KS2 Shakespeare Week activities – Improve wellbeing by exploring identity

Use Shakespeare Week in March to help pupils explore their own identities.

Do you wear your heart on your sleeve? Are you sometimes the green-eyed monster? Although Shakespeare wrote over 400 years ago, the creative language he used to describe the human spirit remains relevant today.

Shakespeare Week is an annual celebration of Shakespeare in primary schools, organised by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. This year it takes place between 15-21 March 2021 and has a theme of wellbeing.

These exciting emotional wellbeing activities will help your pupils to become Will’s Wellbeing Warriors as part of your Shakespeare Week celebrations this year.

What they’ll learn

• Mental wellbeing is as important as our physical health
• How to recognise and talk about emotions
• Self-belief is an important part of our mental wellbeing
• Develop understanding through hypothesising and exploring ideas
• Create a haiku poem

This download contains

• Full PDF lesson plan

Sally Gray is education officer at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and a former primary teacher. Register on the Shakespeare Week website to receive access to hundreds of free resources including assembly plans, videos, short versions of Shakespeare’s plays, poetry, storytelling, grammar, debate, art and much more. Follow @shakespeareweek on Twitter for updates.