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