Shakespeare Outreach for KS2

Can’t bring your class to us? We can bring our workshops to you! We offer outreach workshops for Key Stage 2 to enhance your pupils’ history or literacy studies through a mix of hands-on, interactive learning activities to spark their creativity.

Outreach sessions are available to schools within a 60 minute travel radius of Stratford-upon-Avon.

Drama Outreach - All the World's a Stage [Half Day]

This energetic and interactive storytelling workshop is the perfect introduction to Shakespeare's works, life and times.

Through a mix of rhymes, games, replica artefacts and archival documents, children will learn about Shakespeare's journey from childhood in Stratford-upon-Avon to becoming a successful playwright in London, using his Seven Ages of Man speech from As You Like It as a backdrop.

An engaging re-telling with costumes and props of either The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth or Twelfth Night designed to fire children's imaginations will serve as the perfect finale to the workshop.

Shakespeare Out and About [Full or Half Day]

This hands-on, history based workshop encourages children to learn about the world in which Shakespeare lived and how it shaped his life and influenced his writing.

Activities include elements from the following:

• writing with quills using the Tudor alphabet and creating parchment tags
• discovering how quills, ink and parchment were made
• learning about the plague in Shakespeare’s time and investigating Tudor remedies including making a lavender bag
• seeing a replica of Shakespeare’s Will and finding out what he left to his family and friends
• participating in Tudor games and Tudor-dancing

One class per half day (2 hour session) or two classes across a whole day.

For planning and prices please email  [email protected].