Mrs Woodhouse (Year 6 Teacher)

Shakespeare Week began with a welcome message from children’s author, illustrator and patron of Shakespeare Week Marcia Williams. The week’s activities were all centred around the quote, This above all, to thine own self be true. Teen Vlogger and CBBC presenter Nikki Lilly spoke about why she thinks that being true to yourself is one of the most important things for being truly happy.

Each day the students watched live broadcasts with wide ranging topics such as story time with poet Ian McMillan, Horrible Histories with artist Martin Brown, Tudor Baking with Bake Off’s David Atherton, Lego Shakespeare and instructions on how to make a self-portrait with illustrator Korky Paul. 

The students took part in a range of activities such as Shakespearean themed meditations, investigations into forgotten language, creating comic strips, shape poems, sketching scenes from plays, making fairy homes using items found outside in the garden and even making a Lego William Shakespeare! Classes held debates over Romeo and Juliet and parental responsibility and others filmed their own ‘chat shows’ where they discussed the story of Twelfth Night and attempted to untangle the love triangle and complications arising from unrequited love.

The students were all told about this year’s competition which invites them to respond creatively to the week’s central quote. Entries need to be in by Wednesday 31st March and instructions on how to enter are HERE.