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Four Much Ado Home Ed. Workshops

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A series of four workshops for home educated children age 5 - 14 years old exploring Shakespeare's play, Much Ado About Nothing running at Coombe Abbey on Mondays afternoons 1-3pm on June 2nd, 9th, 16th and 30th.


Perfect for those who haven't 'done' any Shakespeare and those who have, these workshops explore the play through games and fun activities (no reading or writing required).


Please note the workshops are all outside (I'll send details of where to meet when you book) so please wrap up warm or bring sunhats and water. If it starts to rain we'll shelter under the trees, but I'll only cancel if the weather is truly awful.


Each session with include:

  • a run-about True or False game introducing Shakespeare, his world and his plays
  • an simple, funny activity to learn a short line from the play
  • an active game to learn the characters and their roles in the play
  • a 'Whoosh' where we walk through the play and act it out (with simple dressing up!)
  • a different creative activity each session including making Top Trump cards and scrap modelling


It is a workshop for children and their parents as I've found this really works well, both in terms of helping the children engage and parents being able to add things outside of sessions if they choose to. Also, I'm limiting numbers to 15 children.


I keep it active and fun, but I'm not going to make your children join in anything they don't want to - I find being outside gives us the space for those who aren't sure or aren't keen so watch and join in when they can without the others feeling watched. It also gives us space to run off a bit of steam if we need to ;-)


If you want to know which boxes you can tick, this workshop covers a combination of English literature, drama and history with a bit of physical exercise and art. It won't involve any writing (unless you want to) and children will have opportunities to 'act' different parts in the play.


All workshops are run by me, Victoria Beech. I am experienced at doing workshops with children (I've been doing work like this for over 30 years!) and I've run a mixed-age Shakespeare group for six years. I have valid documents for working with children for my work at Birmingham Children's Hospital, but in these workshops your children are your responsibility.


If you have under 5s, please make sure you can look after them as well as joining in and helping your other children when necessary.


If you're booking more than one child, there's a discount to make it more affordable.

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