Workshops for Book Week
✓ Nursery - Year 6
✓ Led by a professional performer
✓ Dance, Drama or Shakespeare
✓ Delivered in your school hall
Our literacy workshops bring creative learning experiences to primary schools that children will never forget - perfect for celebrating World Book Day.
Bringing Books to Life Dance Workshops | Story Explorer Drama Workshops | Shakespeare Drama Workshops
Celebrate a love of books and creative expression with our literacy workshops for primary schools, delivered in your school hall!
This year, World Book Day is celebrated Thursday 6 March 2025, and between 24 February and 14 March we’ll be running workshops inspired by our specially chosen selection of books and plays.
Workshops for Book Week
Dance Workshops that Bring Books to Life
Our dance workshops give children an immersive experience of storytelling. Each class works alongside a professional dancer to explore popular children’s books through movement.
Choose between our ever-popular ‘Bringing Books to Life’ workshops exploring a range of children’s books, or our new ‘Dance Today’ performance workshops where we bring your whole school together to create a show in a day.
Story Explorer Drama Workshops
By exploring children’s books through drama children have the chance to experience storytelling first-hand. Using techniques drawn from professional theatre they will gain confidence alongside a new understanding of the characters and themes as they live and breathe the story.
For the World Book Day period, choose between workshops inspired by The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr, The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister, George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl, Leonora Bolt: Secret Detective by Lucy Brandt, The Book of Legends by Lenny Henry and the traditional tale Little Red Riding Hood.
Shakespeare Explorer
Shakespeare’s plays were written to be performed. Our Shakespeare Explorer workshops use drama to give children an in-depth exploration of our greatest storyteller’s most famous plays.
You can choose from A Midsummer Night’s Dream or The Tempest for Book Week and Shakespeare Week 2025.
Perfect for Reception to Year 6, we work class by class using materials from the play that have been tailored for each age group.
Shakespeare Today
Imagine the children of your school joining together to perform a Shakespeare play to each other – and the whole process, including preparation, only taking one day!
Perfect for Reception to Year 6, we work class-by-class throughout the day to explore the story and characters of your chosen play through drama, culminating in an abridged version of the whole play which the children perform to each other.
For Book Week and Shakespeare Week 2025 you can choose from A Midsummer Night’s Dream or Macbeth.