EMC CPD Face-to-Face: Refresh Your Teaching of Hamlet for A Level Literature
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Availability -
Places available
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Price - £265 per place
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Location - EMC, SE1 8QW
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Duration - 10-3.30pm
A cross-specification course to reinvigorate both your own reading of Hamlet and your teaching strategies. The course will provide a wide range of critical and creative approaches to analysing the text, balancing close reading with an overview of the whole, in its literary, generic and dramatic context. The day will explore strategies both for getting the play read for a first time and revisiting it at revision. Professor Emma Smith, University of Oxford, will join us to give a lecture and explore your questions.
Areas covered on the day include:
- Creative and critical approaches to reading and analysing the text
- Effective ways of engaging with criticism to extend responses
- The play in its literary and generic context – critical engagement with tragedy
- Revisiting the play for revision.
NB: This is a repeat course.
How to get to the English and Media Centre, 44 Webber Street, London, SE1 8QW
Once you are on Webber Street, look out for the big gates and a sign saying CLPE. You’ll see EMC’s sign to the right of the entrance.
National Rail:
- Waterloo and Waterloo East are within 10 minutes walk
- London Blackfriars is a 10-15 minutes walk
Underground:
- Southwark on the Jubilee Line
- Waterloo on the Jubilee, Bakerloo, Waterloo & City and Northern Lines
Buses:
- The following bus routes go close to Webber Street: 1, 139, 168, 171, 172, 344
I am truly inspired. The course helped build my confidence, stretched my mind and granted me the permission I needed to think k outside the box. Unfortunately it also made me want to remain the student - loved it!
Era Larkou, The Streetly Academy, EMC CPD Face-to-Face Spring 2025: Refresh Your Teaching of Hamlet for A Level Literature (13.2.2025)
A fantastic course, hugely enjoyable, informative and helpful! I thought all the presenters were brilliant. Thank you!!
Hazel Dempster, School 21, EMC CPD Face-to-Face Spring 2025: Refresh Your Teaching of Hamlet for A Level Literature (13.2.2025)
Excellent. Fun and varied and informative.
Thomas Sillito, Thomas Tallis School, EMC CPD Face-to-Face Spring 2025: Refresh Your Teaching of Hamlet for A Level Literature (13.2.2025)
Emma Barker
Emma Barker worked as an English teacher for many years in London schools, leading each of the key stages before becoming Head of English. At the EMC since 2016, she ran the English with media/drama PGCE course until 2023 and continues to teach the English side of EMC's Media with English PGCE with Goldsmiths, as well as working on student conferences and A Level courses at the Centre
Lucy Webster
Lucy Webster has been an advisory teacher at EMC since 1999. She is co-editor of emagazine, runs courses and writes and edits publications, specialising in A Level English Literature. Recent publications include Doing Close Reading, study guides to A Streetcar Named Desire, Hamlet, King Lear, Atonement and Mrs Dalloway and Yes We Can: EMC Approaches to Rhetoric – A Practical Guide for 11-14. She edited The Literature Reader and co-edited What Matters in English Teaching.
Professor Emma Smith
Emma Smith is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Hertford College Oxford. She is the author of This Is Shakespeare and numerous articles for emagazine.
- Bookings for this course will close at 8am (London, UK) on Tuesday 16th June 2026 or when capacity is reached, whichever is the sooner.
- This course must be booked online.
- To book this course you must be signed into one of the following accounts:
- UK Trust/Academy – Head Office (purchasing)
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- UK Teacher – Home Address Only
- UK Private Individual
- Overseas
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- When the course has reached viable numbers, this will be indicated on the course page on the website and you may wish to book your transport.
Cancellations and amendments
- We require at least five working days’ notice of cancellation, otherwise your school will be invoiced for the full amount. However, if you are not able to attend and a colleague would like to take your place, this can be arranged at any time. (Please email [email protected] with the name and email address of the teacher.)
- We will indicate on the website when the course has reached viable numbers and will definitely run unless there are circumstances beyond our reasonable control. If you have booked your place before this threshold has been reached, we will email you to let you know. Before booking travel you may wish to wait until it has been confirmed on the website or by email that the course has reached viable numbers.
- If a course does have to be cancelled you will not be charged for the course and will receive a refund if you paid in advance. However, personal arrangements including travel, accommodation or hospitality relating to the course which have been arranged by you or your institution are at your own risk and not refundable by us.
- Our face-to-face courses are very interactive and cannot be live-streamed.
