To mark the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, Queen’s Lower School pupils celebrated the life and works of The Bard.
Inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream, reception pupils planned a wedding and pretended to be mischievous little fairies, creating their own rhyming spells.
They made wands and all the fairies gathered together to dance and make music outdoors.
The girls in Year 1 wrote their own versions of the play describing magical potions and the ingredients they would need.
Year 2 explored the artwork of Gustav Klimt, designing jewelled trees to create a magical forest.
They also learnt about the particular characters of the play and wrote detailed character profiles.
Junior pupils in Year 3 researched the sprite Ariel, Caliban and Prospero through their exploration of The Tempest and enjoyed designing their own islands and making bird masks.
Year 4 enjoyed creating puppets of the main characters of their play, Twelfth Night and Year 5 transformed themselves into witches and stirred up plenty of toil and trouble for Macbeth.
They also created storyboards and terrifying masks.
In Year 6 the girls explored Romeo and Juliet through the themes of feud, love and death; they created home-made books and built a giant model of Shakespeare’s Globe, complete with audience, stage and actors.
Head of the lower school Rachel Cookson said: “The Shakespeare theme week has been a huge success and all the classes have learned a great deal through drama and creativity using Shakespeare’s wonderful plays as their focal point. It has been a delight to watch the girls work with imagination and independence.”
William Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616 in Stratford-upon-Avon.
