What to expect from Quinquennium in Autumn 2022
by It’s year 4 of Quinquennium and you’d be right to furrow your brow and ask what happened in year 3. Answer: not much! The HoD’s …
How to give pupils the upper hand in an Ovid unseen
by One of my great pleasures is teaching at the JACT Latin Camp each summer. Though for many it will sound the very definition of a …
The JACT Latin Camp – as a trainee teacher
by After completing the PGCE in Latin with Classics at Cambridge, I wanted to use part of my summer to extend my knowledge and skills set …
How can independent schools do Classics outreach effectively?
Were you to cast your eye over the prospectus of any independent school, you would be hard pressed not to find a section focusing on …
Three tips for teaching… Ovid unseens
For many students, tackling verse unseens will be their Everest. Even in departments that prepare their pupils for the rigours of examined prose composition at …
Why We’ve Decided to Switch to Suburani from the CLC
by In the summer of 2020 I decided that it was finally time to change to a different Latin course for my KS3 pupils. I want …
Overseas School Trips: A Radical Rethink
by magistri, gaudete! Having heroically survived an unprecedented year of teaching, you are now sufficiently battle hardened to tackle an overseas trip. Expect increased prices and …
Seven Ingredients for a Successful Classics Trip!
by Taking young people abroad is, of course, both a great pleasure and a significant responsibility: for that reason, I would advise a young teacher to …
alea iacta est – Building Students Engagement Through Game-Based Starters
by One of the challenges we as teachers face during online teaching is how to avoid monotony. How can we stop our students becoming bored by …
‘Scattered as Empty Gifts to the Clouds’: 5 More Tips for Online Learning
Teaching can often feel Sisyphean: in our gloomier moments, which of us hasn’t contemplated the endless repetition of our teaching day, week, term, and even …
fons classicus: An Introduction to CSL Studies at Key Stage 3 (Part III)
by In the previous two posts, we looked at CSL Studies: the idea of creating a Key Stage 3 curriculum that would allow pupils to make …
fons classicus: An Introduction to CSL Studies at Key Stage 3 (Part II)
In our previous post, we looked at the idea of CSL (Cross Syllabus Links) Studies – the suggestion that individual subject teachers, especially at Key …
fons classicus: An Introduction to CSL Studies at Key Stage 3
As Classicists we all know that our subject is multi-disciplinary: ours is the study of the language, literature, history, philosophy, politics, art and architecture of …
A Pedagogical Review of A People’s History of Classics
by A Pedagogical Review of A People’s History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689-1939 By Edith Hall and Henry Stead (Routledge …
Can you imagine Year 7 Latin without Caecilius in horto?
Mount Vesuvius casts a very long shadow. It looms large over the bay of Naples but it looms larger, perhaps, in the memories of the …