Shakespeare 4 Kidz News

Myton Park Primary School in Stockton-on-Tees has won our "Win £1,000 For Your School" Competition.

Year 5 teacher Vikki Boddy entered our on-line competition to win £1,000 and it was her entry that was drawn out of our "very expensive" top hat during a break in rehearsals on Friday 26th October.

Vikki correctly answered the three questions:

1. Our current show is Shakespeare 4 Kidz HAMLET
2. Our Put on a Play Packs (excl. Hamlet) cost £200 (net of VAT)
3. Shakespeare 4 Kidz was founded in 1997

The winning prize can be spent in any way the school wishes. Congratulations to Myton Park School and thanks to everyone who entered our competition.

A video of the grand draw taking place is below.

The draw for the winner of the "Shakespeare 4 Kidz Win £1,000 For Your School" competition will be made by Hamlet (Mr Paul Parris) on Friday 26th October!!.

The cast are taking an opportunity during the autumn half-term break to commence initial rehearsals for Shakespeare 4 Kidz THE TEMPEST which joins the tour in January. Paul will draw the winner of the main prize and fellow cast members will draw the winners of the 20 runner-up prizes of S4K DVDs.

The winning schools will be published on the website on Monday 29th October.

James Backway, our Hamlet in the Junior Mitre Players workshop production of Shakespeare 4 Kidz HAMLET earlier this year, has made his West End debut in The Sound of Music. 14 year-old James has joined the cast as Friedrich, one of the Von Trapp troupe.

As you would expect, James' family - along with several Mitre Players - were at the Palladium to see how he looked in a pair of curtains and whether he knew that "Doh!" was not just a Homer Simpson expletive. Depite seeing Mitre Player Mary Holton (the one in the bright yellow!) sitting slap bang in the middle of the front row when making his first entrance, we are delighted to hear that mountains were duly climbed and favourite things remembered. Connie did OK too!

S4K are also pleased to see that 13 year-old Peter O'Brien from Reigate is in the current cast. Peter has played the Indian Prince in our UK touring version of Shakespeare 4 Kidz A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.

Well done to you both!

The Set Scene Sections for the 2008 Key Stage 3 SAT have been announced by the QCA.

The 2008 set sections for Richard III are as follows:

Act 1, Scene 2, lines 33 to 186
‘Stay, you that bear the corpse, and set it down.’
to
‘I will not be thy executioner.’
AND
Act 4, Scene 4, lines 199 to 342
‘Stay, madam. I must talk a word with you.’
to
‘Can make seem pleasing to her tender years?’ 

The 2008 set sections for Much Ado About Nothing are as follows:

Act 4, Scene 1, lines 196 to 325
‘Pause awhile,’to‘dead; and so, farewell.’
AND
Act 5, Scene 4 (whole scene)
‘Did I not tell you she was innocent?’
to
‘Strike up, pipers!’ 

The 2008 set sections for The Tempest are as follows:

Act 3, Scene 2 (whole scene)
‘Tell not me! When the butt is out, we will drink water –’
to
‘Wilt come? I’ll follow, Stephano.’
AND
Act 4, Scene 1, lines 139 to 262
‘I had forgot that foul conspiracy’
to
‘Follow, and do me service.’