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Drove down to Stratford today to see Mr Tennant playing Berowne in Love’s Labour’s Lost.  On the journey my partner asked my daughter and me to imagine a villain-line across the windscreen and place characters from Shakespeare along it.  We soon had Richard III beyond the central reservation!  Were we right?  Next came heroes and heroines.

Great idea, but not her own.  On Friday she was at a ‘Shakespeare’ day in Dudley with the RSC Education Department (need to get one in Shropshire) and the idea for the villain-line came from ‘Shakespeare for all ages and stages’  published by DCSF.  This contains ideas and guidance for teaching Shakespeare from Foundation Stage to KS4. 

DCSF are also offering Primary Schools a free copy of Shakespeare Animated Tales and Secondary Schools can download podcasts of the Globe production of Much Ado About Nothing.

For Shropshire schools there is a resources section devoted to Shakespeare on the Shropshire Learning Gateway.