Every year in the summer term the whole school, from Reception to Year 6, take part in a Shakespeare project.
During this term, every class’s English and History curriculum is based on related themes from the chosen play. Classes work together to produce part of the play or, for older children, the whole play. This is then shared with the rest of the school and the wider community in a ‘Performance Week.’ Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 work together and re-tell a section of the play through dance, song and rhyming couplets; Year 3 and Year 4 work together to re-tell another part of the play, also through song, dance and some verse; Year 6 perform an adaptation of the entire play, including original dialogue, with Year 5 supporting them in the choreography.
We work in close partnership with the Primary Shakespeare Company for this yearly whole school project, with Year 6 also taking part in their annual primary schools festival. For more information visit the Primary Shakespeare Company website.
HTSS Shakespeare plays:
- Summer 2025: To be revealed!…
- Summer 2024: Julius Caesar
- Summer 2023: Twelfth Night
- Summer 2022: Macbeth
- Summer 2021: Romeo & Juliet
- Spring 2019: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Spring 2018: The Winter’s Tale
- Spring 2017: Julius Caesar
- Spring 2016: Macbeth
- Spring 2015: Hamlet
- Spring 2014: Romeo and Juliet
We are delighted to have a new partner onboard, LabTech. Through their Community Grants Programme LabTech support a wide range of local initiatives to improve the local neighbourhood and enhance local residents’ quality of life. LabTech’s funding helped to financially support the 2024 Shakespeare Project ‘Julius Caesar’. LabTech are a local organisation in the heart of Camden, find out more about LabTech by clicking the link below. LabTech -LabTech (labsgroup.com)
