Monthly Archives: April 2010

After-school teachers needed – London

April 28th, 2010
The Classics Academy is currently recruiting teachers for next year. We need teachers for classes in Camden, Streatham and Ealing, to provide our GCSE Latin programme. Classes are usually held 4.45 to 6.15 twice a week.  These are small groups of motivated pupils (mostly state school pupils funded by their schools) and are accordingly a [...]

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Part time teacher needed

April 26th, 2010
We are looking for a somebody to take on at least 2.5 timetable, teaching A level Latin and AS Greek at Kent College Pembury. Anyone interested?  Contact me if you are. James Mossman

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GCSE Classics – inspiration needed

April 26th, 2010
I am teaching the new GCSE Classics and am currently doing the module on city life in Athens. Is anyone else doing this? I am making all the resources myself and it would be wonderful to be able to share resources with others and I haven’t seen any on this site yet. Also, I know this [...]

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Classics Podcast

April 24th, 2010
In February this year, I created a podcast for the Classics department here at King Edward’s designed to help some of our less linguistically able learn the vocabulary in the early stages of the CLC.  Since then it has expanded to take in the GCSE Latin & Greek set texts and it will eventually have [...]

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KS4 Latin INSET 29th April

April 22nd, 2010
I know it’s late notice, but I’m running a KS4 Latin INSET day next Thursday, 29th April. Place: Ioannou Classics Centre, Oxford Times: 10:00-15:30 People contributing: Dr Juliane Kerkhecker (Grocyn Lecturer), David Hodgkinson (HoD, Headington School), Andrew Reinhard (Latin for the New Millennium, Bolchazy-Carducci, e-learning and Latin), me. Cost: FREE (but £5 contribution towards lunch, details tbc). GCSE rather than [...]

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Agora

April 21st, 2010
Amenabar’s film Agora, about the life of the Alexandrian astronomer, mathematician and philosopher Hypatia, starring Rachel Weisz, is out on Friday.  The website for the film is http://www.paramountpicturesintl.com/intl/uk/agoramovie/ and has some info on the historical research, the characters as well as some posters which you can download.  It may be useful for CLC Book II.

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A New Classical Folk Opera

April 18th, 2010
Anaïs Mitchell has written a new folk opera based on the legend of Orpheus which is due to be released here on 26th April.  It has picked up good reviews.  There aren’t any dates planned for the UK as far as I can see but more info can be found here: www.hadestown.com

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Do you need HELP?

April 15th, 2010
To help everyone take advantage of the site, and its many features, I’ve put together some files. Just click on the ‘Help‘ menu at the top of the page, and choose a help topic.

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