Shakespeare in a Day

On Friday 18th March, we were dressed in our sporting clothes for Sport Relief, but we also learned, rehearsed and performed our own version of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (all in one day). Once again we had a visit from West End in Schools. Class-by-class, children learned some acting skills, more about the play, lines and how to deliver them. The day culminated in a performance by all of Year Five, to all of Year Five. 

Below are what Izzy and Joely thought of the day:

This morning Year Five went to a Shakespeare workshop, about the twelve night, in the hall. We were getting to know the story and trying to understand it better.
It was fun and we understood the story a lot better, it was fun and we did some drama. First we met Ellanor (a professional actress) and she told us a short version of the story and showed us some actions.
Next, she told us to walk around the room and when she called out one of the characters we did an action for the person. It was good fun and we all knew the characters and their actions.
After that, we sat down and she picked some people to be Malvolio and Viola-Cesario. The nine people that were picked lined up in diagonal lines and read out their words that were on the board. Next, was a few people who were some of the other characters and they did their lines. After that, it was my turn and I was Sir Toby Belch, it was hard to say them loudly but we did it.
My favorite part was doing the actions for the characters because we got to do some partner work.

This morning Year Five went into the hall to have a Shakespeare workshop. We were talking about the Twelfth Night and taking part in a play. The lady that was teaching us was really nice. She made sure that we were happy with our lines. We did exercises before we started and it was really fun because she made us be really dramatic. The exercises were where she would shout out characters and we would stop and do the actions. Then we got into groups and started acting.