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 …
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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 …
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 …
Can you imagine Year 7 Latin without Caecilius in horto?
by 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 …
Living Latin – FAQs & Debunking Myths!
by The ‘Living Latin’ movement is an approach to Latin that treats it as a natural human language; as a result, it is aimed at reviving …
12 Tips for an (Oxbridge) Interview
It’s almost that most magical time of the year – and then it will be Christmas. With the annual interviews for places at Oxford and …
How To Maximise Your Pupils’ Vocabulary
by Getting pupils to learn the words is our most important task: vocabulary is paramount for any language.. It cannot be done by absorption, as with …
‘Teaching like Janus’: Ten Tips for Online/Hybrid Teaching
Despite the positive developments of the past week and a creeping optimism, it still appears that social restrictions, and consequently some form of disrupted teaching, …
‘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 …
How to Extend the Top End at GCSE Latin
by The watchword at Abingdon School for the last few years has been ‘rigour’ – a term I prefer to ‘stretch and challenge’ – and this …