Shakespeare Week
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 2023 runs from 20th – 26th 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 for each day of Shakespeare Week.
- Online retellings of some of Shakespeare’s plays by established storytellers.
- Shortened versions of Shakespeare’s plays that can be used in Assemblies.
- Illustration masterclasses and craft activities with top children’s illustrators.
- Literacy activities and resources to explore Shakespeare’s language.
- Competitions that encourage pupils’ creative response to Shakespeare.
- Shakespeare-themed resources covering all aspects of the curriculum.
- Shakespeare events and in-school workshops with partner organisations.
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:
- The Primary Shakespeare Company offers free online, cross-curricular programmes of learning for three of Shakespeare’s plays – The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth.
- 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.
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