Blue Spark Foundation

BlueSpark provided funding for Year 5 and Year 6 children from Montem Primary School, Islington, London to visit the Globe Theatre for a dramatic workshop based around Shakespeare’s play “Macbeth”. The workshop explored the language of the play, aiding the children’s understanding of the text through dramatic games. The children worked together to put on their own dramatic response to the play. The school’s Assistant Head Teacher told BlueSpark that “being able to take the children to see such an iconic venue was really memorable and inspiring for them. They demonstrated confidence in their performance and the workshop really helped them to unpick the character and the language of the play. The writing they subsequently produced was used as one of their assessment pieces and the children secured fantastic end of year writing outcomes. We also saw significant impact in their confidence to perform in their own year-end musical performance of Oliver.”