On Monday, 9th March, our 5th Year students attended a screening of their Leaving Certificate play, Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’. This trip provided students with a valuable opportunity to experience a screening of Shakespeare’s tragedy, performed live on stage. It supplied each student with a much deeper analysis of key features and aspects of Leaving Certificate material. Movies@Swords Pavilions opened its theatre for us, especially. Students thoroughly enjoyed the performance and reported a much clearer and better understanding of the play, from seeing the dramatic tension, language, characters’ interactions and their relationships all brought to life. This outing supported our students in further developing their learning with a more significant understanding of the themes, plot and all dramatic techniques performed, giving them a greater analysis of the Shakespearean text as they dive deeper into the Leaving Certificate English course of study. This puts them in a much greater position as we head towards summer assessments and mock exams next year.
Thanks to Ms Porter, Ms Cronin, Ms Cummings and Ms Farrell, who organised the trip and supervised the students.
