The trip was linked to this year’s guiding question in English: ‘Where are we?’  which examines the importance of place in literature. To deepen this connection, students participated in interactive drama workshops led by actors from Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, specifically tailored to their current study of ‘Macbeth’. This was complemented by a guided tour of the theatre, where we were fortunate enough to witness rehearsals for the upcoming production of Bertolt Brecht’s ‘Mother Courage and Her Children’.

Alongside these literary explorations, Geography students applied their classroom knowledge of rivers to the Thames and explored how London has changed temporally and spatially through fieldwork at both Battersea Power Station and Bankside. A riverboat trip between these two landmarks provided a vantage point from which to observe the activity and physical transformations along the River Thames, offering a real-world perspective on how urban environments shift over time.