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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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… ...
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...
Maximum Classics
AUTHOR: Charlie Andrew, Director, 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...
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”...
