Celebrating Shakespeare: G&T students in visit to Bard's Birthplace

On the 22nd April 2016 a group of Gifted and Talented students from King Edward VI High School were taken on a trip to Stratford-Upon-Avon to visit the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
When the group arrived they were taken to a room to discuss one of the most well-known and well liked plays by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet. Here they talked about many aspects of the play such as the prologue and the scene of Romeo’s death. One of the staff there also acted out a few scenes throughout the discussion, playing the part of Romeo.
After that the group went to the ‘Famous Beyond Words’ Shakespeare exhibition. This was a self-guided tour showcasing many of the objects, documents, books and quotes from Shakespeare’s life, all of which were exploring his social life and relationships in Stratford. This went on to gardens and the Shakespeare birthplace where William was born and raised and ten lived as an adult.
The house showed how Shakespeare would have lived and also displayed many artefacts that Shakespeare would have lived with. One of these items was the original birthing room window. Loads of people who visited when Shakespeare after his death (the earliest date recorded was in 1806) would carve their name and the date they visited into the window so now there are over 100 names carved into the glass.
Around the tour there were many people dressed in clothes of the period who could recount many interesting facts about Shakespeare and his plays as well as quotes and monologues from his work.
Overall it was a very interesting and entertaining day thanks to the teachers who arranged it and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
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REPORT BY LAUREN MILLS