FREE ‘William Shakespeare’ topical pack for primary schools
Looking for an easy way to introduce Shakespeare during Shakespeare Week?
Our free William Shakespeare topical pack is designed especially for primary schools and gives you a ready-made starting point, with engaging activities that help children explore Shakespeare’s life, language and works in an accessible way.
Perfect for whole-class teaching or small group work, the pack links directly to Busy Things activities and provides enough structure to support learning while still leaving room for creativity. It’s a great option if you’re short on planning time but still want Shakespeare Week to be engaging and memorable.
What’s in the William Shakespeare topical pack?
The pack includes:
- A William Shakespeare fact sheet
- A classifying activity, helping children understand which plays are comedies, tragedies and histories
- A Shakespearean phrase-matching activity
- Worksheets based on the play, Romeo and Juliet
- A sonnet-writing activity
- Well-known quotes from the works of Shakespeare
Summary
Our William Shakespeare topical pack offers a simple, flexible way to bring Shakespeare into your classroom, with activities you can use straight away.
You can download the pack for free whether you’re already using Busy Things, currently on a trial, or completely new to us.
If you’d like even more ideas, you might find our companion blog post, ‘5 Fun, Classroom-Ready Activities for Shakespeare Week’, useful. It’s packed with additional teaching ideas and links to our engaging, online activities.
And if you’d like full access to all our Shakespeare activities, plus thousands of curriculum-linked resources across literacy, maths, science and more, we’d love you to take a free 28-day trial.