Shakespeare's School

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William Shakespeare's old school in Stratford.

A look around the school that William Shakespeare attended in Stratford upon Avon, with a look at teaching methods in Tudor schools.
From: Zig Zag Tudor Life Children
First broadcast : 21 September 1998

Teachers' notes

Age Group : 7-9

Subject : History

Topic : Tudors and Stuarts

Keywords : Tudors, Tudor schools, Tudor education, William Shakespeare, Elizabethean schools

Notes : Points to study - would pupils like to be at school in Shakespeare's time? What are the differences between them and now? Can use to study life of Shakespeare as well as Tudor history.


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