Tuesday 27th April 2010, 4.45pm

I would like to invite you to a free talk for students and teachers of Classical Civilisation this coming April. Dr Peter Jones, broadcaster, journalist and classics campaigner, will be giving a lecture on Homer’s Odyssey at St Margaret’s School, Bushey.

Aimed at students of Classical Civilisation at both GCSE and A level, it promises to be an informative and entertaining session, starting at 4.45pm and lasting an hour, with time for questions at the end. Refreshments will be served from 4.15pm.

If you would like to attend this free event, please email me at chloe_garrow@stmargarets.herts.sch.uk before Monday 1st March 2010, with an indication of how many students you will be bringing, and I will let you know directions and further details accordingly.

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Fate and the Gods in Greek Tragedy
4th May 2010

Scott Scullion (Worcester College, Oxford) will talk at Francis Holland School (near Regent’s Park, London), with a focus on the prescribed OCR A Level dramas. Though aimed at at sixth form students and teachers, all are welcome (booking essential). The talk will begin at 5pm, and is free.

How to book

Members should have received an email from me about this development for the site, which could prove exciting, opening up the site to give its members more freedom and ownership over the material.

I have my fingers crossed that this won’t bring the problem of ‘Spam’ to the homepage. If it does, I’ll have to work to avoid this somehow.

For now though, please do register to add material to the homepage (top right of the homepage)! You can add your own posts, and comment on other people’s posts. NOTE: The method of accessing resources remains unchanged – this new development is in addition to that, no replacement.

JACT Latin Summer School, Monday 26^th July – Thursday 5^th July

See earlier post! Here’s a flier!

Saturday 6^th March
Senate House, Holborn, London

Speakers
Aisha Khan-Evans, Director of Classics PGCE, King’s College: Assessment For Learning and Classics
Rosie Wyles, University of Nottingham: Ancient Pantomime Costumes

Option Groups:

• Key Stage 3 Classical Civilisation
• Minimus
• CLC ‘Problem’ Stages
• Approaching GCSE Latin Literature
• Latin at a Gallop
• WJEC Certificates
• Virgil’s Aeneid
• Greek Sculpture and Architecture Revision
• Augustus
• The Historical Novel and Classics Teaching
• Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 8
• Catullus Poems 46 and 101

The Hellenic Bookservice will be available throughout the day

A full day of inset, with sessions run by experienced practitioners and academics from the classics world, for only £25.

Further details and booking form.
Programme and timings of the day.

David Hodgkinson at Headington School is hoping to arrange a conference on Virgil’s Aeneid on Thursday 25th March 2010. This may be a repeat, or share content with the Arms and a Man conference on 27th January – so anyone who can’t make that event might be interested! Details are yet to be confirmed, so…

… for more information on the conference, contact David Hodgkinson ASAP!

I was wondering whether anyone else out there is teaching the Comic Drama module for A2, or am I completely alone?  I’m struggling for resources on Menander (and probably also Plautus when I get to that).  I wonder if anyone can help.
Best wishes,
Alison Kingshott

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Lucy Leigh Livingstone from the Royal Belfast Academical Institution has been asked to run a twilight course for dedicated and able beginners in Latin, aiming for GCSE within two years.

She would very much appreciate your thoughts on what course would be best for this! Please leave a comment on this post.

Publicise your events here on the home page (as well as in our Facebook group, which has growing numbers of users, and has the added benefit that you have much more control and can contact people directly!!). Join our Facebook group.

Alternatively, you can just email me all the words and images, email addresses and links you would like me to include in a post on this homepage.

As well as events, feel free to send me other items to include here. But, remember that the Facebook group gives you all an area to do all of this for yourself, on your own terms, and to reach and chat with colleagues online. What the FB group is most useful for, perhaps, is the chance to discuss issues about teaching with colleagues, and to appeal for resources on particular topics.

As ever, if you have any suggestions or thought, please do pass them on.

The Classics Library is now on Facebook.

Make The Classics Library part of your Facebook experience.

Join our group on the Facebook site, where you can…

• meet colleagues online
• promote your events and discover new events
• discuss issues about Classics and Classics teaching
• suggest resources to be added to The Classics Library
• share photos and videos of classical events, sites and more

It’s a ‘closed group’ – Classics teachers only.
So, when you join, I’ll need to verify your registration – as a Classics teacher – before you can access the group.

PLEASE join now, and I’ll confirm your membership ASAP.

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