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School Trips to Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

The Globe Theatre: where Shakespeare comes to life! As an official 'Friend of the Globe', NST can arrange a variety of tours and sessions - each tailored to your class' individual needs, curriculum, and study plan.

Wander around the 'wooden O' with a guide-storyteller. They'll take you on a tour of the Globe, sharing its history through fascinating stories. Starting in 1599, you'll explore the theatre's turbulent past and reconstruction processes - including the most recent in the 1990s. And if you're particularly lucky, you might get a behind the scenes peek at a cast rehearsal!

Live demonstrations and workshops can offer students an engaging and interactive experience. Sessions exploring Elizabethan dressing and Shakespeare's use of stage fighting are particularly popular for students - and teachers!

A Globe Theatre study day offers a practical introduction and expert insight into your chosen play. On-site guides will walk students through plot lines, characterisation, key themes, and language use - as well as the social, historical, and cultural context of the play. But crucially, you'll have a truly unique opportunity to experience the play in its original setting, exploring how the conditions at the Globe have shaped style, language, and performance of the play over time. Each session will be tailored to your chosen play and in keeping with GCSE and A level specifications.

Interested in a school trip to Shakespeare's Globe Theatre? Get in touch today to discuss your options - call our team of travel experts on 0845 293 7970.

Shakepeare's Globe Theatre School Trip FAQs

Is shakespeare's globe open air.

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre is an open air theatre, meaning that you should dress appropriately for the weather. We recommend taking rain protection and sunscreen as you will be exposed to the elements. If you are in the area surrounding the stage, then you will be exposed to the weather. However, the Sam Wanamaker playhouse is indoors. In Shakespeares Globe Theatre, there is a standing and seated area. If you're in the standing area, then you will be standing for the duration of the performance.

How long is the tour of the Globe Theatre?

A guided tour of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre takes arounf 30 to 40 minutes, however this is subject to availability depending on rehersals and the show programme. It also takes around 30 to 40 minutes to take a tour of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. 

Can you take food into the Globe Theatre?

You can take food and drink into Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, providing that you do not bring any glass. There are also places where you can purchase food and drink witin the Globe. The Swan bar and restaurant is open until 23:00 Monday-Saturday. 

What are the opening times for the Globe Theatre?

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre is open from 09:30 to 18:00 and guided tours depart every 30 minutes starting from 09:30.  The Box Office is open from 10:00 to 18:00 daily. 

This is subject to availability and depending on rehersals and the show programme. 

Is this the original Shakespeare's Globe?

The original location of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre is around 200 metres from the Globe today and is marked by a plaque on the wall, as well as informational guides. Today, the Globe Theatre that stands is a reconstruction of the original where Shakespeare worked.

Our school trips to Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

Cultural trips.

For a school trip that will inspire your students, you need to look no further than our very own capital city London. We can create a cultural tour suited to you which offers pupils the opportunity to experience big city life and widen their horizons.

Learn more about our cultural trips to London .

Primary School Trips 

A primary school trip to London enables pupils to discover many aspects of their curriculum in a short space of time and we can create an itinerary package around any theme of your choice.

Learn more about our KS2 trips to London

GCSE Study Day at Shakespeare's Globe

Tailored to complement the KS4 English requirements, these study days offer an introduction to your chosen play at GCSE. On this study day, students will learn about the social, historical and cultural context of the play, explore aspects of plot and characterisation, identify key themes and analyse language.

Planning your first school trip?

If you're planning your first school trip, our essential guide will take you through each step of the process.

  • Choosing your destination
  • Gaining approval from your Local Authority and/or your Head
  • Promoting your tour in school
  • Confirming your booking
  • Tailor-make your tour
  • Completing your risk assessments (including a sample risk assessment)
  • Quick reference timeline
  • Pre-tour checklist

Additional support, resources & information:

Tour planning service

With NST, you’ll get your own dedicated, knowledgeable Tour Co-ordinator who’ll work with you from start to finish. You’ll benefit from their unrivalled destination knowledge, and their experience gained from working with many other groups too. They’ll tailor-make your itinerary from scratch and take care of everything for you:

  • Pulling together an itinerary that runs smoothly
  • Planning the right balance of visits every day with realistic timings
  • Pre-arranging and pre-booking your visits, entrance tickets, passes and meals

You’ll receive your final itinerary a full 4-weeks before you travel too.

FREE school trip promotion pack

We’ll support you and provide everything you need to advertise your school trip around school and to parents. Our free school trip promotion pack consists of:

  • Parents’ letter & permission slip template for you to complete
  • A3 posters to promote your trip around school
  • PowerPoint presentation templates which you can tailor to your own needs
  • Parents’ leaflets covering how NST manage safety, financial protection and details of our travel insurance
  • Online parents’ video which showcases the benefits of taking a school trip

For selected destinations, we’ll provide a trip launch web page using video footage and imagery. This web page is provided by a weblink and can be shared with pupils and parents in many ways.

Risk assessment support including preview visits

Risk assessment plays a vitally important part in the planning and organisation on any school tour. Our risk assessment guide aims to help you understand more about your obligations and how you can more effectively manage group safety on your next educational visit and provide you with risk assessments for your trip.

Planning first school trip

Organising your first school trip can appear to be a daunting process.  If you're planning your first school trip, our guide will help to take you through each step of the planning process, answering frequently asked questions and providing tips and support along the way.  Our helpful guide covers the following: 

  • Choosing your destination 
  • Gaining approval from your Local Authority and/or your Head 
  • Promoting your tour in school 
  • Completing your risk assessments (including a sample risk assessment) 
  • Quick reference timeline 
  • Pre-tour checklist 

View our essential guide to a successful school trip here

Get live updates on your group's tour location

Locate My Trip uses GPS technology and is the easy, convenient way for your school to follow your location whilst on tour. Specifically designed to provide reassurance to both parents and teachers, NST will know where your group are 24/7. If your schedule needs to change, we’ll put plans in place to keep your tour on track. 

With Locate My Trip your group can also share photos and videos with the school and parents, via a secure link, to keep them updated on your experience whilst you’re away.

Watch our short Locate My Trip video here .

Your online school trip organiser - My Tour Manager

Save time and stay on track with your school trip admin with our online orgnaniser - designed to help busy teachers like you.  With My Tour Manager, you'll be able to download FREE resources and access trip paperwork online and in one place. Your personalised checklist details what you need to do and by when, plus you'll receive fortnightly reminders too.  What's more, you can take all your trip documents on the go whilst on your tour with our app, My Tour Manager-On-the-Go.  Find out more and watch out short My Tour Manager video here

Free classroom resources

We've created a range of free resources and educational posters to brighten up your classroom!  Take a look at our downloadable posters here

Speak to one of our school travel experts

Our team of school travel experts have unrivalled destination knowledge and experience so they can help to bring your tour ideas to life and might even suggest options you hadn’t already thought of too! So get in touch today and we'll help to create a bespoke, budget-friendly tour itinerary to meet your specific learning requirements.

Why choose NST...

Here's why thousands of teachers choose NST each year...

  • Unrivalled knowledge

Your dedicated Tour Co-ordinator will use their unrivalled local knowledge and expertise to create a tailor-made, curriculum-linked itinerary to meet your group’s exact needs.

  • Making it easier for you

With our online school trip organiser , travel app , free classroom posters and trip launch resources to support your in-school promotion.

  • Free group leader inspection visits

We offer a free inspection visit to your chosen destination to support your risk assessment planning. 

  • Value for money

We’re committed to bringing you the best possible value trips to help make every penny count.

  • More than 50 years’ experience

With over 50 years’ experience , with NST you can rest assured that your group is in safe hands.

  • Risk assessment guidance

Our risk assessment guidance will help you to manage group safety on your next educational trip.

  • Peace of mind

Your group’s location can be followed with our trip tracking device - Locate My Trip - plus you’ll have 24/7 support from us whilst you’re away. ​

  • Offsetting carbon emissions

For every trip taken, we'll plant a Maya nut tree in Peru to support reforestation, local communities & biodiversity. Plus, we'll offset an additional tonne of CO2 to guarantee carbon emission reductions. 

Looking for protection on your next school trip? 

Booking with a school travel company is the best way for you to protect parents’ money and give yourself peace of mind.  

Don’t forget – if your school arranges transport, accommodation and other services directly, you’ll be liable under the Package Travel Regulations – meaning you’ll have all the responsibilities of a travel company, both legal and financial. 

Financial protection from the moment you book

NST are fully bonded:

Managing safety on school trips

For your protection, NST's independently audited Safety Management System covers:

  • 24-hour emergency cover
  • Audited accommodation & transport
  • Excursions & school visit assessment
  • Group leader preview visits to assist with risk assessment planning

We're LOtC Council’s Quality Badge assured

The Department for Education advises schools to always look for the LOtC Quality Badge when choosing a school travel provider.

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Shakespeare's Globe

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VIRTUAL TOUR.

Step inside the Globe Theatre

  • Virtual tour: online
  • Virtual tour: 360 app

Everyone, no matter where they are in the world, can now walk around Shakespeare’s Globe with our virtual tour and 360 iOS app .

Use this page or download the app to tour the Globe Theatre from the comfort of your own home. Our interactive 360 degrees virtual tour uses photos, videos and audible wonder to guide you along the way.

This online digital tour is free. We ask that you consider a donation to us in return, as a charity currently relying on your support more than ever before. Thank you.

VIRTUAL TOUR: ONLINE

Using your mouse or your finger if you are on a mobile or tablet tap the box that says “VIEW 360”.

Then click and hold or tap and drag the screen to look around the interior of the Globe Theatre.

Tap on the circles and explore the images, videos and sounds that are located around the Globe Theatre.

Tap out when you are done and keep tapping away to find discover more!

Have fun and keep on discovering!

VIRTUAL TOUR: 360 APP

Packed with interesting facts, videos and photos, our free app allows anyone in the world to explore a virtual version of the world’s most iconic theatre.

Move around the virtual theatre, zoom in and out and reveal the theatre’s oak frame. Venture through the oak doors and head inside, where you can explore the theatre as stunning 360 degree images. Locations include an actor’s-eye view from the stage, backstage in the tiring-house, the musicians’ gallery and standing in the Yard.

The app is free and available on Apple iOS.

It contains an optional in app purchase.

 Globe 360 via App Store

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The Old Globe provides thousands of free tickets to area students to see special matinee performances of many of our productions. The Old Globe Student matinee program supports schools’ efforts to introduce young people to live theatre as a means of gaining appreciation for the art form and as a springboard for developing creative expression skills. We are committed to supporting area schools through strong, standards-based initiatives that enhance arts literacy for students of all ages. An integral part of the free matinee program is the free in-classroom, pre-performance workshop designed to enhance the theatre-going experience. Teaching Artists use an interactive approach to engage students in understanding the play and concepts of the theatrical production. Student matinees are for high school audiences.

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Cultivate your artistic voice.  Spend your summer at The Old Globe exploring acting, movement, music, voice, stage combat, and the art of storytelling while investigating the work and artistry of William Shakespeare. Students will also take part in regular master classes with Globe artists and staff. Open to students entering ninth-twelfth grade, or recently graduated.

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The Globe Players

Bringing high quality theatre into schools for 50 years, looking forward to 2024.

2024 is nearly upon us! We have been delighted to visit schools and audiences with our shows during the Autumn term and have been busily taking bookings for Christmas. We have only a couple of Christmas dates available, so if you do want us to pay your school a festive visit, get in touch asap!

We have only limited dates available for the start of 2024, but we are very excited to once again be offering our ‘Text-Study’ shows on Shakespeare and other classic texts to schools for the entire school year, including our first tour to the Midlands in March (only limited dates still available so CONTACT US if you would like to see us!).

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From January – July we are touring a wide selection of our classic text-study shows for Secondary schools. See below for the full list and more information.

In December, Primary schools can choose from two classic fairy tales to be performed in your school hall. These popular productions delight and enchant younger audiences – a real festive treat!

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SECONDARY SCHOOL SHOWS AVAILABLE TO BOOK JANUARY – J ULY 2024

(LIMITED DATES STILL AVALABLE FOR 2023)

MACBETH   |   ROMEO AND JULIET

WHAT YOU WILL (INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE)

AN INSPECTOR CALLS   |   JEKYLL AND HYDE

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

PRIMARY SCHOOL SHOWS AVAILABLE IN DECEMBER

(Only a couple of dates left!)

THE SLEEPING BEAUTY There is lots of excitement and hilarious comedy before the enchanted princess finally awakes from her long sleep to find her prince. An enchanting staging of the traditional tale using Tchaikovsky’s ballet music.

RUMPELSTILTSKIN

There is EXCITEMENT, MAGIC and LOTS OF COMEDY in this superb dramatization of the famous Grimm’s tale. The King is unimpressed about the Miller’s boasts about his daughter’s accomplishments, until he puts her to the test..

Spring / Summer 2023

2023 got off to a roaring start!

We are nearly fully booked for the spring term, and our diary is filling up fast for the summer, so do get in touch if you would like The Globe Players to visit your school with some of our highly acclaimed shows.

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In the summer months, our Shakespeare productions can be performed indoors or outdoors! Your students can pop on their shades, relax on the grass and be thoroughly entertained by Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth or our introduction to Shakespeare: What You Will.

AVAILABLE TO BOOK

MACBETH | ROMEO AND JULIET

AN INSPECTOR CALLS | JEKYLL AND HYDE

AUTUMN TERM 2022

We are now taking bookings for Autumn Term 2022!

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Our popular one-hour Text Study performances contain energetic performances of key scenes from curriculum texts, interspersed with contextual analysis and narration, to keep all your students up to speed and engrossed in the action.

Available to book

MACBETH   |   ROMEO AND JULIET  

  AN INSPECTOR CALLS | JEKYLL AND HYDE

Regional Tour 2022/23

We’re in the process of organising our first regional tour! If you would love to have a visit from The Globe Players, but your school is outside our usual touring area (London and the surrounding counties) then please send us an email to register your interest.

Welcome Michael Rosen, our new patron!

We are proud and delighted to announce that Michael Rosen, writer, poet and all round inspiration, is now a patron of The Globe Players. He joins our current patrons, Hayley Mills and Jeremy Irons.

As with everyone, the challenges of the last few years have been difficult and this wonderful news gives us hope for an exciting and dynamic 2022!

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All of us at The Globe Players remember the impact drama and literature had when we were at school. As a theatre company who work in schools day in, day out, we appreciate the extraordinary efforts of the teachers who gave and keep giving so much to allow the magic of theatre to blossom. Here Michael expresses it perfectly….

What did they think they were doing

those English teachers

staying on after school

to put on plays?

I was an ant in a play about ants.

Then I was a servant

in Much Ado About Nothing.

Hours and hours rehearsing

in winter classrooms.

My father did it too,

bringing home the problem

of how to make blood for Julius Caesar’s toga

and snakes for Cleopatra.

They got no money for it

these English teachers.

Sometimes headteachers were pleased

sometimes mildly irritated that the hall was out of action

for their assemblies.

We left school.

They retired.

They’re all gone:

Mr Jones, Mr Brown, my father.

There are one or two photos

blurred pictures of unbelievably young people

with too much make-up round the eyes;

some marked up play scripts,

the character’s name underlined in red,

stage directions – ‘move stage right’.

voice directions – ‘urgent’.

Did they know that we would carry the

for decades?

60 years since ‘Much Ado’.

Did they know that it’d be easier to remember

the lines and the Leichner make-up

than how to do simultaneous equations

and the correct order of the cities down the

though I can be a red corpuscle

and describe my journey from the left ventricle

to my fingers and back

(it involves all four chambers of the heart).

Did they know that some of us

would do more and more and more

of things like saying words out loud

or writing words for others to say out loud

or just working with a few other enthusiastic people

to get something done.

Did they know that?

I once bumped into Mr Brown

on Russell Square Station.

He was in his 70s

I was in my 60s.

I had a lot to tell him.

He had a lot to tell me.

There wasn’t time.

We said, ‘Let’s meet up.’

He died soon after.

He had an obituary in the Times.

They asked me to add a bit.

I wanted to say that those hours in the winter classrooms

being an ant mattered then mattered again and again

and still matter.

Well, they matter to me.

But did he know that?

Did he know that they would go on mattering?

And if he knew that, where did he and Mr Jones and my father

learn that the kids in their plays

would go on thinking about being ants and servants

for the rest of their lives?

Michael Rosen

Now available to tour to your school hall

MACBETH  |  ROMEO AND JULIET  |  AN INSPECTOR CALLS

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Merry Christmas!

We are on tour through December until the end of term, visiting school halls with our festive shows for all ages.

For Primary Schools:

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Join the Cratchit family as they settle in for Christmas Eve!  Including festive songs and characters (Mr Christmas himself may even pop in to visit), this production is a seasonal treat for all ages.

For Secondary Schools:

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The classic tale is brought vividly to life with key scenes, as well as useful textual analysis – a festive treat that will also help for exam preparation! Expect sparkling characters, spooky ghosts and plenty of fun!

Book now for 2022!

From January we will continue to visit schools with our popular ‘text-study’ productions, which combine lively, dramatized scenes of each text with helpful narration and analysis. Click a show below for more information

MACBETH  |  ROMEO AND JULIET  |  AN INSPECTOR CALLS  |  JEKYLL AND HYDE

New digital live-stream for Armistice Day

This November, our popular production of Desperate Glory will be streamed online, enabling as many schools as possible to experience the show from their own classrooms.

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Join our digital audience on 11th November for our live-broadcast of Desperate Glory. Featuring music, poetry and first-hand accounts of life during the WW1, Desperate Glory is a show that is extremely moving, richly entertaining, and, above all, thought-provoking.

Touring to Schools:

We continue to tour to schools this term with a variety of fascinating shows for Primary and Secondary schools.

‘Text- Study’ productions for Secondary schools

These productions bring to life key scenes of each text, interspersed with fascinating narration and analysis, perfect for exam preparation.

MACBETH | ROMEO AND JULIET | AN INSPECTOR CALLS | JEKYLL AND HYDE

Christmas Show for Primary Schools

CHRISTMAS WITH DICKENS!

Autumn Tour 2021

Thank you for welcoming us back into your school buildings.

We are now taking bookings from September 2021.

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Shows for Secondary Schools

Click the title to find out more!

ROMEO AND JULIET

AN INSPECTOR CALLS

THE STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE

WHAT YOU WILL (Introduction to Shakespeare)

Digital Event to Mark Remembrance Day

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On 11th November 2021, our acclaimed production of Desperate Glory (The War Poets) will broadcast live online, available to schools all over the world. This 60 minute production combines poetry, music and first-hand accounts from the First World War, showing how attitudes changed thoughout the conflict. Moving, entertaining and thought-provoking. Not to be missed!

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Shows for Primary Schools

Available in November and December :

CHRISTMAS WITH DICKENS

BACK ON TOUR!

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We are so grateful to have received a grant from The Arts Council, enabling us to return to touring theatre to schools from June 2021! We are so proud of the digital shows that we have shared with nearly 150 schools all over the world (and more to come!) but for now we are so excited to visit your school in person! For both Primary and Secondary schools, we have shows on Shakespeare, Dickens, Priestley and, new for 2021, Jekyll and Hyde! Scroll to see what’s available!

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Shakespeare

Secondary schools can choose from our ‘text study’ productions of a variety of Shakespeare plays, combining lively performances of key scenes with narration and analysis, to provide a comprehensive revision or introduction to a text. Choose from:

WHAT YOU WILL (Intro to Shakespeare for KS3)

Primary schools can enjoy our introduction to Shakespeare created especially for younger audiences, THE PLAY’S THE THING

All Shakespeare performances can be performed in your school hall OR in your school grounds – ideal for maintaining social distancing or creating an even more magical experience for your students!

 ‘How wonderful the performances were today – 160 pupils from a tricky inner city school were thoroughly enchanted for the day. It was magic. The actors were fabulous, very generous with their time and hugely engaging both in the performances and in the Q&As. It was pitched perfectly. We also really loved the fourth wall-breaking context lessons and explanations of key concepts and ideas!’   Oasis Academy, Croydon

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Dickens, Priestley and more…

We have even more ‘text study’ shows available for Secondary schools. We dramatize key moments from the play / novel, combining them with contextual analysis and narration – exciting performances that include everything your students need to know to prep for their exams!

AN INSPECTOR CALLS | A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Brand new for 2021!

For prices and more information, see our FAQ page !

Celebrate Shakespeare’s Birthday with Us!

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On 23rd April, join schools all over the world as we live-stream our productions of The Play’s The Thing and Romeo and Juliet to mark the birthday of Britain’s greatest playwright. Available for seven days after the initial broadcast and followed by a live Q&A where your students can ask the actors questions in real time, this is a global event not to be missed!

The Play’s The Thing

Suitable for all ages, this introduction to Shakespeare brings to life scenes from some of Shakespeare’s most popular plays. Featuring Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and more, experience the fun, drama and magic of Shakespeare’s works.

“WE HAVE MARKED THIS DAY AS THE DAY THE GLOBE PLAYERS INTRODUCED OVER 400 OF OUR CHILDREN TO WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AND BEGAN A LOVE FOR HIS WORKS THAT WILL LAST THEM A LIFETIME.”  Dr Triplett’s School

Live streaming: 9.30am, Friday 23rd April.

Running time: 45mins + Q&A

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Romeo and Juliet

This digital show for Primary schools brings out all the joy and fun that can be found in Shakespeare’s timeless love story. Learn all about the world’s most famous pair of lovers, discover some of the best Shakespearean insults and party with the Capulets!

‘ Everyone I spoke to has absolutely raved about it. The way you broke up the performance with short interludes explaining what was going on was really effective and definitely kept children engaged.  The humour and energy of everyone involved was spot on. ’ St Christopher’s School

Live streaming: 1.45pm, Friday 23rd April

The price to join our audience for each show is £150 per school. Each link is valid for seven days after the initial broadcast. Both shows can be accessed for £250 (+ VAT).

Performances in schools – The Globe Players Return!

We are delighted that we can begin planning our return to schools and performing in your school hall! We have missed you! We are now taking bookings from 17th May 2021. However, we still have some digital productions coming up, live-streamed to wherever you are! See below for full details.

‘I just wanted to shoot you a quick message to say how wonderful the performances were today – 160 pupils from a tricky inner city school were thoroughly enchanted for the day. It was magic. The actors were fabulous, very generous with their time and hugely engaging both in the performances and in the Q&As. It was pitched perfectly. We also really loved the fourth wall-breaking context lessons and explanations of key concepts and ideas!’  Oasis Academy, Croydon (May 2019)

Of course, we will be mindful of any on-going restrictions or distancing measures. We know that we can offer our productions in a safe and exciting environment. Some of our shows can be offered as outdoor productions, performed in your school grounds. Check out the information below to find out what’s on offer.

Digital Shows Live On!

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However, before we return to touring, there is still a chance to catch our highly acclaimed, live, online shows! We still have upcoming live-streams of Romeo and Juliet , Macbeth and A Christmas Carol , all performed in our unique ‘text-study’ format and followed by a live question and answer session with the actors. With shows for both primary and Secondary schools, there’s sure to be something to suit your needs.

Check out the upcoming broadcast dates!

Celebrate Shakespeare’s Birthday with us!

Join us on 23rd April to celebrate Shakespeare’s Birthday in style! Suitable for all ages, our much-loved introduction to Shakespeare, The Play’s The Thing , will broadcast live to schools all over the world, followed by our version of Romeo and Juliet for Primary Schools. Book your school in to watch one, or both, shows – this is a birthday celebration not to be missed!

We can’t wait to visit your school again!

We are taking bookings from 17th May to perform in your school hall again. There really is nothing like live theatre, and our shows for primary and secondary schools are events that really will engage and excite your students, enhancing their learning experience.

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Our text study productions for Secondary schools provide vital catch-up learning. Key scenes from each text are presented in a lively and engaging way, intertwined with analysis of the characters, language and context. A full revision of the text in 60 minutes.

‘Everything went really well yesterday. I thought the production was excellent – narration works really well and the pupils, staff and headteacher all really enjoyed it. The actors were uniformly excellent and very friendly and professional.’ Sacred Heart Secondary School.

Productions available include Macbeth , A Christmas Carol , Romeo and Juliet , What You Will and An Inspector Calls. The Shakespeare productions are also suitable to be performed outside in your school grounds.

For Primary schools, our funny, energetic production of The Play’s The Thing is a great way to introduce younger audiences to the magic of Shakespeare. This can be performed in your school hall, or outside in your school grounds.

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Best World Globes for Kids to Learn Geography and Language

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Every child needs a world globe! With the world in their hands, kids can travel to new places and learn geography, history, and culture. Bilingual globes can also encourage second language learning for kids . Here are the best world globes for kids and students based on our family’s experience with homeschooling and traditional classrooms.

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Our Favorite World Globes for Kids of All Ages!

Benefits of world globes for kids

Kids have so much to learn from world globes!

  • Spatial awareness: A world globe can help kids understand the relative size, proportions, and distance between land masses and countries.
  • Topography: A textured world globe can help children learn about mountains, valleys, and various terrains.
  • Time zones: By demonstrating the Earth’s rotation, children can understand day versus night and how time changes as you move east or west along the equator.
  • Cultural awareness: Kids can “visit” different cultures and people worldwide. This can help kids develop global awareness and respect for diversity.
  • Interactive learning: In a world dominated by screens, a world globe allows kids to engage with the physical environment around them. Plus, spinning a world globe is timeless fun!

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Best globes for kids to learn geography

In addition to having high ratings and reviews, these world globes contribute to a solid educational foundation.

Best Montessori globe for toddlers

In a Montessori classroom, toddlers and preschoolers use the land and water sandpaper globe first. The simple brown and blue colors show the difference between continents and oceans.

Montessori Animals and Continents 3-Part Cards (English, Chinese, Korean)

However, for most families, a cost-effective option is to start with the Montessori color continents globe 各大洲地球仪 / 各大洲地球儀 (Gè dàzhōu dìqiúyí). The color coding helps kids memorize the seven continents.

Kids can use the globe with the printable Montessori Animals of the World activity .

Recommended: The Best Montessori Geography Maps, Books, and Activities

Best basic globe for kids in English

Best basic globe for kids in English

When children in elementary, middle, and high school are ready for more facts, Repogle’s 12″ classic globe can help them explore!

It’s filled with details about more than 4000 locations around the world.

Best interactive globe for kids in English

Educational Interactive World Globe STEM Toy for Kids

The PlayShifu Digital Earth 10″ globe has an accompanying app filled with facts about animals, cultures, monuments, inventions, maps, and cuisines worldwide.

Best 3D Earth puzzle for kids

Ravensburger puzzle globe for kids and adults; fun decoration

If your child or student is a puzzle-lover, the Ravensburger Earth puzzle is a unique, educational gift. My kids had so much fun building this 3D world globe puzzle.

Note that the puzzle is easier than it looks because the pieces are labeled with numbers.

Recommended : Amazing Puzzles for Kids of All Ages

Best bilingual globes for kids to learn language

If you’re raising bilingual children, these globes can encourage them to speak the minority language and learn about world diversity.

Since reading in a second language can be more challenging, 12″ in diameter or larger globes are ideal for readability. Check out these options in Chinese, Spanish, and French!

Best globe in English and Simplified Chinese

Repogle bilingual world globe in English and Simplified Chinese

As a bilingual family, we encourage our kids to speak Chinese at home.

Since a print-rich environment gives us visual reminders to speak Chinese, the Repogle 12″ bilingual globe makes learning the translated names of cities and countries a fun experience.

It can also be a fun way to find familiar Chinese characters.

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Best globe in English and Traditional Chinese

Interactive traditional Chinese Globe

This beautiful 10″ bilingual globe has cool illuminated features. It has country and ocean names in traditional Chinese and English.

Although this world globe is smaller, the interactive features are a huge win. Download the accompanying app to learn more about the world in Mandarin.

Best Spanish language globe for kids

If you’re learning Spanish, the Repogle 12″ world globe is a beautiful tool for encouraging kids to speak and read the language. It’s lightweight, with beautiful colors and raised mountains for topographic learning. The land and water labels are all in Español for full language immersion.

Best French language globe for kids

French language learners would be lucky to have this 12″ world globe! The pastel colors and textured surface make it beautiful for learning and decoration on a desk.

I ordered this globe as a gift for a bilingual teacher who speaks English and French! The land and water labels are entirely in Français.

More fun ways for kids to learn about the world

Montessori continents 3-part cards in Chinese, Korean, English - Free printables

Printable Montessori Continents 3-part cards (Chinese, Korean, English)

Geography Map Atlas Books in Chinese and English

Great World Map Atlas Books in Chinese and English

Inclusive Lunar New Year Activities Book

Lunar New Year Around the World Activities Book for Kids

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How to Celebrate Lunar New Year at School – Fun, Inclusive Ideas

Which world globe is your child’s favorite?

Is your child using the world globe at school or for homeschooling? Please share in the comments below! We’d love to hear about your family’s experience.

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Dr. Betty Choi is a Harvard-trained pediatrician and mother on a mission to connect families through language and play. Chalk Academy was inspired by her trials and triumphs with relearning a heritage language and raising bilingual children in a monolingual community. Dr. Choi's advice has been featured in Healthline, Parents, The Atlantic, and VeryWell.

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The bilingual globe is such a wonderful find! Thank you! Would you happen to have a new coupon code? I just tried purchasing and it’s expired.

Neither. Luckily my son is still young enough where I dont need to send him to school. I dont even know how I would decide what to do during this time…

None of the above! Both kids are preschool age and just playing at home all day long. Wish I had time to do some teaching. They’d love this globe though!

oooh! I love traveling and would like to instill that to the kids as well. The globe with Simplified Chinese would be great for us to be more exposed to the Chinese language. This is an amazing amazing find!! Thank you for introducing this to us Betty

We hope to win the Chinese globe for my grandkids who are homeschooling

Homeschooling as well right now! This would be a wonderful!

My son goes to school in person where he takes Mandarin as one of his classes. He also goes to Saturday Chinese school – but online. We would LOVE the bilingual English-Chinese globe! Thanks for the opportunity!

This bilingual globe is fantastic! My son is showing a lot of interests in the world right now. He is not in preschool this year due to the pandemic 🥺I teach him Mandarin when I’m off work.

Yes, we are homeschooling with classical conversations and this year my 7 year old memorized all his states and capitals, and points them out readily on any map (which mom cannot yet do, lol!). We have been on the hunt for a good globe for about a year now, so appreciate this post! It would be amazing if they also created one with traditional Chinese. 🙂

My kids are doing homeschool right now.

My son is doing distance learning in the morning and I use your resources to teach him Chinese in the afternoon. I would love the Chinese/English globe!

This would be a great addition to our homeschooling. We dream of world schooling one day and start with the integration of their Chinese heritage. I hope and pray we win the globe with Simplified Chinese. This is truly a rare treasure!

I homeschool in Chinese and have been eyeing the Chinese/English globe to add to our learning resources. Plus, I have a love for globes and the world map. <3

We would enjoy the Simplified Chinese/English globe. My kids are doing distance learning and we have an old, wobbly globe with some very outdated country names. They also love playing spin the globe.

Hi Betty! My two kids are doing distance learning with extra homeschooling on the side. Thank you for hosting such a wonderful giveaway!

Distance learning, but honestly it feels like homeschooling. Thank you for all these awesome giveaways opportunities!

My son is 3 y/o and he is at home this year. Next year we are hoping he can start in person preschool. We would love the Chinese/English globe!

We are homeschooling my older kids (7 and 4 years old) and the English globe would be such a great help!

We are homeschooling now. I would like a Chinese/English globe!

I am homeschooling my 3 and 1.5 yrs old. We would love to win the simplified Chinese globe!

We are doing homeschool this year

My daughter is learning from home for languages and distance learning for school.Would love an English globe. We travel the world through music and food.

My son is curious about the world and how the earth was created. He is in grade K and is doing online learning at home. He would love to have the globe. Thanks.

We’re homeschooling my son, he’s in Pre-K. Since he’s not able to attend Chinese school (they went virtual, but it’s not a great format for his age), I’m taking his bilingual education in hand. Hoping to win the Chinese/English globe, but I’d be pretty happy with the English one, too! It’d just give me an opportunity to put stickers with Chinese on it so we could both learn.

We would love to use the bilingual Chinese/English globe for homeschool too! Thank you for the giveaway opportunity and review!

I am homeschooling my 2 kids. I would love to win the Chinese/English globe.

Oh this would definitely be a good addition to our home classroom!! We already have a globe but this would definitely replace our current globe!!

Ooh would love a Chinese & English globe . With the absence of overseas travel I think globes are so nice to help children learn about the world

I plan to homeschool with the help of a bilingual babysitter. I would love to use the bilingual Chinese/English globe!

Our kids are in a hybrid they go for a couple hours a day and then the rest distance

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North Andover, which won in the indoor relays title, won four outdoor events — 4x200, 4x400, pole vault, and discus  

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After their third straight league title last season, the Dragons finished second at sectionals and fourth at states.  

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Meet Lou Levine, the referee who donates all of his game checks to fighting cancer

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Many EMass coaches increasingly find video as a useful tool in evaluating and improving player performance.  

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The MIAA and the Massachuchusetts Secondary Administrators’ Association added seminars this year as school cope with a growing need.  

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Mike McCutcheon delivers for Duxbury boys’ lacrosse in OT over Hingham

McCutcheon scored the tying goal to send it into overtime, and scored the winner with 40.6 remaining in overtime.  

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EMass baseball: Catholic Memorial’s Mike Gemma headlines Players of the Week

The senior righthander fired back-to-back shutouts against Lincoln-Sudbury and BC High.  

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Lowell softball team off to a fast start with reloaded lineup

The Lowell girls’ softball team has been forced to do a bit of reshuffling this spring.  

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The Panthers’ 2-1 victory snapped the Tigers’ 28-game winning streak going back to April 28, 2018.  

Brendan Tully powers Foxborough boys’ lacrosse past Wayland

The senior midfielder (5 goals, 2 assists) eclipsed 100 career points to lead the unbeaten Warriors (7-0) to nonleague victory.  

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TEAM OF THE WEEK | CHELMSFORD BOYS’ RUGBY

Chelmsford pioneers its first rugby team

Clay Casaletto, Jake Harrison, and Patrick O’Neill helped put together a team for their senior season.  

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At Hingham, lacrosse success is programmed at youth level

The juniors on third-ranked Harbormen (7-1) went undefeated en route to three consecutive titles in Hingham Youth Lacrosse.  

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Austin Prep building a culture of success

Talented freshman class joins veterans from last year’s Division 3 champions.  

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The Abington and Billerica high offenses are off and running behind the strategy of having quick lefthanded hitters at the tops of their lineups.  

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Junior attack scored five goals to help No. 8 Eagles (3-3) hand the 10th-ranked Rockets (5-1) their first loss, 13-12, in overtime.  

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Caroline Curtis of Holbrook headlines Players of the Week

The senior starred on the mound and at the plate in the Bulldogs’ season-opening win.  

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A historic hockey marathon, a scoring machine, and other top moments from this winter.

Here are 10 moments that stood out the most in high school sports this season.

Fall 2018 All-Scholastics

Andover, MA: 9-18-18: Andover High School swimmers listen as coach Marilyn Fitzgerald (right) gives them some last minute instructions at the Greater Lawrence Technical School before a meet. (Jim Davis/Globe Staff)

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A legendary coach retires, a game-winning drive, and other top moments from this fall, spring 2018 all-scholastics.

Austin Prep players celebrate their MIAA Division 3 baseball championship win over Taconic High at Hanover Insurance Park at Fitton Field at Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts on June 23, 2018. Austin Prep defeated Taconic 9-1. Matthew Healey for The Boston Globe (SPORTS)

All-Scholastics | TOP 10 MOMENTS

The spring season got off to a soggy start, but had a brilliant finish.

Here are 10 moments from the spring high school sports season that stood out.

Winter 2018 All-Scholastics

 Angel Price-Espada kisses the championship trophy in MIAA finals, against Maynard, at Springfield College's Blake Arena. Saturday, March 17, 2018. Mark Lorenz for the Boston Globe.

2017-18 WINTER ALL-SCHOLASTICS

This winter season was filled with sportsmanship, success, and drama.

Here are 10 moments from the recently completed high school sports season that stood out.

Fall 2017 All-Scholastics

Brockton celebrates after taking home the Division 1 State Championship against Longmeadow. Mark Lorenz for the Boston Globe.

10 moments to remember from the fall high school sports season

A longtime coach stepping down, a golf controversy, and teams on streaks highlighted the season.

Thanksgiving Football

Marblehead, MA: 11-23-2017: Football waits on the sideline as Swampscott High School's football team returns too the field for second half of the Thanksgiving Day game at Marblehead High School in Marblehead, Mass., Nov.. 23, 2017. Photo/John Blanding, Boston Globe staff story/Owen Pence( 24schmarblehead )

Thanksgiving Day high school football results

Here’s a look at the scores from around Eastern Mass.

MARSHFIELD, MA- NOVEMBER 23, 2017- : Marshfield coach Lou Silva celebrates on the sideline during the 4th-quarter of the annual high school football game between Marshfield and Duxbury in Marshfield, MA on November 23, 2017. Marshfield won the 23rd annual high school football game between Marshfield and Duxbury. ( CRAIG F. WALKER/GLOBE STAFF) section: sports reporter: Marshfield 37-year coach Lou Silva

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

Leftovers from a happy thanksgiving in high school football.

There were many highs Thursday, including the bittersweet retirement of Marshfield coach Lou Silva.

Foxborough-12/1/17- Division 2 superbowl- Lincoln-Sudbury vs King Philip- King Philip's Jack Piller celebrates the superbowl win. John Tlumacki/Globe Staff(sports)

2017 high school Super Bowls results

State champions were crowned at Gillette Stadium on Friday and Saturday.

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Past seasons

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Pick any school in Eastern Massachusetts and see their rival and record on Thanksgiving Day.

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One sticky summer morning in Vermont, I entered the barn where a professional actress from a popular New England theater company would be teaching a course entitled Using Theater in an English Classroom . The premise of the class was that the content of a traditional literacy course could be taught through the vehicle of theater and that the practices used to prepare actors for performance could be applied to making English instruction more hands-on, engaging, and memorable. The first instruction we were given was to abandon our desks. We could not, the teaching artist insisted, expect our students to do things that we were not willing to do ourselves. We would not be spending the next six weeks taking notes or engaging theoretically, but working through the literature and performance process in a way that we could mirror with our students. The final exam for the course would involve staging a theatrical production as well as developing a curricular unit. As someone with no background in the performing arts, who had heard of experiential learning pedagogical models but had no idea how to deploy one in an Advanced Placement English course, I came to understand that theater was literature on its feet.

In Horace’s Compromise , Sizer ( 1984 ) asserts that among the incentives which draw adolescents to school, the “most powerful is tradition: one goes to high school because that is what one does from the age of fourteen to seventeen” (p. 59). It is saddening to think that attending school is so frequently perceived as a default position, similar to the way that many adults pessimistically view their presence at their job. Despite the fact that we spend most of our young lives in school and adult lives at work, these realms are quite often envisioned as separate from the spaces of the things we are passionate about. They are too often places for checking boxes, not for doing the things that bring us joy. Incredible learning opportunities are the ones that assist you in developing and fulfilling dreams and potential that you never knew you had. I can think of two instances—one in school and one in the workplace—where I was genuinely moved by my learning because I had the chance to apply it, to see myself becoming more efficacious in real time.

This is the kind of learning environment that I wish to cultivate and be a part of as both an educator and a learner. When I think about the investment needed to create buy-in around a project or organization, I consider the passion and care that drives a neighborhood to invest in a community theater. Community theaters are run on both individual and collective commitment. Most of the players in the space—from actors to ushers, stage managers to costume designers, set builders to board members—operate on a volunteer basis. Furthermore, these companies are capable of mounting incredible productions while operating under as many, if not more constraints in terms of time, space, money, and human capital than schools do. The productions are a labor of love for all involved and the theaters themselves are often beloved fixtures in their neighborhood. They become sources of energy and creativity in areas sometimes apart from thriving city centers and professional art scenes. I envision a school that provides something similar for its community—a space for inspiration and innovation that everyone can engage with, invest in, and be proud of.

The Globe School is designed as an independent micro middle school that would open with twenty-five students and be capped at one hundred. Democratic educational experiences rely on the ability of a program to meet the individual needs of its students, and while there is scale potential for a model like this, for quality purposes it would be critical to keep the community small at the outset. The school is not an arts academy or a school of drama, rather a program which utilizes the vehicle of a theatrical production to blend traditional pedagogy in the realm of advanced academics and arts education, community school practices, project-based learning, and narrative curriculum design to provide a unifying context for the entire academic experience. Theater is a vehicle for creating rigorous, integrative curricular experiences that allow students to apply their learning to real-world tasks and critically engage with the world around them, increasing engagement, comprehension, and retention.

Schools are not capable of generating rich learning experiences just by existing. The educational environment I have in mind is rooted in the theatrical concept of a production; rather, of producing—learning how to learn in the process of putting something together. The model put forth in this chapter is one in which student learning is centered around putting on performances. In this domain, lessons are designed in the context of the plays themselves—for example, studying the history of the place and time in which the production will be set, engaging with mathematics through drawing up production budgets, creating art through the design and construction of sets, studying literature by examining characterization for performance, revolving science experiments around the production of special effects, and so on. I envision an environment in which learning is woven seamlessly with living and the student body operates as a legitimate company.

This model is designed with the intention of building effective measures of student learning and does not aim to eradicate all traditional metrics or expectations for what a school is supposed to do. It does, however, propose changing the venue. Arts have historically been employed in incredibly effective ways, not merely to supplement, but to teach core content. Strategies for using theater in the classroom have the capability to serve in both a remediation and an advancement capacity simultaneously. The experience of acting for my own English students was the experience of living and breathing literature, and engagement with my colleagues in other disciplines evidenced how other content areas might be similarly engaged. In such an exploratory, dynamic space, students are engaged in a constant cycle of discovery and learning.

One challenge in promoting such a model is divesting people of the idea that you need to be “artsy” or a “theater kid” to benefit from it. The closest thing I have experienced to interviews in my professional career is an audition. Producing a play was some of the hardest logistical and organizational work I have ever done, and it requires the kind of critical thinking and problem-solving ability that no traditional math problem ever came close to demanding. Stage management and directing have leadership built into the job titles, and all of the most important close reading and composition techniques can be taught through table work, character development, script writing, and the creation of promotional materials. Because this school model has a service imperative built into its design, students would engage with the community to promote their work and the school as an access site for affordable art. By the time students get to their final stretch at the school, the aim is to have them generate original plays and run all of the production logistics themselves.

Ultimately, this proposal focuses on linking learning with both labor (production) and enjoyment (play). People are most successful when they are doing the things they love. It is through the pursuit of our passions that we carve out our place in the world. When students enter a grade level “behind,” the instinct in the sector is to continuously expose them to “back-to-basics” techniques that often fail to inspire great advancements in learning or make them competitive with peers that are operating in far less restrictive spaces which promote creativity and self-direction. The Globe School prioritizes creating authentic learning experiences for students which meet both traditional academic standards and the demands of a modern workplace that requires creativity and a well-defined sense of self to adequately navigate.

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Each unit would be constructed around a production that the students would ultimately perform for the community. Initially, a teaching team with diverse experience in discrete content, theater arts, and curriculum planning would develop the units. The expectation is that students would progress to the point where they could write their own pieces for performance, design their own units around these pieces, and direct younger students through all components of production. The school would produce four plays in a year and students would be assigned one of four teams—the production team, the company, the technical crew, and the business team—for each performance. Over the course of the academic year, every student would have worked on each team.

To illustrate this idea, consider a unit designed around Arthur Miller’s The Crucible . In its time, the play was highly controversial, and for this production, all the students would attend contextual seminars. That is, specialists—possibly from the design team, but preferably local university professors or historians—would teach them about McCarthyism and blacklisting. Where possible, the school would engage the world as an extension of the classroom, perhaps with a trip to Salem, so that students could learn in a more impactful context than a lecture hall.

Students on the production team would be responsible for developing the vision for the play. This team consists of the students directing, producing, stage managing, and devising the vision for the set and costumes. They might begin by undergoing a book study in which they ultimately move past the plot and contextual information into a discussion of the play’s major themes. What kinds of social and political circumstances led to both the witch trials and the McCarthy hearings? Are there situations in modern times when fear and paranoia drive people to break the rules of a democratic society? A critical component of the preparation and work of all teams would be engaging community members in relevant fields wherever possible.

The school might invite someone who works on devising concepts for movies or plays to help the team decide on the angle they want to pursue for the show. The students could choose to explore multiple themes for the production or hone in one—perhaps the marginalization of certain groups in society. The design team could engage additional professionals throughout this discovery process, such as a lawyer to discuss due process and why the burden of proof is supposed to be on the court and not defendants. Discussions might also be crafted to explore morality questions (enter a philosophy professor) around “doing the right thing” and what choices the students themselves might make if their careers or lives were on the line.

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Being on the company side of the performance would involve immersive acting training more like a standard theater course. Ensemble building activities and theater games might be standard fare within the school, but students focusing on performing in the unit’s production would experience the most of this kind of exercise. The type of script study required for performance requires engaging with the close reading practices that are the backbone of literature classes but involves approaching literacy in a kinesthetic way. In addition to actual performance and elocution training, these students would do in-depth character analyzes and empathy training, considering (in conjunction with the director) which of the many angles on their character they might want to take and writing reflections that provide a rationale for their preferred interpretations.

Another aim would be to expose students to as much theater as possible in this stage—perhaps reading plays across genres and attending performances of them. The design does not take for granted that the students will have any, let alone extensive, theater training. Their time in the company would also prompt students to consider how the work they are doing as actors might serve their future career—interviewing, pitching, collaborating, etc. Students in the company might also be exposed to the kinds of learning business students engage with in organizational behavior classes as being in a cast is the ultimate team experience. After each performance, the cast and production team might engage in a talk-back where they answered community members’ questions about what they learned in the process of making the show, developing their character, etc.

If the semester a student spends on the production and company side of performances are slightly more literature and history heavy, their experience on the tech and business teams might tend a bit more toward the content of traditional math and science courses. This is why one student would travel between all four teams over the course of a year—to make for a comprehensive experience overall. Students might engage with local designers, sewing experts, hairdressers, and make-up artists as part of the process of devising what hair, make-up, and clothing would look like in the chosen time period of the production. Local architects and construction experts could be engaged as well as set designers to teach lessons on the mathematics involved in designing and building. Students working on this team would need to familiarize themselves with the vision of the production team and collaborate with them in order to design a set that embodies the focal themes.

They would also be part of the building process and might engage with lighting experts, painters, musicians, and sound techs throughout the process of determining the setting, lighting, and music. The act of generating a world for the stage also requires empathy work. The crew, in conjunction with the actors, could conduct interviews with individuals who were alive during the Red Scare or survey the community to find out how people feel they would respond to a difficult choice between the more noble course of action and their own well-being. Additionally, interesting science labs could be developed around the process of generating special effects for the production.

Work on the business team might begin with budgeting. What resources are necessary to make the production work? Where are the funds coming from? Financial planners could speak to the students about how to build and manage a budget, or the school might invite local business owners to share their budgeting practices with students. Another primary function of this team would be promoting the performance—e.g. coordinating with store owners for the actors to do a pop-up scene in front of a popular shop to get people’s attention, developing multimedia advertising campaigns. The productions would be inexpensive (if not entirely free) to the community, but this team might develop a program in which they sell advertising space to local companies.

The business team would also be responsible for marketing materials—production photos, headshots, helping the actors develop acting resumes—all things which, of course, they would first be trained in themselves. They might also be responsible for writing newspaper and online articles about the shows and managing the school’s social media platforms. These students might have lessons in accounting, economics, and marketing with the ultimate responsibility for understanding the school’s finances well enough to determine relevant budgets for the season.

The goal is to arrive at a place where older students work with the design team to develop curriculum, ultimately getting to a point where they are working through the challenges of running a small business on their own as the adults observe, facilitate, serve, and support as needed. How incredible would it be if community teachers and the design team ultimately became a plus, but not necessary because the more experienced students could teach the younger students the basics of putting on a meaningful performance and how to find the information that they do not already know. This school will be built on an empathy narrative but would empower students to decide with their unit design how that plays out—how they teach and learn with and within the community they are a part of.

The performance review model of the school would require students on each team to sit down with their advisor in advance of every unit and set goals according to which team they have been assigned to. Because the school will initially house so few students, it is part of the advisors’ job to really know the students’ schedules and what the expectations are for them from the various instructors they engage with in each unit. In addition to debriefing the production overall, advisors would go through individual student’s contributions to the production and the various ways in which the final product was dependent on them to be successful. Working on teams is often quite a motivating factor for students. It is one thing to receive an incomplete on a paper that only affects your grade, quite another to choose to skip an assignment that has implications for a larger group.

Additionally, there is learning in the process of understanding that meaningful work contributes to a context larger than oneself. This is a model that really battles “busy work.” If what you are working on does not serve the production in some capacity, you probably should not be doing it. Assessment of a student in the company would look rather different than assessing a student on the tech team. For the unit on The Crucible , a student in the company might be evaluated on research they have conducted around the Salem trials and McCarthyism, artifacts (possibly write-ups) which reflect character analysis, video footage from different nights of the performance or from the beginning to the end of the rehearsal process to see how their elocution, empathetic portrayal, etc. has improved over the course of the project.

They might further be assessed on joint work with the production team who developed the concept for the production and on how effectively they engaged with the rest of the company as a team player. For their part, the production team might be assessed on, in addition to the research they do around creative interpretation, their organizational and management capacities. These latter qualities do not frequently show up on standardized tests, but they are integral to success in the workplace and if a student is to successfully and autonomously navigate a university setting. Such a model has the potential to prepare students not only to read and write better but also to become stronger leaders and take greater responsibility for their own learning.

Tech team projects could be less abstract—did you do the math or chemistry correctly in order to construct this set or generate such and such special effects, etc.—but not necessarily. Perhaps they spend the unit cycle additionally engaged in studying aesthetics or psychology and considering how costume designs and the set will impact the audience emotionally. From there they might engage in a presentation or talk-back with the community after one of the performances around what they have learned and why they made the choices that they made. Through this process they would be assessed on the quality of their research, the application of that research, presentation skills, and how responsive they can be to questions based on the depth of their knowledge.

Similarly, for every concrete task the business team can be assessed on—their budget, their advertisements—there are so many other less concrete things that could be evaluated. Perhaps one student on the marketing team has set a goal with her advisor that she wants to develop greater tech literacy. One of the projects she might be assigned and assessed on is creating a video trailer for the performance that will be published on the school’s website for marketing purposes. Perhaps another tells his advisor that he wants to be in charge of arranging the logistics around a promotional event. He could be assessed based on local participation in and response to the event as well as how organized he was in pulling it together from an operational capacity.

One way in which theater is a good vehicle for an academic unit is that there is a built-in assessment at the end—the production itself. From the standpoint of investment, I have found that when I employed theater even on a small scale in my English classroom, the plays were interesting motivational tools, even for the students who were initially skeptical. Note that these students, unlike those who would presumably attend The Globe School, had not opted into the theater experience in signing up for my course. But when I told them that a pop-up performance was going to be performed for freshmen, my senior classes invested more readily. Suddenly, an assignment with very few parameters yielded incredible props, elaborate costumes, innovative character interpretations, and choreographed dance numbers.

This is to say that if we are designing run-of-the-mill assessments because that is what we feel we need to police learning or ensure that students will invest in rigorous work, it is a poor excuse. There are much more engaging and creative ways of generating buy-in—whether it is by building peer approval into the outcome (quite resonant in the teen experience and at play in the situation above) or engendering a true passion for the activity. Standardized testing is an assessment model that allows for the evaluation of many individuals in an efficient way. The production as an output is a much more nuanced assessment.

In Mehta’s ( 2014 ) article on deeper learning, he uses theater as an example although he looks at it from a different perspective than outlined here. He thought about how theater programs operate like apprenticeships for a craft that exists in the real world and described how core subjects often fail to make their practice similarly relevant. With this model, I propose that theater might serve as a vehicle for making all subjects relevant. At the end of the day, a school is only going to be able to teach students a finite number of things. They might as well be things students really want to learn. Otherwise, with the exception of a relatively random smattering, students five or ten years down the line probably will not remember most of what they were taught. The Globe School seeks to generate a learning experience that is impossible to forget.

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Supreme Court offers possible road map for schools to diversify top programs

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va., pictured on Feb. 7, 2022. In 2020, the school was named in a lawsuit after changing its admissions policies, which resulted in more diversity.

When the Supreme Court allowed an elite magnet school in Northern Virginia to continue using a new system for admissions aimed at diversifying its student body last week, other schools were watching.

Across the country, districts have been unsettled by the makeup of their top academic programs, especially scant numbers of Black and Hispanic students, and many have implemented new admissions systems. But a question loomed: Would this be legal given the Supreme Court’s decisions, including its ruling last year outlawing affirmative action for higher education?

Now schools may have something of a road map: Taking race into account is verboten, but consideration of neighborhood, socioeconomics, and other factors might be all right.

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“It’s a huge relief,” said Halley Potter, senior fellow at the Century Foundation, which advocates for school integration policies. “It means that districts around the country can continue to use a full set of tools around socioeconomics to create diverse school environments.”

This approach also may represent the future for colleges and universities, as they hunt alternative routes to building diverse classes following the high court’s affirmative action ruling.

“All those universities, they want to promote diversity, but they also don’t want to be the defendant in that future case,” said Sonja Starr, a law professor at the University of Chicago who closely followed the Virginia case.

K-12 school districts have been grappling with how to foster diversity without overtly using race since 2007, when the Supreme Court ruled that school districts may not use race as a factor in assigning students to schools. But until last year, colleges were allowed to consider race as one component in admissions decisions.

Starr predicted that many colleges will consider similar race-neutral policies that factor in socioeconomics like many K-12 districts have done — now with the implicit blessing of the Supreme Court.

On Tuesday, the court announced that it would not review a challenge to the admissions system used by Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, a prestigious magnet school in Fairfax County, Va., passing up an opportunity to consider and possibly strike down the district’s effort to diversify the school.

For years, the school, known as TJ, offered admission based on a notoriously difficult entrance exam, and its student population was overwhelmingly Asian, with few Black or Hispanic students. In 2020, the district implemented a system that removed the test and an entrance fee, and reserved seats for students from every Fairfax middle school — geographic diversity that also resulted in more racial diversity.

A parent lawsuit alleged that the policy discriminated against Asian American students. A lower court judge sided with the parents, calling it an illegal act of “racial balancing.” But an appellate court reversed the decision. The parents’ coalition then appealed to the Supreme Court.

The case has been carefully watched by school integration advocates across the country, who feared that today’s conservative court might strike down efforts at diversity even if they did not overtly consider race.

Richard D. Kahlenberg, who has long urged schools to use socioeconomic factors — but not race — in admissions, was both relieved and encouraged by last week’s court action. A decision disallowing racially neutral plans simply because one of their goals was racial diversity would have been “a disaster,” he said. It could have affected not just elite magnet programs like TJ’s, but 171 school districts across the country identified as considering socioeconomics in student assignment policies.

“If you’re going to have a true meritocracy — finding the most talented students — you have to consider not only their test scores and academic achievement, but also what hurdles they’ve had to overcome in life,” said Kahlenberg, an expert witness on behalf of the group that successfully challenged race-based affirmative action policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. “It’s more meritocratic to consider socioeconomics than to simply ignore the realities of the way economic class impacts opportunity.”

In recent years, and particularly during the period of racial reckoning following the 2020 killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, school leaders from San Francisco to Boston grew concerned by student demographics at their elite academic programs. But plans to change admission rules have faced legal and political challenges from conservatives and others who argue that such re-engineering amounts to an attack on merit and excellence.

Even efforts to make these programs more economically diverse, critics charge, are actually aimed at racial diversity and are therefore unconstitutional.

In many cases, "these are not really race neutral but done with intent to change racial dynamics at school," said Erin Wilcox, an attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation, which filed the suit challenging TJ's admission policies on behalf of the Coalition for TJ, a parent group.

Wilcox said that despite the setback in the TJ case, her group will continue to press legal challenges to several other similar school policies. While the court declined to hear the challenge to TJ’s program, it did not rule on the merits of the case or offer an explanation for its reasoning.

Wilcox said her group is not deterred by losses to date. “We need to keep trying to find the right case,” she said. “This is not an issue we’re prepared to give up on just yet.”

Elsewhere, some of the controversy around these changes is fading as school leaders settle on plans that represent something of a middle ground between focusing only on rewarding excellence and fostering racial and other diversity.

In San Francisco, the school board faced backlash after it shifted the admission process for its highly regarded Lowell High School. For many years, the city had relied on grades and an admissions test, but like other districts, it changed course during the height of the pandemic, when it was not possible to administer tests in the same way.

In fall 2020, the district announced that it would use the ranked-choice lottery system for the coming year, the same system used for the city’s other high schools. The move appealed to those concerned about the lack of racial diversity at the school and, following a high-profile incident of racism at the school in early 2021, the board said the change would be permanent. The move was welcomed by many in the Black community but prompted a huge outcry from the city’s Chinese American community, who felt targeted, and from many Lowell alumni and parents, who argued that excellence would be sacrificed.

After a change in the school board, the lottery was scrapped and a merit-based system was restored. But last fall, Superintendent Matt Wayne proposed a middle ground — a lottery among those who have earned a certain grade-point average, which he said could help diversify the school.

It, too, has drawn opponents. But others who fought the earlier change appear open to it.

“This may have promise if it’s done right,” said Siva Raj, who helped lead a successful effort in 2022 to recall three school board members, partly over their handling of this and other racially charged issues.

And he said the district still has work ahead to repair trust with parents. But the general idea could work, he said.

“There does seem to be an openness to this,” he said. “Actually there’s a lot more consensus here than people appreciate.”

In Boston, too, there have been several shifts in policy affecting the district’s three exam schools, which traditionally admitted students based on grades and entrance test scores.

In 2021, the test was removed and applicants were evaluated based on a combination of grades and neighborhood, with high-scoring students from every ZIP code admitted. That system was upheld by the First Circuit Appellate Court in December. The Pacific Legal Foundation is seeking Supreme Court review.

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Judges have granted restraining orders or injunctions in the past week against two of the six school districts Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued over claims that they're illegally using public money to advocate for candidates or policies in the Texas primary elections.

The accusations come after last year's state legislative session left many school districts financially frustrated as lawmakers didn't pass meaningful increases to public education spending with Texas schools facing the lowest inflation-adjusted state and local funding since 2020, according to an American-Statesman analysis .

The Texas House also rejected school choice proposals that would have used public money to pay for private education, which were championed by Gov. Greg Abbott, leaving Republican members who voted against the governor's legislative priority vulnerable to his wrath and campaign war chest at the ballot box.

A 429 th District Court judge in Collin County granted a restraining order against the Frisco school district and a judge in the 17 th District Court in Tarrant County granted an injunction against the Castleberry school district, Paxton announced Thursday night.

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Paxton also brought cases against the Denison, Denton and Aledo school districts in North Texas and the Huffman district near Houston. The Castleberry district is near Fort Worth, and the Frisco district is north of Dallas.

The six lawsuits largely center on accusations that school district administrators encouraged employees or community members to vote for candidates who are pro-public education.

For example, Paxton accused administrators at a Denton elementary school of sending emails to the staff encouraging people to “vote for candidates who ‘support public schools’ and, apparently, who are against ‘vouchers,’” according to the lawsuit.

School choice, or vouchers, dominated Texas education policy discussions in 2023. Abbott threw his political weight behind school choice, touring the state to advocate for the proposal and even asking religious leaders to push for the measure from the pulpit. The efforts to pass the program died during the regular and subsequent special sessions last year, and Abbott vowed to oust from office the GOP House members who voted against school choice.

A coalition of Democratic and mostly rural Republicans House members concerned that a school choice program would syphon money away from already cash-strapped school districts successfully blocked the measure from advancing out of the lower chamber.

Last week, campaign finance reports showed Abbott spent $4.7 million in the past month to back GOP primary challengers to incumbents who voted against school choice. The governor's spending blitz on campaign advertisements, text message drives and polling came after he received in December a  $6 million donation  from Jeffrey Yass, a Pennsylvania billionaire and leading advocate for school choice issues.

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While there's nothing wrong with school administrators encouraging community members to vote in general, they can't use school resources to ask people to vote for a specific candidate or ballot measure, said Jim Whitton, an attorney who practices school law with Brackett & Ellis PC in Fort Worth.

The most typical time schools face accusations of electioneering is during school bond referendums, which are ballot measures on which voters decide whether to pay for large projects such as campus renovations and construction, Whitton said.

"The schools must be very careful that any materials they put out about a bond election is strictly factual," Whitton said. "You cannot put out anything that's persuasive."

Typically, if someone accuses a school district of wrongfully using school resources to advocate for candidates or measures, the Texas Ethics Commission sends a warning and the district stops the activity, he said.

Advocacy questions have previously created tension between state lawmakers and local governments, such as school districts, counties and cities.

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    BOOK AT THE GLOBE. BOOK IN YOUR SCHOOL / ONLINE. Information for your visit. All workshops can be tailored to cater for a range of Special Educational Needs and requirements. Detailed information can be found in our FAQs. Please also read our FAQs for site specific information (directions, on-site food and beverage provisions etc).

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    LEARN. Access free resources and browse opportunities and events for schools, students and teachers, including our programme of workshops and courses. Our workshops, storytelling sessions, CPD and projects for schools can be delivered online, as well as in your school and on site at Shakespeare's Globe. No matter whether you are visiting us ...

  5. Secondary schools

    The day includes an introductory tour of the Globe theatre (30 minutes), a contextual lecture (60 minutes) and a practical workshop (90 minutes). We are able to tailor the content around the desired learning outcomes of your group. This session can be delivered on-site at the Globe, in a space of your choice within your school, or online.

  6. Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank

    Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank is Shakespeare's Globe's flagship partnership for secondary schools.. Each year we stage a dynamic 90-minute production of a key curriculum text on the iconic stage of the Globe Theatre. It's created especially for young people and designed to help students from KS3 upwards as they build towards their GCSEs.

  7. School Trips to Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

    The Department for Education advises schools to always look for the LOtC Quality Badge when choosing a school travel provider. We organise unique school trips to Shakespeare's Globe Theatre as an official 'Friend of the Globe.'. Call our friendly team of experts on 0845 293 7970.

  8. Globe Theatre

    The Globe Theatre you see today in London is the third Globe. The first opened in 1599 and was built by the Lord Chamberlain's Men, the company that William Shakespeare wrote for and part-owned. We think that the first play Shakespeare wrote for the original Globe was Julius Caesar in spring 1599.

  9. Virtual tour

    VIRTUAL TOUR. Everyone, no matter where they are in the world, can now walk around Shakespeare's Globe with our virtual tour and 360 iOS app. Use this page or download the app to tour the Globe Theatre from the comfort of your own home. Our interactive 360 degrees virtual tour uses photos, videos and audible wonder to guide you along the way.

  10. Globe Theatre

    Globe Theatre, famous London theatre in which after 1599 the plays of William Shakespeare were performed.. Early in 1599 Shakespeare, who had been acting with the Lord Chamberlain's Men since 1594, paid into the coffers of the company a sum of money amounting to 12.5 percent of the cost of building the Globe. He did so as a chief shareholder in the company, and by doing so he helped to ...

  11. The GLOBE Academy

    The GLOBE Academy is a dual language immersion charter school serving Kindergarten-8th Grade students in the DeKalb County School District of Metro Atlanta, Georgia. We invite you to learn more about how we provide Global Learning Opportunities through Balanced Education. Admissions. Tours. Give.

  12. For Schools

    School in the Park is a multi-visit museum program that blends formal and informal learning by utilizing the rich resources of museums and educational institutions in Balboa Park. The program is designed with a standards-based curriculum to integrate what is learned at school with authentic learning connections from the Park institutions ...

  13. The Globe Players- Bringing high quality theatre into schools for 50 years

    If you would love to have a visit from The Globe Players, but your school is outside our usual touring area (London and the surrounding counties) then please send us an email to register your interest. Welcome Michael Rosen, our new patron! December 21, 2021 March 16, 2022 1 Comment.

  14. GLOBE Schools

    The school location is based on the latitude, longitude, and elevation of your school. In order to visit your school's page, move your mouse over the "Go To" on the top bar and select your school from the list. Verify the location of your school on the "Organization Map" on the bottom-right corner of the page on your school's page.

  15. The Boston Globe

    New England's best source for news, sports, opinion and entertainment. The Globe brings you breaking news, Spotlight Team investigations, year-round coverage of the Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics ...

  16. Best World Globes for Kids and Students to Learn Geography

    Cultural awareness: Kids can "visit" different cultures and people worldwide. This can help kids develop global awareness and respect for diversity. Interactive learning: In a world dominated by screens, a world globe allows kids to engage with the physical environment around them. Plus, spinning a world globe is timeless fun!

  17. School Globes

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  18. Back to School Around the World

    Write a letter to a kid living in one of the countries above. In your letter, explain your back-to-school traditions and include two questions, based on what you read, about what going back to school is like in their country. Send your letter to "Back to School Contest" by November 1, 2022. Five winners will each receive a Storyworks prize.

  19. Globeducate

    4. We prepare each student to be a global citizen who can shape the world. The world is changing at an incredible pace. Today´s students will only succeed in the world of tomorrow if they are prepared for the challenges they will face. In addition to providing a world-class education, Globeducate schools ensure that our students develop skills ...

  20. High schools

    St. Mary's, Bishop Fenwick programs share in a rapid rise. Mark Lorenz for the Globe. The private schools have followed a similiar blueprint in the growth and development of their players, programs. Boys' lacrosse Top 20 rankings. Concord-Carlisle's Cole Pascucci headlines Players of the Week.

  21. International Schools in Moscow

    The International School of Moscow. The ISM is a world-leading international school in Moscow for children aged 3-18 years old, bringing together students of more than 60 nationalities to create an exceptional and inspiring learning environment. Our high-quality teachers guide our students to achieve outstanding results, opening doors to the ...

  22. The Globe School

    The Globe School is designed as an independent micro middle school that would open with twenty-five students and be capped at one hundred. Democratic educational experiences rely on the ability of a program to meet the individual needs of its students, and while there is scale potential for a model like this, for quality purposes it would be critical to keep the community small at the outset.

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    By Aaron Pressman Globe Staff, Updated February 27, 2024, 11:48 a.m. Boston venture capitalist Jeff Bussgang, who is also a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, trained an AI chatbot to ...

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