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.
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- Guide to running a themed writing Day
- Case study
- Teaching Sequence: Science
- Teaching sequence: History
- Teaching sequence: Design & Technology
Primary
Everybody Writes Days
- Festival of Light Writing Project
- Reporting from the dinosaur dig
- Writing about local history
- Active writing day
- Reporting on an alien landing
Secondary
Everybody Writes Days
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Macaulay CE Primary School’s Everybody Writes Day - Pupils and parents celebrate writing for one special day

