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Posted: Friday 29 May 2009

Brush up your Shakespeare!

P7 Shakespeare DayPrimary 7 pupils (and their class teachers) donned Elizabethan garb and entered the parallel world of Shakespearean England, relocated for the day to the Fotheringay Centre on the Beaton Road site for the second Hutchesons' Shakespeare Festival.  There they benefited from the expertise of secondary English, Drama, Art and Music specialists who had entered fully into the spirit of the day through language, dance, music, art, costume and performance as well as taking the opportunity themselves to dress up.  

P7 Shakespeare DayFollowing a morning of intensive workshops focusing on key scenes from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', pupils had the opportunity to perform Elizabethan dances, to play Elizabethan Music and to hurl Elizabethan insults at each other as well as acting out scenes from the play itself.   

P7 Shakespeare DayThere was a practical curricular purpose to the challenge and fun, says Colin Bagnall, Depute Rector (Curriculum), as Shakespeare has formed a part of P7 studies this year in preparation for the S1 course at Beaton Road which features A Midsummer Night's Dream. Pupils and teachers from the Primary and several departments in the Secondary School got to know each other a little better and all parties enjoyed another opportunity to sing along to the now traditional chorus of 'Brush up on your Shakespeare'!

Thanks are due to Mrs Breckenridge (Art), Mrs Alderson, Miss Meek and Ms Sobolewska (Drama), Ms Cowen (English) and to Mr Walton and Mr Scott (Music Department), to Claire Ferguson, our costumier, and to P7 teacher Mrs Ritchie, who was an honorary member of the English Department for the day.

 

 

Tags: Art & Design, Drama, English, Music, Primary

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