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 …
Category: Reflections
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?
by 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 …
‘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 …
‘Marching Hexameters’: Alternative WWI Poets for Remembrance Day
As we approach Remembrance Day, we have decided to take a week to examine the relationship between the classical world and the production of poetry …
Five Alternative War Poems for Remembrance Day
Following on from our piece on ‘Alternative WWI Poets for Remembrance Day‘, we’ve put together a short list of poems / collections that could be …
Why It’s Good To Get Things Wrong
or, Why I Don’t Correct My Year 7 Set (on Day One). It’s early September, and I’ve just taught my favourite lesson of the year. …
Quinquennium: The Relaunch!
I want to speak about bodies changed into new forms… I’ve just begun my seventh consecutive year of teaching students how to translate Ovid at …
Quinquennium: the first year in numbers
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What’s it like learning Latin in the USA?
by To the perennial amusement of my British colleagues, I learned Latin at school from a series of textbooks called Latin for Americans – as if …
How can we boost the profile of languages in schools?
by Nestor, the king of sandy Pylos, is the grand old man of Homer’s Iliad. He has seen the passing of two generations of mankind and …