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EMC CPD Webinar: Top Marks at GCSE – Macbeth

Availability
Places available
Price
£45 per place
Location
Online
Duration
2-3.30pm

See Booking Details for how to take advantage of our 2 for 1 offer. 

Course details

This short course offers ideas, resources and strategies to help your students engage with Macbeth at a high level and develop their personal and critical response. We will also discuss example student work from higher attainers and how to feed back effectively. The course will assume you are familiar with the play.

NB: This is a repeat course.

This course will be recorded but attendees will not be audible or visible. 

EMC's Webinar Packages

Online, via Zoom. Details of how to join will be sent before the session.

Download Zoom

  • If relevant, course materials will be sent the day before the course in the email with your joining instructions. Please either print these out or have them available on screen during the session.
  • After the session you will receive the PowerPoint presentation and any resources used on the course.
  • After the session you will receive a link to register to watch a recording of this session on-demand until 30th April 2026. 

How to join this course if your department has bought the webinar package

  • To join the live session, register using the registration link sent to the departmental key contact. You can register to join the live session right up to the start of the webinar. Use the unique link sent by [email protected] to join the webinar on the day.
  • To watch the recording on-demand, register using the on-demand registration link sent to the departmental key contact the day after the live session. This email will also include the PowerPoint presentation and any additional resources. On-demand access expires 330th April 2026.

Practical tips and advice that I was able to use the next day in my teaching. The 7 ways in was excellent as was the idea about exploratory writing. Charlotte Callow, Freman College, Top Marks at GCSE – Macbeth, 2024

Really well explained, clear and moved at a strong pace which boosted engagement A broad range of strategies and activities which I had never considered before. It sounds so simple but reading the play first to give students that experience is genius. The number and variety of activities which I can easily adapt to my own SoW was excellent. Good engagement in comments which boosted the quality of the course even further. After the course, I decided to scrap my current SoW and create a whole-new approach because I was that inspired! Jessica Stenson, Doha College, Top Marks at GCSE – Macbeth, 2023

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Lucy Hinchliffe

Lucy Hinchliffe is EMC’s Research & Projects Lead consultant. Her work is focused on exploring how English is taught in schools and how EMC can best support this through publications and CPD. She also specialises in KS3 and KS4 courses at the Centre, and has contributed to several publications, including the EMC Teaching novels pack for The Bone Sparrow, and EMC KS3 Poetry Plus. Lucy was an English teacher, KS3 Coordinator and whole school CPD leader in an outer London school prior to joining EMC full time.

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Kate Oliver

Kate Oliver taught for 14 years in Inner London in various roles. She now works as an education consultant for the English and Media Centre, specialising in KS3 and KS4. Her favourite aspects of English teaching are creative writing and poetry. She also has a particular interest in the wider implications of the subject such as getting students reading for pleasure and engaging teachers of other subjects with language across the curriculum. Her most recent publications for EMC are KS3 Poetry Plus, Just Write and Animal Farm: An EMC Full Text Study Edition.

EMC's Webinar Packages

Booking this course as a 'one-off' purchase

  • Bookings for this course will close at 8am (London, UK) on Friday 20th March, or when capacity is reached, whichever is the sooner.
  • This course is part of our 2 for 1 offer
    • Book a place on this course and you’ll be sent a voucher code entitling you to book a further place on the same course for a colleague at your school. Your code will be emailed to you as soon as we have received your booking.
    • Please note: bookings for this course close at 8am on Friday 20th March. The 2nd free place must be booked before the closing date, so please make sure you give yourself enough time!
    • Your voucher can only be redeemed online and is only eligible against this course.
      (Any issues please email Lucy.)
  • This course must be booked and paid for online. Payment by invoice is not available for this session. Please note: your fee is non-refundable.
  • To book this course you must be signed into one of the following accounts (registering an account first if you need to):
    • UK Trust/Academy – Head Office (purchasing) 
    • UK Educator Admin (purchasing)
    • UK Teacher – Home Address Only
    • UK Private Individual
    • Overseas
  • If you have a UK Educator Standard account you will not be able to book the course. Sign in to your account and add it to your Wishlist. See the list of people able to book courses at your organisation by clicking ‘My Account’, then ‘Our Admin Users’.
  1. Click 'Book now’ (right-hand column).
  2. Add the number of places you need. 
  3. Fill in the names and email addresses of the people attending. To secure your place, please make sure you add the attendee details immediately and checkout within 24 minutes. Otherwise the booking will expire and you will have to begin the process again.
  4. Click submit and then Go to basket.
  5. Checkout. (Payment by invoice is not available for this session.)
  6. IF TAKING ADVANTAGE OF OUR 2 FOR 1 OFFER, PLEASE WAIT TO BE SENT YOUR CODE BEFORE BOOKING YOUR 2ND PLACE.
  7. Once you have booked your place, you will see a screen indicating your order has been successful. You may want to make a note of your order number. The person making the booking and the attendee will receive an automatic acknowledgement of your booking.
  8. Instructions on how to join the course (including Zoom login details) will be sent from [email protected] for the first time on the day bookings close. Reminders, including any course handouts, will be sent the day before and one-hour before the course. Please check your junk or promotions folder. Still no luck? Email us before 1pm on the course day [email protected].

Cancellation and amendments

  • Afternoon and twilight webinars must be paid for by card at the time of booking.
  • The fee is non-refundable.
  • However, the webinars are recorded. Anyone who books a place on the course will be sent a link to register to access the recording of the webinar until 30th April 20266, regardless of whether they attended live.