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AS Greek Lecture: Lysias against Eratosthenes
[ March 8, 2011; 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm. ]
For students and teachers of AS Classical Greek.
Prof Chris Carey (UCL, London) will speak on ‘Lysias' Oration against Eratosthenes' at Francis Holland School, Regent’s Park, London, 5-6pm on Tuesday 8th March 2011.
Prof Carey will focus on the current AS Classical Greek prescribed prose text, looking at the impact and effectiveness of [...]
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Hadrian’s Wall Visit
Dear All,
I am in the process of organising a trip to Hadrian’s Wall for years 8 & 9. I was wondering whether anyone could give me some advice as to which are the best places to visit and where we could stay overnight.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
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The Bacchae
Last Friday I went to see a local production of the Bacchae which I have to say is one of the best interpretations of a Greek play that I have ever seen. It’s on until this Friday (June 18th) at the Abbey Theatre in St Albans: if you live in the London area, see if you [...]
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Egypt Tours
Dear all,
Has anyone done a trip to Egypt recently? If so, I’d really appreciate advice on travel companies, itineraries etc.
many thanks
Rod Jackson
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AL ClassCiv Lecture: Art and Architecture
[ November 23, 2010; 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm. ] For students and teachers of A Level Classical Civilisation Art and Architecture.
Dr Michael Scott (Darwin College, Cambridge) will speak on 'Producing and Experiencing Religion through Art and Architecture in Ancient Greece' at Francis Holland School, Regent's Park, London, 5-6pm on Tuesday 23rd November 2010.
Dr Scott will consider parallels between temple architecture and sculpture and [...]
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GCSE Greek Lecture: Herodotus on Cyrus’ Childhood
[ October 5, 2010; 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm. ] For students and teachers of the GCSE Classical Greek Prose prescription.
Dr Rosalind Thomas (Balliol College, Oxford) will speak on 'Herodotus and the Childhood of Cyrus the Great' at Francis Holland School, Regent's Park, London, 5-6pm on Tuesday 5th October 2010.
Dr Thomas will examine the GCSE prescription, adapted from the original. She'll discuss Herodotus' treatment of [...]
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OCR GCSE Classical Civilisation
Hi all
I’ve just set up this new group. Please join if you teach this specification!
I’m keen to pool together some ideas on the new controlled assessment. As the new Head of Classics and Latin at St Mary’s we are taking Antigone as our topic. What about you guys?
Nancy xx
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Groups and Email Notifications
Don’t just log in and click on Resources…
Everybody’s Joining Groups
Everybody’s joining Groups, to take part in discussion and keep up to date with colleagues’ expertise.
The Groups are working brilliantly, as they’re meant to, with new Groups being created all the time. Members have had some very important recent contributions to make on A Level Latin [...]
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Resources Reorganised
GCSE Latin and Greek Literature
Legacy material is now in the Archive. This frees up the main (topmost) area of each page for the new GCSE specification.
AS/A2 Classical Civilisation
We’ve all wanted this for some time. The issue has always been about how to organise the resources to best effect. There are now separate pages for the [...]
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Classics Job in Hertfordshire
Berkhamsted School has a vacancy for a part time teacher of Classics (Latin and Classical Civilisation) from September 2010. Teaching available will be approximately 0.5 of a full timetable and will be mainly at KS3.
Berkhamsted School is a successful day and boarding independent school in Hertfordhire, which provides single sex education for both boys and girls on separate [...]
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Ovid Amores Book 3
I see that Ovid Amores Book 3 will soon be on the AS Latin Syllabus with OCR. I can find no texts or commentary on this book at all even though Books 1 and 2 have already been done and Book 4 is about to be done. I have found 1 possible book commentary but [...]
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Welcome to Thebes
[ June 15, 2010; 7:00 pm; ]
A new production at the National Theatre, and an interesting link between the Greek myths, and politics ancient and modern.
Opens 15th June and runs till 19th August.
NT link
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JACT / ARLT Summer Schools
[ July 10, 2010 to July 15, 2010. July 22, 2010 to July 25, 2010. July 26, 2010 to August 5, 2010. August 1, 2010 to August 14, 2010. ] JACT Latin Summer School
26th July-5th August
Wells Cathedral School, Somerset
For more information,
Email: aboyt@norwich-school.org.uk
Or look at our new Facebook group: JACT Latin Summer School
JACT Greek Summer School
1st-14th August
Bryanston School, Dorset
For more information contact Mrs E Warren, Claremont House, 5 Merlin Haven, Wotton-under-Edge, GL12 7BA.
JACT Classical Civilisation/Ancient History Summer School
10th-15th July
Repton School, Derby
For further information [...]
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ANCIENT GREEK IN THE PARK
Coming to a park near you!
Educational charity The Iris Project will be starting up a new series of free lessons for adults and families this spring and summer across parks in Oxford and London, introducing the fascinating language of the ancient Greeks.
These sessions will be starting in London’s Hyde Park on 10th June and running [...]
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Iota – a new Classics magazine for primary schools!
The Iris Project is launching a younger sibling for Iris magazine, Iota. Each issue is to be structured around a different myth from the ancient world, and will contain an exciting mix of games, articles, puzzles, language learning ideas and activities, and much more. The pilot edition of Iota will be available in autumn 2010. [...]
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CICERO results 2010
Just a quick post to give the CICERO competition results for this year.
The Cultural competition was won by Jonathan Bertulis-Fernandes from Mill Hill School; the UVI Latin by Kirstie Mok from Haberdashers’ Aske’s School for Girls; the LVI Latin by Patrick Heaton from Manchester Grammar.
Thanks to the generosity of the sponsors, we were able to [...]
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Short course Latin GCSE set texts – Virgil
Has anyone noticed that there are some lines on the syllabus for 2010 which are not in the CUP text, and that the specimen paper has questions on lines that are not on the syllabus? I have rung the exam board twice and not yet received a reply. Anyone know which is right – syllabus [...]
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Virgil and the World of the Hero
Some clarification from OCR on the use of The Iliad in the exam. Passages from the prescribed books from The Iliad may appear in the commentary section of the paper (despite the sample paper provided to date only displaying passages from The Aeneid). For a new (this week) commentary question from OCR click here. For [...]
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A2 Art and Architecture (OCR)
There are four strands to this topic – (1) free-standing, (2) architectural sculpture, (3) vases and (4) temples and sanctuaries.
Am I right in assuming that the contexts or essays will never both be drawn from the same one of these four, meaning that if one chose not to teach / revise one topic (say architecture [...]
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AS Latin Conference
by Steve Jenkin • Comments (0)
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