GLT: Shakespeare

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I have been a Head of English for more than a decade at both maintained and independent schools. Leading the rollout of HPL at my current school, Ellesmere College, Shropshire, has been an interesting and rewarding challenge as it has given us a coherent pedagogical framework that explains much of what we knew, instinctively, works well in the classroom. It has also given us license to work with the students in a creative manner which, for many (if not all) of us was why we went into teaching in the first place.

As well as leading on HPL, I am also in charge of the Navy Section of the CCF and head of one of the College’s four academic and sporting competitive houses.

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Daniel Bottom

Shakespeare

360 days ago

The recent BBC documentary, Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius, has proved to be popular with students in my school. Year 10s, considering whether Lady Macbeth could be viewed as a fourth witch, found the third episode really useful as it explains, far better than I can, why Shakespeare used witches to appeal to James I, why it was critical that the play was a success and so on. That said, the first episode's gory account of 'Titus Andronicus' certainly got them looking at things differently...

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