They need to be 16+, and yep, it’s assumed teachers (or at least one, who is there to supervise) will be digging.

What would you like to know? The first thing perhaps to say is that my school paid for staff places and expenses, which made things easier to arrange and cheaper for the students. Most students made their own arrangements to get to Haltwhistle (nearest town) and I drove a few up and back (as well as collected and dropped off those who came by train at the train station). It’s all relatively cheap: £20 required fee to become a ’Friend of Vindolanda’, plus £50 fee to excavate, plus accommodation at YH was about £14 pppn plus a £10 school’s membership fee. There are two digs at the site, one running Sunday-Thurs, and the other Tues-Sat, which means that visitors on any day can always see archaeologists at work. We did the former, which has more people working on it (20). Places are available on 1st November, and most go within days. The digging day is 10-5, with a lunch and tea break. What else?

Is the following useful….
http://etext.virginia.edu/latin/ovid/trans/Ovhome.htm
It’s Tony Kline’s easy-to-access translation, and all key characters are hyperlinked and cross-reference in a mythological index. Click on Apollo and see all the places in the poem where he appears. The translation might help with understanding, though it’s not in fact a summary.