A fun wordsearch exploring the themes and characters of Macbeth. Answers supplied on a separate sheet. There are lots more wordsearches on the Shakespeare Week website.

A fun crossword (and the answers!) which helps pupils explore Shakespeare’s life and times as well as the plays he wrote.

This art resource for teachers and pupils details how to recreate the Tudor equivalent of tracing which was Pouncing. In this resource pupils make a simple copy of the Cobbe portrait of William Shakespeare. The resource contains background on pouncing and the Cobbe portrait for teachers and a template for pupils to use to produce their own version.

This language resource for teachers looks at creating Shakespearian insults. It contains a simple insult generator encouraging pupils to combine Shakespeare’s words in new ways to create their own insults. You could use this resource as a drama exercise or as an English exercise insults can be enjoyed on their own or as part of a longer narrative created by the class. Pupils could create puppets or pencil tops to insult each other!

This technology resource contains simple instructions for pupils and teachers to make a Tudor money bag. These bags were tied to belts and were the Tudor equivalent of wallets and purses. Tudor pick pockets were known as ‘cut purses’ because cutting the ties into someone’s leather money bag would allow their money to be stolen.

This versatile maths resource provides teachers with a simple background and historical statistics relating to the recorded plague deaths in Stratford upon Avon in the year of Shakespeare’s birth. Teachers could set a number of maths problems based on these figures as well as exploring a genuine record of an outbreak of plague in a number of creative ways.

This technology resource for pupils and teachers explores the history of the Globe Theatre and invites pupils to make their own Tudor style money pot from modelling clay. Use this resource to have fun whilst learning about the history of theatre going what archaeologists found when digging at the site of the Globe theatre in London.

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Joan Patrick was a real person and this maths resource for pupils and teachers explores her inventory taken from historical documents. Pupils will learn about the use of roman numerals and Tudor coinage, as well as exploring social history and the value of goods. Supplementary resources about roman numerals and the items in the inventory can be found on the Shakespeare Week website.

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Oliver Gunn, a weaver's apprentice, was the first victim of the plague in Stratford-upon-Avon. He died and was buried on 11 July 1564. In the Burials Register, next to this entry, John Brechtgirdle, the Vicar of Holy Trinity Church, wrote 'Hic incepit pestis' &' 'The plague starts here'. During the next few months the number of deaths from plague increased. September was by far the worst month.

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