immersion, a good way to create ‘instant’ Shakespeare productions is to use short summaries of the plot in ten numbered points, to produce freeze-framed dramatisations.

BBC Teach has animated versions of Romeo and Juliet , Macbeth , A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest , including accompanying teacher resource packs, which include ten-point plot summaries.

With pupils in groups of five or six, divide plot point summaries amongst groups, and give them a short time to devise a frozen tableaux representing each plot point.

Watch the freeze frames back in chronological order, prefaced by one member of each group reading out their plot point summary. In 30 minutes, your pupils will have successfully retold a Shakespeare story.

Afterwards, I like to blow up the ten points onto ten A4 sheets – one point per sheet – and display them chronologically on the classroom working wall, to give pupils a sense of the shape and structure of the story.

This also works as a great visual prompt in class, allowing you to ask questions like, “How do you think Lady Macbeth feels at this point in the story, and why?”

Tackling language and rhythm

A mention of Shakespeare’s blank verse, also known as iambic pentameter, might trigger vivid and panicked flashbacks to your own school experiences. But it really needn’t be scary or dull. In fact, it can be a lot of fun.

A blank verse follows a 10-beat pattern – five pairs of beats, with a weak stress on the first beat and a stronger stress on the second beat. (Say it out loud: De-DUM, De-DUM, De-DUM, De-DUM, De-DUM).

If you clap out the rhythm with a group of Key Stage 2 pupils, I guarantee they will tell you it sounds like (a) a heart beating and (b) a horse galloping. Every time.

Iambic pentameter is found in some of Shakespeare’s most famous lines such as: “Once more unto the breach dear friends once more” or “I never saw true beauty till this night”. But it follows a natural rhythm that we still find in modern English, as with: This play is perfect for my Year 5 class.

I introduce iambic pentameter with clapping games. Have pupils sit in a circle and clap some simple rhythms for them to echo back, then introduce some examples from Shakespeare.

Key Stage 2 children love to identify and play with this rhythm once they’ve got to grips with it. I ask pupils to write their own iambic pentameter poetry, based on stills of key moments from Shakespeare animations. These make a wonderful incidental written outcome in the middle of a Shakespeare unit.

Watching different interpretations

Shakespeare’s work is timeless, with modern retellings sitting side by side with the classics. I like to show pupils stills and clips from different versions. Try watching the catchy pop video animation of Romeo and Juliet from Shakespeare in Shorts:

Alongside this, try the BBC Teach animations . Is the storytelling clear? What impact does a modern setting have? What age range is this version suitable for?

Engagement with different versions of a Shakespeare text is good training for Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 study, where pupils will be expected to explore stagecraft and performance choices.

Exploring key scenes

I use slightly abridged versions of key scenes (with original Shakespeare language) to get pupils to study scenes in detail and develop their performance skills. I usually choose examples with only two characters.

I put pupils in groups of four, and use a technique called ‘ghosting’. This involves two pupils taking on the roles. Another two pupils stand at the performers’ shoulders, holding the script and quietly feeding lines to them.

These ‘ghosts’ allow the performers to be hands-free, making their performances more expressive. You will find that they soon become familiar with the text and require less feeding from the ‘ghosts’.

Another fun script activity is to pretend the scene is being played out on Eastenders . Take the essence of the scene, improvise, and play around with it in modern language.

I like to take pupils back to the original script after this improvisation exercise, but ask them to remember the ‘modern’ emotions and feelings they had when delivering the Shakespearean lines.

By acting out key scenes, pupils empathise with characters and can then produce more expressive and impressive writing in character.

How to feel confident teaching Shakespeare

Use a simple plot summary to write key points on cue cards and become a storyteller.
Create ‘instant’ Shakespeare productions by using short summaries of the plot in ten numbered points.
Introduce pupils to iambic pentameter with simple clapping games.
Make use of play extracts for acting and showing back. You’ll be surprised how prepared pupils are to take risks with Shakespeare’s language if they have a prior understanding of the story. BBC Teach animation resources include adapted script extracts.
Don’t be afraid to draw on modern references. Modern dramas or soap opera clips could be great ways to help children access a melodramatic Shakespearean acting style.

Stuart Rathe is a primary school teacher and education consultant. A new BBC Teach animation of Romeo and Juliet can be found at tinyurl.com/bddhdx43 .

By taking small pieces from his plays and experimenting with the language, your children will soon be producing sonnet-worthy work. See how educational trainer and writer Pie Corbett taught Shakespeare to Y5…

Session 1 – Shall I compare thee to a bacon butty?

Of course, everyone had heard of Shakespeare and most knew that he was a playwright. We spent a little time in which I filled in the background, before introducing the idea for the day – we would try to write like Shakespeare.

To start off, I read them sonnet 18, which starts with the words almost every teacher will know, ‘Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day?’

First, we cleared the basic idea of the poem out of the way. He’s praising his girlfriend and saying that even when she grows old, she will still be beautiful because he has captured her forever in the poem.

Making comparisons

We focused on the opening comparison. Of course, imagery like this is, in a way, a total lie. When Robbie Burns wrote, ‘O my luve’s like a red, red rose’ he was trying to flatter her – to make her sound amazing and appealing.

The truth is that she would have been nothing like a real rose.

I suggested that we try out some similar comparisons by thinking about someone we admired and then asking them with what they would like to be compared.

To help, we listed all sorts of unusual and amazing things for the comparisons:

crescent moon
frost on the path
bacon butty
steam on the window
tiger’s eye
snake’s skin
sheep’s wool
polished car bonnet

Surprising ideas

We selected a few of the ideas and, with a little polishing, wrote together – with me scribing on the flipchart. We discussed how some ideas made the person sound good and others sounded ominous, funny or surprising.

Shall I compare thee to…

frost glittering on the hedgerows?
a tiger’s amber eye, coldly staring?
a bacon buttie and a cup of sweet tea?
the six sides of a mathematician’s dice?

We talked too about how some of the ideas sounded familiar and therefore did not have so much effect. The ones that worked best were surprising and totally fresh.

These brought a new idea into the world. We kept the old-fashioned word ‘thee’ as we felt that it ‘sounded better’ than the word ‘you’, which seemed to have less emphasis when read aloud.

Memorable lines

We then tried imitating other memorable lines that I had carefully selected as possible creative catalysts.

For instance, in Anthony and Cleopatra a soothsayer boasts, ‘In nature’s infinite book of secrecy / A little I can read’.

So we invented different books – a book of sorrow, a book of hope, a book of dreams, etc, and then created similar lines using the same Shakespearean pattern. For example:

In the goblin’s horrifying book of terrible torment, a little I can read… – Izzy, age 9

Once the children had the basic idea, I had up my sleeve a number of other lines that could be used in the same way.

We talked them through and together invented possibilities. Some children selected only one idea and wrote many lines, whilst others experimented with different lines, writing several ideas of their own for each.

Freedom to choose

I suspect they enjoyed the freedom to choose what to concentrate upon, but were also supported by a strong scaffold that meant everyone could succeed.

Here are a few examples, showing Shakespeare’s original and a child’s response. We ended the session by reading aloud lines and commenting on what we liked.

Original: But soft! Methinks I scent the morning air Child’s: But soft! Methinks I see the sunlight drifting

Original: Peace! How the moon sleeps Child’s: Peace! How the hills still

Original: The stars will kiss the valleys first Child’s: The stars will run around the world

Session 2 – Getting dramatic

Having warmed up our Shakespearean tongues, in the next session we moved on to looking at act 2, scene 1 of A Midsummer Night’s Dream .

This is where Puck meets a fairy: ‘How now spirit? Whither wander you?’

In pairs, the children tried out this greeting and invented replies. We heard a few and then I read them what the fairy in the play replies:

Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire. I do wander everywhere Swifter than the moon’s sphere. And I serve the fairy queen To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be. In their gold coats spots you see. Those be rubies, fairy favors. In those freckles live their savors. I must go seek some dewdrops here And hang a pearl in every cowslip’s ear. Farewell, thou lob of spirits. I’ll be gone. Our queen and all our elves come here anon.

Again, we sorted out the rough idea. The fairy goes everywhere, even through flood and fire, faster than the moon spins, working for Titania, the fairy Queen, making fairy rings.

The cowslips are her royal bodyguard and their speckled petals are sweetly-scented.

The fairy has to hang pearl earrings on the cowslips and so bids Puck farewell before the Queen and her elves arrive.

The fairy works for the fairy Queen and has to toil through the night dropping dew on the cowslips to make the world a prettier place.

We took the lines and read them together, working on saying them dramatically.

We tried varying how to say them – some loud, some soft, some fast and some slow with dramatic pauses.

The children then worked in groups of about four or five, reading the verse and developing some simple movements to accompany their interpretation.

This took some time before we watched each group.

Session 3 – A fairy’s work is never done

In the next session, we wondered what other tasks a fairy might be asked to fulfill.

I read them some of my ideas based on the lines ‘I must go seek some dewdrops here / And hang a pearl in every cowslip’s ear.’

Here is the model poem that I read to them:

I must sprinkle flecks of frost On the crisp autumn leaves. I must seize the hiss of an adder And hang dew on a spider’s web. I must help the blind mole Build pyramids of earth. I must sharpen blades of grass And put freckles on a child’s face. I must ride on a bumblebee’s back And polish the salmon’s scales. Farewell, thou aged beggar. I’ll be gone.

After reading it to them, I took initial responses. We then read it line by line, discussing what the words meant.

I pointed out that I had not rhymed and asked them not to rhyme either. Explain that you’re more interested in their own ideas about what a mischievous fairy might do.

Then we worked together to list ideas for the sorts of tasks that a fairy might be given so that everyone had ideas to draw upon. Though when the children wrote, most of them used their own inventions.

Session 4 – Boil and bubble; it’s no trouble!

For the final session, I read the children the wonderful version of Macbeth in Shakespeare Stories by Leon Garfield .

Alongside this, I read them the whole scene from Macbeth where the three weird women chant:

Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting, Lizard’s leg, and howlet’s wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

Creating your own version

Once again, we performed the piece with the children working in threes, circling imagined cauldrons and chanting.

We then used the basic pattern to create our own versions.

This is actually harder than you might imagine – it is worth trying it out yourself before you teach the session.

First of all, make a long list of possible ingredients with the children. Anything can be used – parts of animals, things found in nature or the city, things from home or school, toys, parts of vehicles.

The hard part is assembling the ideas so that you write rhyming couplets.

Luckily, the first part of each line does not have to rhyme so start boldly. For instance, you might agree upon ‘Bark of a tree’.

Now you will need to add on a second idea. This one will be crucial because you will have to find a suitable rhyme.

Let’s imagine someone suggests ‘Bark of a tree and wheel from a car’. Now you have to invent a second line that ends with a rhyme for ‘car’ – bar, afar, star, scar and tar are possibilities. Of these four, ‘star’ or ‘scar’ are probably the easiest and might give you:

Bark of a tree and wheel from a car Heel of shoe and gleam from a star

Bark of a tree and wheel from a car Heel of shoe and scab from a scar

Tussling with rhymes

If you cannot find a rhyme for the end of a line then you will need to change the final idea. It can make the task far easier if you have copies of the Rhyming and Spelling Dictionary .

Most rhyming structures are too hard for children, but this structure means they can be creative, tussle with the rhymes and satisfy their desire to produce a poem that sounds powerfully rhythmic when read aloud.

Here are the opening lines of a poem produced by two Year 5 children working together. You will notice that I suggested they began by using a few of Shakespeare’s lines to help them ‘hear’ the rhythm:

Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog.

Wing of an eagle and claw of a cat, Paw of a panther and tail of a rat.

Brick from a wall and shoe from a pony, Crab from a pool and smile off a phoney.

So we came to Shakespeare as writers rather than readers. Through trying out the same patterns and ideas, they came to read and enjoy his lines with a different eye and ear.

They were fellow writers who had also tussled to create metaphors or adopt adventurous patterns.

All this breaks down the mystery of the distant language and opens up the possibilities of internalising the patterns and stances of the world’s greatest writer.

Where there’s a Will, there’s a way

What helps children get to grips with Shakespeare?

At the end of my final lesson with that Year 5 class, I asked them to write me an evaluation, especially what had helped them as writers.

Here are a few of their comments that I found helped me understand what in my teaching had been useful to them as learners:

It was easier for me to write because of the pictures and models.
I have learnt it is easier to write a poem when I have another poem to look at.
When Mr Corbett showed us on the flipchart it was easier to understand.
Yes, I’ve learned a lot, but the thing is he broke it up into little stages.
I find it easier to write because of thinking time. He explained words.
You’ve helped me a lot with writing on the board.
Pie tested your words and made you think of the best word you can use. It also helped me that Pie put all of the words in different sections.

Make plays like Hamlet, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet relevant to your class no matter what the age range with these activity ideas from Stuart Rathe, education manager for Shakespeare Schools Foundation …

Tell a Shakespeare story

There’s a real difference between being a storyteller and simply reading a story. As a Year 4 primary teacher, I remember telling the story of Hamlet to my class. It’s my favourite play, and I know it well.

Conjuring up spooky castle battlements and adding actions (a stab through the curtain to kill Polonius!) really immersed my class in the story; you could hear a pin drop.

Even if you don’t know a Shakespeare story well, you could use a simple plot summary to write key plot points on cue cards.

Rehearse your storytelling at home and you’ll have pupils eating out of your hands. Already, you’re dealing with a living story rather than text on a page.

Engage reluctant readers

Shakespeare’s language can be daunting but there’s something out there for everyone. There are some great manga and comic strip adaptations of Shakespeare on the market.

Shakespeare’s tragedies are full of gore and bloodshed: Macbeth is an excellent starting point and a popular primary school text. For Harry Potter fans, there’s magic aplenty in A Midsummer Night’s Dream .

The Animated Tales

There’s no better introduction to Shakespeare’s stories than these 30-minute animated abridgements , first shown on television in the early 1990s.

Iambic pentameter

Shakespeare’s blank verse, also known as iambic pentameter, sounds like it should be impenetrably tricky at Key Stage 2. In fact, it’s huge fun. It acts as the heartbeat underscoring Shakespeare’s verse.

It follows a ten-beat pattern with the stress on alternate beats (De-DUM, De-DUM, De-DUM, De-DUM, De-DUM).

You can find it in some of Shakespeare’s most famous lines, such as:

Once more un to the breach dear friends once more !

But it can easily be mimicked in modern English, as with:

I’d like to have a no ther cup of tea !

Key Stage 2 pupils really enjoy making their thoughts fit this rhythmic pattern. Before they know it, they’re writing iambic poetry inspired by Macbeth ’s witches or Puck and his mischievous tricks.

Freeze framing

Why not get acting straight away? Shakespeare should come off the page as soon as possible, and using ten-point play summaries provides the perfect format for quick storytelling opportunities.

With pupils in groups of five or six, divide plot point summaries amongst the class and give pupils a short period of time to devise frozen tableaux representing each plot point.

Watch the freeze frames back in chronological order, prefaced by one member of each pupil group reading out the plot point summary.

In 30 minutes, your pupils have successfully told a Shakespeare story.

Silent movies and movie trailers

It’s fun to compare old and new movie-making approaches, and it reminds pupils that Shakespeare is as relevant now as he ever was.

Watch Percy Stow’s early silent short movie of The Tempest . If your pupils are already familiar with the story they should be able to identify the key silent movie scenes and characters. They could even add their own dialogue and sound effects.

Finally, they could compare early movie-making approaches with modern productions, by viewing the trailer for Julie Taymor’s 2010 film version of The Tempest :

Consider a workshop

SSF provides Key Stage 2 workshops to give pupils an exciting introduction to Shakespeare’s work.

Take part in SSF’s annual festival

Watch your pupils fly as they command Shakespearean language on stage in front of an audience of peers, parents and the local community.

Make sure your pupils’ initial introduction to Shakespeare leaves them wanting to get to know him better with these ideas from Helen Mears…

How did you first encounter Shakespeare? Think back to that moment now.

Was it sitting in a classroom reading barely comprehensible text aloud? Was it on the stage or screen listening to someone with a cut class accent reciting the words with an unwavering reverence?

Or did you discover him by some other means? A passionate teacher? A parent or relative who couldn’t wait to share him with you?

First encounters

First encounters with William Shakespeare are crucial. They shape future attitudes and perceptions of him.

A negative encounter can put someone off for life, a positive one can be the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship.

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Stand Up For Shakespeare manifesto is already established in the education system with its three key tenets:

“Do it on your feet; see it live; start it earlier”.

‘Starting it earlier’ can easily mean introducing Shakespeare at Key Stage 1 and then developing and building on that work through Key Stage 2.

“First encounters with William Shakespeare are crucial”

Children of this age have a natural predilection for rhythm, rhyme and storytelling. These elements are inherent to Shakespeare’s work and are an excellent hook into the plays.

Get physical

One thing that is universal in the growing trend towards teaching Shakespeare in more engaging ways is to ensure that he isn’t made to seem excessively special or important.

The pleasure of the plays, particularly in performance, is their joyous irreverence, their imaginative play with language and their rich characterisations.

These are elements you can utilise when teaching Shakespeare to very young children.

It is also productive to approach the texts with a drama focus rather than an English one, making the topic more fun and accessible.

The DfE’s Shakespeare For All Ages and Stages publication suggests that storytelling, improvisation and role play be the focus of KS1 work. KS2 work can develop aspects of performance and dramatic approaches with cultural visits encouraged.

‘Whoosh’ activity

With your youngest primary children, I recommend an active and physical approach to the plays.

Achieve this effectively with a ‘Whoosh’. To do this activity, ask everyone to stand in a circle. Next, read a synopsis of the play.

“Once the pupils have a sense of the story you can begin to work with small scenes”

Encourage children to enter the story and act out the actions that are being described. Examples of Whooshes are available in the RSC Teachers Toolkit for Primary Teachers .

Once the pupils have a sense of the story you can begin to work with small scenes or extracts from the play.

Pick your play

There are particular plays which lend themselves well to working with young children for differing reasons.

You can approach The Tempest in at least two different ways. The first is to explore the storm scene at the beginning of the play.

The following activity is described by the RSC’s Joe Winston in the Journal of Aesthetic Education (2012).

Encourage children to recreate the storm using a range of percussive sounds and through vocalisations based on snippets of wording from the play itself.

You can easily chant the Boatswain’s short and exclamatory lines. Use a cloth or parachute to simulate the tempestuous waves.

“Encourage children to recreate the storm using a range of percussive sounds”

Some children can take the roles of Ariel and his weather spirits raising the storm.

This is an activity that would work well outside, particularly on a windy day.

Winston also explored the relationship between Prospero and Caliban via the angry language exchanged between the two.

Split the children into two groups and trade snippets of the insults from the text itself or those you’ve created.

Winston believes that trading such insults in a controlled environment allows children to safely experiment and play with slightly darker elements of language, something they naturally enjoy doing.

Feel the rhythm

Another way into Shakespeare’s work is to focus on rhyme and rhythm.

While most of Shakespeare’s works are written in blank verse, he does use prose and other rhythms for particular effects and purposes.

One of these is particularly appealing to children. The witches in Macbeth speak in trochaic tetrameter (four pairs of a stressed followed by an unstressed beat).

This is a rhythm familiar through nursery rhymes such as Mary, Mary Quite Contrary and the opening lines of Humpty Dumpty.

Shakespeare uses the rhythm to distinguish these supernatural beings from the play’s human characters and the chant-like sound of the language will feel natural to children.

Double, double, toil and trouble

As an introductory activity to Macbeth, use Banquo’s description of the witches in Act I, Scene III. Encourage children to use their bodies to visualise the witches. Ask them to move around the space, perhaps with added vocalisations.

The ‘double, double, toil and trouble’ segment of the play is perfect to use with children owing to the chant-like use of trochaic tetrameter.

Read the spell itself, with the children joining in for the refrain. Try setting the words to a simple tune. Again, this activity would work well outside. Your field or playground could become the witches’ blasted heath.

“Encourage children to use their bodies to visualise the witches”

Children can collect items to use in their own version of the potion which can then also be chanted together. You can also write these items into your own version of the spell.

Introduce props, masks or other elements of costume to add visual richness.

Use this activity to discuss the nature of witches. Consider the impact on Macbeth of listening to their spells and prophecies.

These ideas are just a start. You can easily adapt other plays to use with primary aged children.

The important things to remember are the focus on drama and performative elements. Give children the chance to work with even very short extracts or text scraps of Shakespeare’s original language.

Look for the characters or aspects of language that will appeal to your pupils. Then you will be well on your way to making their first encounter with Shakespeare a positive one.

Shakespeare Week website
Springboard Shakespeare guides by Ben Crystal
Transforming the Teaching of Shakespeare with the Royal Shakespeare Company by Joe Winston
Creative Shakespeare: The Globe Education Guide to Practical Shakespeare by Fiona Banks
Teaching Shakespeare by Rex Gibson
The Globe’s Playground website
The RSC’s teacher resources
RSC Shakespeare Toolkit for Primary Teachers
British Shakespeare Association’s Teaching Shakespeare magazine
Shakespeare For All Ages and Stages

Browse Romeo and Juliet KS3 and KS4 resources .

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Tales From Shakespeare Resources

Discover writing activities and ways into teaching literacy, inspired by Michael Morpurgo's Tales from Shakespeare

A boy in a paper crown reads from a script in front of his classmates

Created in collaboration with Jan Anderson, an RSC Associate School teacher from Springhead Primary School, these resource packs offer brilliant ways into teaching writing outcomes as part of your study of Shakespeare at KS1-3. For suggestions on how to adapt activities for remote and home learning please take a look at the suggestions on this page.

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Adapting Rehearsal Room Approaches for Home Learning

Following years of working with young people and teachers we know that the best writing is produced as a result of working actively with Shakespeare's text and language, as actors do in a rehearsal room. However, we also realise that remote learning means that many of the activities in these packs will need to be adapted.

Below are some suggestions for how to do this, which we hope are helpful.

Freeze frames and still images - many of the exercises involving freeze frames and images can still be done online in a remote session by asking pupils to create their own statues, or to collect objects that represent a word or character and share them on screen. If the lesson is not being held online, but tasks are being set and completed remotely, you might also encourage pupils to make their freeze frames with toys or family members and photograph them to submit. Whenever you asking pupils to share images or convey something visually on screen it can also help to ask other pupils to turn off their cameras.
Performances and group work - with older pupils, much of the group work in these resources can be completed in breakout groups online. This depends on the method your school is using to deliver lessons, but can also be a great way for pupils to rehearse readings of the scenes or text they are working on. As they can't perform together, it is also a good idea to ask groups to divide the lines between them and then create movements or gestures to help convey their individual line. This means pupils can still share creative work, and think collectively about the imagery in the words. Challenging pupils to create short films and storyboards for scenes that they then present together can also help them to think in similar ways.
Text scraps and extracts - several activities in these resources require you to lay out text or lines from the play on the floor, asking pupils to write on them and add to them and imagine the worlds they describe. This can also be done by sharing these lines on screen, and asking pupils to annotate them together (if this function is available to you), or to do this independently or in groups so you can then share good examples. Introducing short extracts in this way is important for younger pupils, building up their awareness and confidence around Shakespeare's text.

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Author: John Doona
Main Subject: CPD
Subject: Literacy
Date Posted: 30 March 2012

Preparing your arguments for drama

• The staffroom. Staff are scoffing at your need for the hall on Wednesday morning…again! A serious educational discussion ensues. What are you messing about at?

• The school office. A parent has come to see you. He is concerned that his child’s learning is being interrupted by ‘fashionable’ teaching approaches – your drama sessions.

• The head’s office. Your headteacher would like you to account for yourself; noise coming from the hall, lights dimmed, candles lit (heaven forfend!), classroom desks empty – again. She is willing to support you, but only if you can give a clear account of why it is necessary and how it promotes effective learning.

• The parents’ room – this week allocated to OFSTED. You bravely invited OFSTED into yesterday’s drama session on the mechanicals’ village life (from Midsummer Night’s Dream). It was a lively session…but they would like to discuss the impact on learning before deciding on a grade for your teaching.

The clinchers – which we propose you consider elaborating yourself in order to develop your own account of why drama is important to your classroom – have the headings: Engagement and motivation, Admitting the whole child, Social health, and Improving outcomes. The voice is yours!

1. Why drama is necessary

I want the children to consider a story from contrasting perspectives.

We have built Macbeth’s castle. We have walked its dank corridors. We have heard of the king’s murder and felt the presence of walking, bloody ghosts. We have trained as soldiers in the courtyard, and woven magic around fires as heathen witches. Now we will write as one of the soldiers seeing the trees of Burnham Wood approach; we will write as witches flying invisibly over the turrets, scoffing at the chaos they have brought; we will write as Macbeth’s forgotten child Lullach, seeing the world crumble around him as the English army approach.

The drama has offered us the possibility of experiencing the single literary event from a multitude of perspectives. We are ready to write. Each child’s experience has been shared within the group, but is also unique.

2. Admitting the whole child

“All too often, our classrooms are simply ‘rational’ places; we honour the ability to recall, process, compute, spell, follow patterns, etc. These are valuable things – and good drama is also urgently rational – but they represent only a small part of the totality of what it is to be human. I want to allow children to bring into the classroom the neglected aspects of themselves as human creatures. When we exclude the possibility of our children as physical, emotional, imaginative, social beings, we not only impoverish the possibilities of their responses and unnecessarily exclude children whose strengths are elsewhere, we also limit their capacity to learn. Drama offers the possibility of being able to address the multiplicity of aspects that are all part of our human make-up. Drama makes our schools more human.”

Immortal spirits are drawn to the mortal human child. Titania, Queen of the fairies, has stolen a beautiful Indian child. King Oberon is desperate to have the child for his own, and an argument erupts that is so fierce it changes the weather.

Where is the stolen child? S/he is kept in a high hollow of a tree, guarded by a kindly fairy. The fairy promises to deliver a single letter to the child’s home. What note will the child write?

In this tender moment of drama, we acknowledge the schoolchild’s emotional life and invite an emotionally specific response: the schoolchild is offered the chance to explore, through analogous experience, their own fears of loss, abandonment, separation, perhaps drawing on experience of real estrangements, real ‘child-stealing’ incidents they may know of. The situation is at arm’s length; the response is real. The writing task is charged, meaningful and motivated by the fiction.

3. Social health

Verona. Two houses, alike in dignity, are at war. Can we remember where the conflict began? Is it just something that has always been? Is there a way through it?

The families are drawn together through the shared grief of losing their youngest children – Romeo and Juliet.

Social learning: if conflicts go unchecked, they tend to escalate towards consequences that are far beyond the ‘wrong’ that began the conflict.

4. Improving outcomes

“The medium of drama is language – sometimes it is the language of space or movement… but primarily it is the spoken word. The drama I share with my children gently forces them to use language in new ways, and gives them opportunities to expandtheir vocabulary; to deepen their responses; and to explore variant uses of language and the language of variant times, characters andplaces. When the situation has given them experience of the rich use of language, they are much more likely to transfer this new experience onto the page in more elaborate, accomplished and mature forms of expression.”

We ‘live through’ Caliban’s capture by Prospero, the banishment of his mother and his enslavement to his new master. We speak with his spitting, visceral voice, mixed with the Shakespearean idiom. We stand in his shoes, seeing the mighty Prospero lord it over the kingdom that he knows should be his.

We speak failed spells, express our anger, plot our revenges, devise our tortures, and dream of life when we regain our crown.

How do we achieve all this without expanded, elaborate, glorious, character-specific and moment-specific language? We can’t – we create it. The children will write ‘in-role’ and ‘for-role’.

We hope this brief tour of some ideas in support of the drama approach will ignite your interest and commitment. As your experience develops through these schemes, be alert to the impact of your work together. Gather your own ideas, your own examples and your own narratives. Be reflective and take your own thoughts seriously. Become an advocate; an expert. Keep a journal. Blog! Drama is a movement that has developed quietly through an accumulation of rich experience in the privacy of classrooms. It needs to be experienced, and that experience then needs to be shared in whatever forms we can muster.

About the author

John Doona is the creator and director of the Children’s Shakespeare Festival. He is a qualified AST with a wide experience of secondary and primary drama practice. His new book, A Practical Guide to Shakespeare for the Primary School is published by Routledge (£29.99, ISBN 978-0415610421).

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Immerse your class in murder, mayhem, monsters and magic with our exciting Shakespeare pack for years 5 and 6. Comprising five units on Macbeth and five on The Tempest , the pack is crammed with a range of teaching ideas and activities to introduce your upper KS2 classes to the Bard and bring two of his most famous plays to life.

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Session 1: Macbeth – Witches (pages 9-17)

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Session 7: The Tempest – Full fathom five (pages 80-89)

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This resource encourages children in Years 5 and 6 to investigate two of Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets – looking at themes and structure – before composing their own poems.

In Key Stage 2, pupils should study the work of William Shakespeare and explore a variety of different poems . He was a master wordsmith and his plays contain language that we still use today. These activities explore his sonnets, reading two examples and exploring their themes.

Pupils will learn how sonnets are structured and have the opportunity to write their own.

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Known as the “Motor City of Russia.”

Elektrostal, a city located in the Moscow Oblast region of Russia, earned the nickname “Motor City” due to its significant involvement in the automotive industry.

Home to the Elektrostal Metallurgical Plant.

Elektrostal is renowned for its metallurgical plant, which has been producing high-quality steel and alloys since its establishment in 1916.

Boasts a rich industrial heritage.

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Founded in 1916.

The city of Elektrostal was founded in 1916 as a result of the construction of the Elektrostal Metallurgical Plant.

Located approximately 50 kilometers east of Moscow.

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Known for its vibrant cultural scene.

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Elektrostal actively engages in international partnerships, cultural exchanges, and diplomatic collaborations to foster global connections.

Surrounded by beautiful nature reserves.

Nearby nature reserves, such as the Barybino Forest and Luchinskoye Lake, offer opportunities for nature enthusiasts to explore and appreciate the region’s biodiversity.

Commemorates historical events.

The city pays tribute to significant historical events through memorials, monuments, and exhibitions, ensuring the preservation of collective memory.

Promotes sports and youth development.

Elektrostal invests in sports infrastructure and programs to encourage youth participation, health, and physical fitness.

Hosts annual cultural and artistic festivals.

Throughout the year, Elektrostal celebrates its cultural diversity through festivals dedicated to music, dance, art, and theater.

Provides a picturesque landscape for photography enthusiasts.

The city’s scenic beauty, architectural landmarks, and natural surroundings make it a paradise for photographers.

Connects to Moscow via a direct train line.

The convenient train connection between Elektrostal and Moscow makes commuting between the two cities effortless.

A city with a bright future.

Elektrostal continues to grow and develop, aiming to become a model city in terms of infrastructure, sustainability, and quality of life for its residents.

In conclusion, Elektrostal is a fascinating city with a rich history and a vibrant present. From its origins as a center of steel production to its modern-day status as a hub for education and industry, Elektrostal has plenty to offer both residents and visitors. With its beautiful parks, cultural attractions, and proximity to Moscow, there is no shortage of things to see and do in this dynamic city. Whether you’re interested in exploring its historical landmarks, enjoying outdoor activities, or immersing yourself in the local culture, Elektrostal has something for everyone. So, next time you find yourself in the Moscow region, don’t miss the opportunity to discover the hidden gems of Elektrostal.

Q: What is the population of Elektrostal?

A: As of the latest data, the population of Elektrostal is approximately XXXX.

Q: How far is Elektrostal from Moscow?

A: Elektrostal is located approximately XX kilometers away from Moscow.

Q: Are there any famous landmarks in Elektrostal?

A: Yes, Elektrostal is home to several notable landmarks, including XXXX and XXXX.

Q: What industries are prominent in Elektrostal?

A: Elektrostal is known for its steel production industry and is also a center for engineering and manufacturing.

Q: Are there any universities or educational institutions in Elektrostal?

A: Yes, Elektrostal is home to XXXX University and several other educational institutions.

Q: What are some popular outdoor activities in Elektrostal?

A: Elektrostal offers several outdoor activities, such as hiking, cycling, and picnicking in its beautiful parks.

Q: Is Elektrostal well-connected in terms of transportation?

A: Yes, Elektrostal has good transportation links, including trains and buses, making it easily accessible from nearby cities.

Q: Are there any annual events or festivals in Elektrostal?

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Shakespeare Teaching Resources

BBC Teach > Educational Calendar

November 2023 marked 400 years since arguably the greatest work of English literature was created, the ‘First Folio’, published seven years after the death of William Shakespeare.

To celebrate, we published a new animated Romeo and Juliet resource (suitable for use with both upper primary and lower secondary pupils), as well as bringing all of our teaching resources into the below collection, organised by phase.

When is Shakespeare Week 2024?

Shakespeare Week is celebrated during the spring term, 18-24 March 2024 , while Shakespeare Day takes place on 23 April each year, considered by many to be the anniversary of both Shakespeare's birth and death.

Primary resources

Romeo and Juliet

A new resource for the 2023/24 academic year, this adaptation of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is in nine short video animations. Comprehensive teacher notes are available and each video comes with a transcript so that pupils can read along, a downloadable sheet offering a visual reminder of the characters (their names and family groupings), and a sequencing activity to help pupils recall the order of events in the play.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Shakespeare's play of love, magic and mayhem is adapted across eight short video episodes. Comprehensive teacher notes are available (including suggestions for home learning), and each video comes with an episode transcript, a 'meet the characters' gallery and a sequencing activity.

Shakespeare's play of murder and witchcraft is told in eight video clips. Comprehensive teacher notes are available, with literacy activity ideas for each episode, as well as a 'meet the characters' slideshow and a downloadable transcript.

The Tempest

The Tempest is told over the course of eight short animated video clips. These classroom animations are accompanied by a resource pack with guidance, activity suggestions and worksheets - many suitable for study at home as well as at school.

Shakespeare in Shorts

Short retellings of six of William Shakespeare's most well-known plays, set to modern music.

i.am.Will Shakespeare

Short documentary films for primary schools in which Newsround's Ricky and Leah Boleto learn about Shakespeare's life, world, theatre and most famous plays.

KS2 Music: The Tempest

To complement the above story adaptation, we've put together a music resource for KS2 pupils. Whatever your musical experience, these resources can help you and your pupils enjoy learning music - and then put on a stunning musical performance based on Shakespeare’s play!

A Midsummer Night's Dream - A Musical for Schools

Our musical for schools has been adapted from Shakespeare's play and makes an ideal musical performance lasting about one hour. The play has eight catchy songs to learn, a script which is full of fun and mischief, and opportunities to include performers from many year groups with parts that are both big...and small.

KS2 Music: Macbeth

Watch again: Shakespeare Week - Live Lesson

In 2022 we marked Shakespeare Week with this Live Lesson for 7-11 year-olds. CBBC's Rhys Stephenson looked back at Shakespeare’s life during Tudor times, the impact this had on his writing and the legacy he left behind. The full programme, along with activity sheets and teacher guide, is available for your classroom.

Watch again: Shakespeare: Unplugged - Live Lesson

This Live Lesson for 9-11 year-olds from 2016, hosted by Katie Thistleton and Karim Zeroual, focused on Shakespeare's language and characters with iconic scenes from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth and Henry V acted out by the Royal Shakespeare Company. The full programme, lesson guide and activity sheets are all available to access.

Shakespeare Retold

A series of ten stories written by well-known children’s authors including Pamela Butchart and Frank Cottrell-Boyce. Each story is inspired by or based on a play by William Shakespeare.

Secondary resources

Shakespeare Unlocked - Macbeth

Key scenes from Macbeth are explored through performance (by actors and directors at the Royal Shakespeare Company), helping to unlock the meaning of the language and the development of character for students.

Shakespeare Unlocked - Julius Caesar

Key scenes from Julius Caesar are explored through performance (by actors and directors at the Royal Shakespeare Company), helping to unlock the meaning of the language and the development of character for students.

Shakespeare Unlocked - Romeo and Juliet

Key scenes from Romeo and Juliet are explored through performance (by actors and directors at the Royal Shakespeare Company), helping to unlock the meaning of the language and the development of character for students.

Shakespeare Unlocked - A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Key scenes from A Midsummer Night's Dream are explored through performance (by actors and directors at the Royal Shakespeare Company), helping to unlock the meaning of the language and the development of character for students.

Shakespeare Songs

Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, and Romeo and Juliet - three of Shakespeare's most famous plays - are brought to life in short classroom videos combining music with original quotations.

Shakespeare Themes

These short classroom videos explore some of the themes that span Shakespeare's plays (for example, love, power, and the supernatural), improving students' understanding of his most popular works and the society in which they were written.

Watch again: Shakespeare: Text Detectives - Live Lesson

This Live Lesson for 11-13 year-olds was streamed live for schools in 2016. Students are invited to delve into Shakespeare's texts and explore stage directions, relationships between characters, and his use of verse and prose. Worksheets and a lesson guide for teachers are still available, alongside the original programme.

Shakespeare's life, work and legacy

A collection of interactive articles about the life, work and legacy of William Shakespeare.

BBC Shakespeare Archive

This online archive provides schools, colleges and universities across the UK with access to hundreds of BBC television and radio broadcasts of Shakespeare’s plays, sonnets and documentaries about Shakespeare.

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Shakespeare Week 2024 primary resources and worksheets
Shakespeare Week - Best primary resources and worksheets for 2024. Shakespeare Week 2024 takes place between 18th-24th March, so check out these great William Shakespeare activities, ideas and lessons for primary schools…. DOWNLOAD A FREE RESOURCE! KS2 Shakespeare Week activities - Improve wellbeing by exploring identity.
William Shakespeare KS2
Designed to help young learners understand the meaning of the plays, Shakespeare's works like 'Hamlet' and 'Twelfth Night' won't be Greek to them. Shakespeare activities for KS2, like these Macbeth Story Sequencing Cards, help your pupils remember what happens in the plays.
Shakespeare's plays in performance
Shakespeare wrote tragedies, like Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet, and also comedies, like The Tempest and Twelfth Night. Find out more with Bitesize. For students between the ages of 11 and 14.
Shakespeare KS2
Shakespeare insults KS2. Now, no one wants to encourage anyone to be mean. But you have to admit, Shakespeare really did relish a good insult. Sometimes vicious, sometimes weird, they were invariably interesting and very often pretty funny. Your class will love them!
Who was William Shakespeare?
Video summary. Newsround presenters Leah and Ricky Boleto visit Shakespeare's birth place Stratford-upon-Avon and go to London to see scenes from his plays at Shakespeare's Globe. We see extracts ...
Tales From Shakespeare Resources
Discover writing activities and ways into teaching literacy, inspired by Michael Morpurgo's Tales from Shakespeare. Created in collaboration with Jan Anderson, an RSC Associate School teacher from Springhead Primary School, these resource packs offer brilliant ways into teaching writing outcomes as part of your study of Shakespeare at KS1-3.
Shakespeare's life and inspirations
Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564 and married Anne Hathaway in 1582 - Find out more with Bitesize. For students between the ages of 11 and 14.
Imagine Shakespeare Resource Pack
If you're teaching Shakespeare to KS2 pupils, then you'll certainly find our Imagine Shakespeare KS2 Resource Pack useful. This brilliant pack contains a week's worth of Imagine exploration sheets, a topic web and an additional photo pack that you can use to stimulate discussions on Shakespeare with your class! Our brilliant exploration sheets each come packed with cross-curricular ...
Shakespeare activities for KS2
His new book, A Practical Guide to Shakespeare for the Primary School is published by Routledge (£29.99, ISBN 978-0415610421). Visit Teach Primary Magazine for free lesson plans, news, events, product reviews and KS1 and KS2 learning resources covering CPD, NQTs, PSHE, SEN, Maths, Science, Literacy and much more.
Introducing Shakespeare
Teaching pack. Immerse your class in murder, mayhem, monsters and magic with our exciting Shakespeare pack for years 5 and 6. Comprising five units on Macbeth and five on The Tempest, the pack is crammed with a range of teaching ideas and activities to introduce your upper KS2 classes to the Bard and bring two of his most famous plays to life.
Shakespeare's Birthplace (KS2 Questions)
Key Stage 2 (ages 7-11) Topic. Historical context. Resource type. Museum activity. Be a detective! Find out what life would have been like for the people who lived in Shakespeare's Birthplace. Download resource (590.6 KB) Explore workshops & courses.
Shakespeare Schools Foundation
History of Shakespeare's Theatre (KS2) £78.00. In this unique and exciting scheme of work, your students will travel back in time for a guided tour through Shakespeare's theatre. Rich with historical evidence, this scheme of work will encourage your pupils to delve deep and answer genuine historical questions. The scheme includes numerous ...
Ultimate Shakespeare Toolkit
This toolkit of KS2 Shakespeare resources features information all about William Shakespeare's life and some of his most famous plays and works. You can use these resources both in your classroom and at home to teach your children about the most famous and influential playwright to date. From Shakespeare PowerPoints and resource packs to word ...
Shakespeare Classroom Starters & Teaching Ideas
Hooray For Mr William Shakespeare Activity Book - Marcia Williams. The Comedy, History and Tragedy of William Shakespeare - Anna Claybourne. The Shakespeare Stories (set) - Andrew Matthews. With Twinkl Imagine's inspirational classroom starters think, solve, respond, discuss and reimagine a range of fun topics including Shakespeare.
Shakespeare KS2 Poems (Year 5 and Year 6): Sonnets
This resource encourages children in Years 5 and 6 to investigate two of Shakespeare's most famous sonnets - looking at themes and structure - before composing their own poems. In Key Stage 2, pupils should study the work of William Shakespeare and explore a variety of different poems. He was a master wordsmith and his plays contain language that we still use today. These activities ...
Macbeth home 2022
Here you'll find everything you need to teach a term's work around Macbeth. There are bespoke plans for Literacy, Maths, Science, Art, Shakespeare and MFL + quizzes and games. Click on each act and you will find a whole week's worth of activities. The literacy, maths, and french resources are designed to correspond to each act of the play, so ...
Who was William Shakespeare?
William Shakespeare's life. William Shakespeare was born in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564. His father John had a successful job as a glove maker. Historic events happened during his life ...
40 Facts About Elektrostal
40 Facts About Elektrostal. Elektrostal is a vibrant city located in the Moscow Oblast region of Russia. With a rich history, stunning architecture, and a thriving community, Elektrostal is a city that has much to offer. Whether you are a history buff, nature enthusiast, or simply curious about different cultures, Elektrostal is sure to ...
Data Collection in the Moscow Metro
Speculative forms of data collection and use in subway stations. Data collection is becoming part of everyday life for Muscovites and visitors who use the Metro. Each person, train and station holds insight into solving urban problems. However, it is essential to remember that people decide how to apply data. These decisions must be transparent ...
Shakespeare's New Place (KS2 Questions)
Key Stage 2 (ages 7-11) Topic. Historical context. Resource type. Museum activity. Be a detective! Find out what life would have been like for the people who lived at Shakespeare's New Place. Download resource (558.3 KB) Explore workshops & courses.
Moscow
Moscow, city, capital of Russia, located in the far western part of the country.Since it was first mentioned in the chronicles of 1147, Moscow has played a vital role in Russian history. It became the capital of Muscovy (the Grand Principality of Moscow) in the late 13th century; hence, the people of Moscow are known as Muscovites.Today Moscow is not only the political centre of Russia but ...
Shakespeare Week 2024 Teaching Resources
Shakespeare Week is celebrated during the spring term, 18-24 March 2024, ... To complement the above story adaptation, we've put together a music resource for KS2 pupils. Whatever your musical ...
Moscow metro bombing
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