Our lineup for 2022 Shakespeare Festival
2022 Shakespeare Plays: Lower 1st All the World’s a Stage Upper 1st A Midsummer Night’s Dream 2MC Much Ado About Nothing 2C Romeo and Juliet 3B Macbeth 3S The Tempest 4N Henry V 4M The Comedy of Errors 5H The Merry Wives of Windsor (pt 2) 5S The Merry Wives of Windsor (pt 1) 6M […]
On Wednesday Mr Wilcock and I had the great pleasure of being the audience for this year’s Lower 1st Shakespeare production. As you are aware, due to unavoidable circumstances, the production was videoed only. In many ways this presented much more of a challenge to the children because there was no audience to help draw […]
Increasing maturity as readers
In English, this past week, 6N looked at how the title and cover of our class text, and our predictions about it, relate and connect to other books, to our personal lives and to society at large. The children offered insightful comments about familiar and memorable stories, experiences they have lived and ‘big ideas’ or […]
Auditions for Shakespeare Club
We had a very successful Shakespeare club this year and looking forward to doing it all again in 2020!Auditions for Shakespeare Club 2020 will be held in the Music Room on Wednesday 5th February in 2 sessions 7:15am-8:15am OR 1pm-1:30pm.Children should prepare a short Shakespeare monologue (no longer than 1 minute) to be performed without […]
Deputy Head’s Comment
Lower 1st performed in their first Shakespeare production this year and entertained us all with their clear diction and well-rehearsed stagecraft. Every child performed their part with enthusiasm and attention. Every detail had been carefully considered right down to the beautiful character drawings in the program. It was wonderful to see some of our future […]
Curtain comes down on a great finale
It has been a very successful year for our Shakespeare Club members! The club finished their activities for the year with a party this week, but our Director Zoe Emanuel is already planning for next year. 5th and 6th class students are welcome to enrol for the group at the start of 2020. Our Midsummer […]
A Shakespeare Masterclass
Yesterday, Bell Shakespeare’s primary schools educational outreach program performed for our 2nd to 6th classes. Their modern take on Romeo and Juliet was so much fun! As our drama director Zoe Emanuel says, it’s so valuable for our students to see live acting with so much energy, in which the language of Shakespeare is conveyed […]
Shakespeare Club success
Congratulations to our Shakespeare Club who were presented with 1st Place, a stunning red sash, for their performance of Romeo and Juliet at the Sport for Jove State Shakespeare Carnival on Monday 27th May 2019. Both our performance groups (Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet) were awarded Highly Commended at the Northern Beaches Eisteddfod in […]
Fighting safely and fairy movement
This week our Shakespeare Drama Club students had the first of their workshops by two visiting specialist drama coaches and our drama teacher Ms Emanuel. Chris Tomkinson, from Sport for Jove, explained that safe distances, maintaining eye contact, starting with very slow movements and always being in control were the most important rules when choreographing […]
Specialist coaching ahead of drama eisteddfods
Our drama club students will be performing in the Northern Beaches Eisteddfod and the Sydney Eisteddfod in May and June this year. They will be getting some specialist coaching from two professional actors over the next two weeks. Chris Tomkinson from Sport for Jove (he heads up the Education Department and is also an actor […]