Classics in Action
Latin Rocks On!
Latin Rocks On AUTHOR: Sarah Rowley READ TIME: 6 MINS Classics In Action castaneae tostae in igne… Iacobus Pruinosus mordens nasum…“Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose…”(with some poetic licence!) est haec vita vera? est simpliciter somnium? I have always loved Latin and studied it at school and university. My fascination began when… Read more »
The Language Crisis HEPI Report
In August 2025, the Higher Education Policy Institute published a report; The Language Crisis: Arresting decline, authored by classicist Megan Bowler. You can read the HEPI report in full here This report found that just 2.97 percent of A Levels taken in 2024 were for modern languages, Welsh and Irish, and classical languages, and that language… Read more »
Classics Education in Northern Ireland
Classics Education in Northern Ireland by Helen McVeigh Northern Ireland sits in a rather isolated position: not only geographically but also academically. It has been 23 years since I began my masters degree at Queen’s University Belfast. The 2002-03 academic year welcomed the last intake of Classics students. It has been even longer still since… Read more »
A Manifesto for Today
Paige Dewbrey Winner of our 2025 Write | Speak | Design Competition, Paige is a student from the US, who delivered the following manifesto in response to the question ‘Why is Classics important?’ Against Justification: The Unruly Necessity of Classics The question “Why is Classics Important?” is, at first blush, an offense—a query lobbed like… Read more »
Multi-Sensory Ancient Greece
Multi-Sensory Ancient Greece Matthew Rawcliffe Dancer & Choreographer In September 2024, Matthew Rawcliffe was awarded an outreach grant by the CA for a project which aimed to design and create sensory packages for use in a series of dance performances retelling ancient Greek myths for young people with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD). Matthew describes… Read more »
Sapere Aude: Dare to Know
Sapere Aude: Dare to Know AUTHOR: Claire Woozley Read part 1 in Claire’s series here The house is hushed. Upstairs, the children have quieted, finally relenting to sleep whilst downstairs, the chores are done, and the kitchen now darkened. It’s a precious time of day, a deep breath after the intensity of juggling full time teaching… Read more »
Athena Society: using history to tackle misogyny in schools
Athena Society: using history to tackle misogyny in schools AUTHOR: Laura Aitken-Burt On Monday 14th June 2021, the CA hosted a virtual event for schoolteachers, designed to provide information, and dispel myths, about presenting at a CA conference as a teacher. Devised and hosted by the CA’s Outreach Officer, a former schoolteacher herself, the event was… Read more »
Classical Texts in the KS3 English Curriculum
Classical Texts in the KS3 English Curriculum AUTHOR: Claire Woozley Early January in a busy, urban school and I’m lucky enough to be watching lessons centred around Simon Armitage’s earthy translation of The Odyssey. Having worked closely with our trust-wide English team, this is the first time I’m seeing it in action. Sitting at home writing… Read more »
Reading Ancient Schoolroom
Reading Ancient Schoolroom AUTHOR: Eleanor Dickey What were Roman schools really like? Of course we know a lot about them in an abstract sense: children worked individually at their own pace, they wrote on wax tablets and read from papyrus rolls, reading was hard before the invention of spaces between words, etc. But what did the… Read more »
Ancient Greek Alive – Frogs on Film!
Ancient Greek Alive – Frogs on Film! AUTHOR: Lorem Ipsum Athens, 405 B.C. The city finds itself devoid of talented poets. Consequently, the god Dionysus, accompanied by his slave Xanthias, embarks on a journey to the Underworld to retrieve the renowned tragedian Euripides and to save the city of Athens. Meanwhile, Heracles, Dionysus’ brother, receives a… Read more »
Artefacts in Action
Artefacts in Action AUTHOR: Chloe Lewis READ TIME: 10 MINS Classics teacher Chloe Lewis explains how her passion for teaching classics in interesting ways, with a focus on ancient objects, led her to start a new venture… Artefacts in Action is a small business I have recently set up, offering in-house workshops to primary schools. I firmly… Read more »
Autism Awareness Day: Myth and Reality
Autism Awareness Day: Myth and Reality AUTHOR: Cora Beth Fraser READ TIME: 10 MINS This Sunday is World Autism Awareness Day, which sounds like a magical day of celebration for autistic people like me. But like everything else in life, the reality is not that simple, and ‘awareness’ can feel more like a threat than a promise.… Read more »
Maximum Classics
Maximum Classics AUTHOR: Charlie Andrew, Director, Maximum Classics CIC READ TIME: 10 MINS Latin and Greek for English vocabulary – an inclusive approach for all students and teachers Based on my experience of teaching Classical languages, one of the most wonderful ancillary benefits of learning Latin or Greek is how students can make associations with English… Read more »
Introducing Vocabulous
Introducing Vocabulous AUTHOR: Lucy Huelin Vocabulous is an exciting new resource that aims to improve students’ English vocabulary by teaching Latin and Greek root word patterns in KS2/KS3 English lessons. Moreover, there is a significant “word gap” at transition from primary to secondary school; the Oxford Language Report estimates that 43% of Year 7 students don’t have the vocabulary… Read more »