A Shakespeare-themed day

Year 7 students in the Art workshop draw characters from A Midsummer Night's Dream.

A Shakespeare-themed day

Students use lines from the text to draw the characters.

A Shakespeare-themed day

The folds of Oberon's cape reveal the lines 'I know a bank where the wild thyme grows...'

A Shakespeare-themed day

The final product is as impressive from a distance as it is up close.

A Shakespeare-themed day

In the science workshop, students use quills and ink to record their notes just as Shakespeare would have done.

A Shakespeare-themed day

Sawdust on the floors, slate and chalk on the desks, and teachers in period dress: this is Biology Elizabethan-style!

A Shakespeare-themed day

Purbrook Park School in Hampshire ran a Shakespeare-themed Everybody Writes Day for the whole of year 7.

Students in design and technology wrote step-by-step guides to making a model of an Elizabethan house while those in History used quills and parchment to record specialist vocabulary relating to castles. In Art, characters from A Midsummer Night’s Dream were drawn with lines from the text itself. Students in the science workshops enjoyed a gory autopsy Elizabethan-style, with sawdust underfoot, they used chalk and slate to draw up a glossary of anatomy.