Bell Shakespeare Learning 2016 Primary

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PROFESSIONAL LEARNING

STARTING SHAKESPEARE

Playing with Shakespeare

A unique iPad app from Deeper Richer and Bell Shakespeare

SYDNEY, MELBOURNE, CANBERRA Spend a day with Bell Shakespeare as a student, and do what students do best: play.

Using a cross-curricular approach, we’ll guide you through playful and powerful strategies to engage young learners, using a range of Shakespeare’s classic plays. You’ll be armed with Bell Shakespeare’s proven tips and tricks to suit all types of learners, as well as advice on unit planning and making Shakespeare key to school curriculum and culture.

Most importantly, you’ll have fun with this very different day of Professional Learning.

• 10am – 4pm • $165 per teacher including GST • Includes lunch and refreshments • BOSTES accredited • Curriculum-linked MELBOURNE Thursday 19 May 2016 SYDNEY Friday 20 May 2016 CANBERRA Friday 27 May 2016 “Teaching Shakespeare is such a valuable experience for primary school children. It teaches them the value of intricate plots, complex characters and themes such as power, love and greed.”

Meg Manson, Canobolas Public School, NSW

Designed for primary students, Starting Shakespeare is a fresh, accessible and rich learning resource for you and your students. Clearly aligned to the Australian Curriculum, and featuring Bell Shakespeare artists, the app explores the world and work of William Shakespeare using two of Shakespeare’s best-loved plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Macbeth.

The rich content includes playful videos, engaging retellings, character profiles, historical information, active learning journeys and a comprehensive iBook for teachers.

• Suits Years 3–6 • Cost $6.49 • Available from iTunes App Store on iOS (iPad only) • Enrol in Apple’s Volume Purchasing Program for Education to receive a 50% discount by purchasing 20 or more copies

GET IN TOUCH Complete the booking form enclosed or contact us today to discuss using Shakespeare in your school.

PO Box 10 Millers Point NSW 2000 T 1300 305 730

F 1300 552 271

E learning@bellshakespeare.com.au bellshakespeare.com.au/learning

Photo credit: Luca Altamore

Why Shakespeare for primary students?

ACTORS AT WORK: Bottom’s Dream

IMMERSIVE WORKSHOPS

You’re never too young to experience the magic of Shakespeare. We’ve already introduced hundreds of Australian primary schools to his plays and characters, and the educational impact is immense. So why does it work?

NATIONAL TOUR NEW IN 2016

NATIONAL TOUR

Great stories Slapstick comedy, adventures on the high seas, witches with magical brews, disguises and mistaken identities, forests full of fairies, powerful wizards and murderous warriors…

Shakespeare’s plays offer a gamut of narratives guaranteed to engage young learners.

Powerful literacy tool Shakespeare’s language is poetry. His characters use words to create rich images, to convey vast emotions and to ignite the imagination. We edit the original text, decoding and demystifying the words for a challenge that young minds adore.

receptive Young minds Introducing Shakespeare to students when they are young is key to unlocking their appreciation and love for the plays.

Language is fascinating, rather than confusing. Inhibitions are non-existent. Primary students are programmed to play and have fun, which is what we do with Shakespeare, all-day, every day.

Bottom has had a most rare vision. He’s just woken up in the forest after a strange dream involving fairies, magic flowers and donkey ears. Was it just a dream, or was it real? Take his hand and help him piece together his journey through key scenes, playing with Shakespeare’s language and characters along the way. This is A Midsummer Night’s Dream through the eyes of one of Shakespeare’s greatest clowns. A magical and hilarious introduction to Shakespeare for junior primary.

• 50-minute performance + Q&A with The Players • Suits Years 1–4 • $995 for up to 140 students, $7 per student over 140, up to 200 students • Curriculum-linked teacher resources • Touring nationally, see bellshakespeare.com.au/learning “The Actors At Work programme is the perfect introduction to Shakespeare. The performance is age-specific, and the quality of acting engages the students in not only Shakespeare, but in how theatre can light up the imagination like no other medium.”

Kevin Farquhar, Grays Point Public School, NSW

Imagine one of Shakespeare’s characters entering your classroom and taking your students on a magical journey through a classic play. Immersive Shakespeare Workshops offer a unique, practical and cross-curricular approach to introducing Shakespeare’s stories. We will guide your class through the plot, characters, language, creative and critical thinking activities, for one of Shakespeare’s greatest plays.

So, who do you want to invite into your classroom? Be careful what you wish for…

• Two-hour, in-school workshop • Choose from Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest or Romeo And Juliet • Tailored to suit your students’ level and ability • Run by a Bell Shakespeare artist in role • Maximum 30 students • $550 including GST • Touring nationally, see bellshakespeare.com.au/learning Would you like a workshop on a play that’s not on our list?

Give us a call and we can design one for you.

“For all children to be totally enthralled for two hours – AMAZING. Fabulous quality learning. I learnt more about Shakespeare in two hours than after five years of teaching.”

Marita Nieuwenhuis, Balgowlah North