Shakespeare Week

From Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

Resource type: Event

Price band: Free

Key stage: KS1, KS2

Region(s): All of UK

Shakespeare Week is a week-long celebration of Shakespeare’s life and work for primary schools. Shakespeare Week 2024 runs from 18th – 24th March.

The Shakespeare Week website provides access to a wide range of events, activities and cross-curricular resources to help teachers bring Shakespeare to life during Shakespeare Week, or at any time in the year. These include:

  • A programme of live online events plus access to videos from previous years. This year, Michael Rosen will lead a series of workshops exploring Shakespeare’s language.
  • An annual Shakespeare Week Competition. For 2024, young people are invited to create a journal or diary entry from the point of view of a member of Shakespeare’s family. Supporting resources are available and the deadline for entries is 10th May 2024.
  • Shakespeare-themed resources covering all aspects of the primary curriculum.
  • Short CPD videos for teachers.
  • A directory of partner organisations that offer in-school workshops and events.

Cost: Access to all the online resources is free with registration. Events and workshops with partner organisations may incur a fee.

About the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust: The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is an independent charity that looks after the five historic Shakespeare family homes and the world’s largest Shakespeare-related library and museum. The Shakespeare Trust also runs award-winning educational programmes, of which Shakespeare Week is one.  Since its launch in 2014, over 9 million children have taken part in Shakespeare Week.

Further resources:

  • Explore the range of resources available to support teachers and pupils from the Royal Shakespeare Company, including a Live Lesson on 14th March exploring the world of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and access to recordings of previous Live Lessons.
  • Explore the collection of Shakespeare Week teaching resources available from BBC Teach.
  • The Primary Shakespeare Company offers free online, cross-curricular programmes of learning for five of Shakespeare’s plays – The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Twelfth Night and Julius Caesar.
  • Shakespeare’s Globe provides a host of resources to support the teaching of Shakespeare in secondary schools. Find videos and activities to introduce Shakespeare to primary-aged students in the Playground.

Visit the resource

shakespeareweek.org.uk

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