Trips & Workshops
Shakespeare’s birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon
We took a trip to the birthplace of the Bard in Stratford-upon-Avon to find out more about his formative years as the son of a glovemaker.
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English | History | Shakespeare | Trips | UK Trips - rest of UK
Macbeth Top Trumps (Macbeth Block 8)
Using the worksheets in this Twinkl pack, we created our own set of top trump cards. We chose which characters we were going to do and what categories we’d rate them on. This activity created a lot of discussion and was an excellent way of recapping the story and characters. Whilst I don’t agree with ... Read more
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Magic spells (Macbeth Block 6)
We had a go at writing our own witches’ spells. Agatha is not the tidiest person in the house, so she opted for a spell to tidy your bedroom. It doesn’t appear to have worked though….
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English | Macbeth | Poetry | Shakespeare
Rich bread poor bread (Macbeth Block 5)
Following the recipes on Twinkl (see links in planning notes) we made some bread fit for a royal banquet and bread for the peasants who wouldn’t have been invited. The latter resembled concrete more than bread but it tasted sort of OK when dipped in tasty soup. As you can see from the picture below, ... Read more
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Duncan is Dead (Macbeth Block 4)
After writing a newspaper report on the death of Duncan, we then had a go at being TV news reporters. They wrote out scripts to help them as they didn’t think they’d remember what to say otherwise. They had such a giggle doing this; there was definitely more than one take…
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Macbeth Puppets (Macbeth Block 3)
We decided to give the witches in Macbeth a backstory so each girl wrote a poem about one of the three witches. They then created a wooden spoon puppet each. Here is the video we filmed of them reciting their poems and then Act 1 Scene 1 of Macbeth. As you can hear, it was ... Read more
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Macbeth in post-it-notes (Macbeth Block 2)
Today we read through Macbeth for the first time. We used the Matthews/Ross abridged version which is very KS2 level friendly. The girls made a Post It note for each character and we worked out how all the characters were connected. As we went through the scenes in the book, we moved the characters on ... Read more
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Macbeth in the Park
On Tuesday evening, we went to see an all female production of Macbeth by The Handlebards. We went with our friend, Eva, as we are going to learn about the play together. It was really funny to watch and there were lots of different characters. Quite a bit of it was in Shakespearean English, with ... Read more
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Making potions and retro t-shirts!
This was a super successful session on acids and alkali which created a lot of mess but which kept the girls engaged for a whole morning. We made some red cabbage indicator so we could see what liquids were acid or alkali according to what colour the indicator went. We guessed first and then found ... Read more
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