Written by The Birmingham and Midlands Classical Association would like to invite all teachers to their annual Teachers’ Day. Please see the programme for the day below.
Birmingham and Midlands Classical Association Teachers’ Day
Saturday 4 February 2016
9.30 – 9.45: Arrival and coffee
9.45 – 11.00: Introduction to the new GCE and GCSE specifications in Classical Civilisation & Ancient History (Alex Orgee and Caroline Bristow, OCR Subject Specialists – Classics)
11.00 – 11.45: Studying ancient women and the use of scholars in candidate responses (Caroline Bristow, OCR Subject Specialist – Classics)
11.45 – 12.00: Coffee break
12:00 – 1:00: Eduqas: Delivery on the new Latin GCSE specification Teaching strategies: engaging all abilities (Alan Clague, WJEC Subject Officer – Latin)
1:00 – 2.00: Lunch
2.00 – 3.00: Tacitus: Annals I and IV (Dr Ed Bispham, University of Oxford)
3.00 – 4.00: Elegiac Poetry (Dr Elena Theodorakopoulos, University of Birmingham)
4.00 – 4.30: Tea, final questions and departure
Please contact Joanna Johnson at Solihull School () to register your interest.
The cost of the event is £30 per attendee which can be paid on the day. Receipts can be supplied after the event. Schools do not need to be a member of the Birmingham and Midlands Classical Association to attend.
We would also like to draw your attention to our other events next term:
The BMCA January Lecture
At 5.30pm on Thursday 19 January 2017, Henrietta van der Blom will be speaking on Cicero
The BMCA Texts and Topics Conference
Saturday 11 March 2017: a variety of speakers on the texts and topics that are being studied at A Level in both Latin and Classical Civilisation
A Special Event!
At 5.30pm on Thursday 16 March 2016, Natalie Haynes ‘Honour amongst Thebes’.
We very much look forward to seeing you and your students at our events. More information about the talks and the Conference in due course.
