Category: Teachers & CPD
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Lady Macbeth: Villain or Misunderstood?
Is Lady Macbeth really the “fiend-like queen” we remember? Explore gender, grief, motherhood, ambition and performance to discover a far more complicated woman behind one of Shakespeare’s most notorious characters.
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What Is Shakespeare Week (And Why It’s Worth Celebrating in Every Classroom)
Free Shakespeare Week classroom activities for KS3 and KS4, including a villain writing lesson, tutor time quiz, insult generator and downloadable resource pack.
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Shakespeare Ambassadors: Student Leadership in Action
Something rather special has happened. My Shakespeare Ambassadors were featured in the latest 2024/25 RSC Associate Schools Programme Impact Report from the Royal Shakespeare Company. If I’m honest, I hesitated about sharing it. Teaching is rarely about recognition — it’s about the small, daily shifts: a student finding their voice, a reluctant reader standing up…
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Macbeth Motifs
Campfire Revision Macbeth Motif Postcard Set Welcome to the next instalment of Campfire Revision — a set of beautifully rustic, student-friendly postcard flashcards designed to make Macbeth’s key motifs simple, memorable, and easy to revise.These cards can be used in lessons as quick wins, for retrieval practice, Do Now starters, or as a printable set…
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A Macbeth WHOOSH
A Fun, Low-Stakes Way to Learn (or Revise!) Macbeth Whoosh is a lively, drama-based activity used to introduce students to a play by walking them through the plot in a quick, interactive and fully accessible way — no prior knowledge required. It’s fast, physical and brilliantly memorable. I also love using WHOOSH as a revision…
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Why Does Shakespeare Keep Calling on Neptune?
Understanding Shakespeare’s use of Neptune and Its Meaning in three key texts This post explores the Shakespeare Neptune meaning and why the playwright repeatedly invokes the Roman god across his works. Shakespeare doesn’t reference classical gods by accident. When he calls on Neptune, the Roman god of the sea, storms, and power, he’s drawing on…
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How to Make Shakespeare Easy: My Top 3 Teaching Hacks
Top 3 tips to hook students from the outset
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Taylor Swift & Shakespeare: Star-Crossed Lovers and Silenced Voices
When I tell my students that Shakespeare and Taylor Swift have more in common than they think, I usually get one of two reactions: wide-eyed curiosity, or a very dramatic teenage eye-roll. But stay with me. Because once you start to dig into Taylor’s lyrics, you’ll find echoes of Shakespeare everywhere: tragic love stories, betrayed…