The RSC welcomes schools to our productions to support children’s learning and build a lifelong love of the performing arts and Shakespeare. We reach over half a million young people and work with over 1,000 schools each year, bringing our evidence based and award-winning learning techniques into classrooms. We seek to offer affordable tickets to schools to minimise barriers to attendance - we also seek to balance being available to work with any schools that want to, whilst ensuring those schools who otherwise wouldn’t be able to access our work are able to. Prices for private schools are at a slightly higher rate due to the differences in budgets that are available between state-maintained schools and schools in the independent sector, a policy which we have maintained for several years. However, we also recognise that there are many different kinds of independent schools and for smaller schools, as well as for schools that focus on children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities, we are looking at how we can make appropriate adjustments, as part of our work to regularly review our pricing policies.