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\"\"We were greeted by an enthusiastic and energetic group of Year\u00a05 pupils\u00a0at Ridge Community Primary. Focusing on A Midsummer Night’s Dream<\/em>, the pupils worked well on close textual analysis before coming into their own in the practical activities.<\/p>\n

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Beginning with voice work in walking through\u00a0a\u00a0soliloquy pupils quickly grasped the changes of direction in a character’s train of thought\u00a0and felt comfortable reading it aloud as a group.<\/div>\n

\"\"Splitting into smaller groups, the pupils set about\u00a0creating a performance to perform back to the rest of the class. The\u00a0pupils thrived and really came into their own with creative and imaginative interpretations of the text. They were a pleasure to work with.<\/p>\n

\"\"A further workshop with Year 6 pupils on Romeo and Juliet <\/em>concentrated on the fight scene between Mercutio, Romeo and Tybalt. Using school dinner knives and slow-motion action,\u00a0the pupils got\u00a0a tangible sense of the powerful, intrinsic\u00a0bonds between love and hate in the play.<\/p>\n

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We were greeted by an enthusiastic and energetic group of Year\u00a05 pupils\u00a0at Ridge Community Primary. Focusing on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the pupils worked well on close textual analysis before coming into their own in the practical activities. \u00a0 Beginning … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"parent":339,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-579","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/579\/revisions\/687"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}