Aspen and A Midsummer Night's Dream

In year 5 this week, we have started a new text, Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In order to get immersed into this test we decided to make potions as we were inspired by the love potion that features in this play. 

Firstly we wrote instructions on how to make our potions. We included possible side effects such as might cause mild death, or extra limbs may grow. We were given a list of possible ingredients, these included:

Dragon blood, dragon drool, Ground Bicorn horn, Pure concentrated Beatle juice, Powdered Basilisk skin, Tentacle acid, Pond water, Hangman’s bone powder, Unicorn horn and Asphodel. 

Then we recycled plastic bottles, decorating them to turn them into potion bottles, adding labels with our potions names.   The last step was to create our actual potions. We thoroughly enjoyed creating our instructions for brewing these potions and then making the bottles and potions themselves. 

Since then, we have been discovering the plot, rein acting scene, writing hashtag summaries and have started to watch the CBeebies version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.  Through these activities we have been learning about the characters personalities. We have begun to delve into the complicated way that the romances played out throughout this comedy. 

So far, this has been an exciting experience for year 5 and we’re all really looking forward to what this text will bring us next. 

Written by Rebekah, Lucas and Harvey