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You may have heard the phrase “to have blood on his/her hands”. I popped into Mrs Baxendale’s Year 9 class today to find her sat on the floor in the middle of the room washing blood off her hands. Firstly I checked that no one had been injured, or worse! Then I asked what was going on. The students informed me that it was a lesson on Macbeth and that blood was sign of internal guilt that runs as a theme throughout the play. Mrs Baxendale was doing her best Lady Macbeth impression.

I had a meeting, but couldn’t leave the room as I was keen what would happen next. The students then had a squirt of fake blood on their hand, made a bloody handprint in their exercise books and started writing key points on the fingers as a revision tool.

The class were also discussing whether Lady Macbeth or Macbeth was responsible for the murder of the King and on the back of International Women’s Day a fascinating debate ensued about the role of women in patriarchal societies.

I learned loads and I was only there 10 minutes, so I am very confident these students to will flourish in their next assessment.