For Classics teachers
Bloomsbury Classics titles is partnering with Classoos during school closures and offering free digital access to the school textbooks – this includes the new de Romanis and also the OCR textbooks. As well as this the schools that have already adopted a textbook through them can also request access to an online pdf by emailing: academicsalesUK@bloomsbury.com. […]
Carrie Vout of the University of Cambridge is producing three videos on casts in the Museum of Classical Archaeology. Links to the first two below. Antinous Discobolus A link to the Museum’s website, where in time all three videos will appear: https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/museum/collections/collection-videos-1 And the Museum’s guide to ‘things to do at home’, for these times […]
Laugh in the face of adversity, do not despair – we’ll be fine. We are Classicists, we are polymaths, we teach despair and how to survive it, ‘wisdom through suffering’ and all that. Now let’s practice what we preach; our subject has always survived and so will we. “We’ve been preparing our whole lives. Not only is […]
Heather is uploading a series of videos as part of her remote teaching. She’ll be doing them on the Herodotus GCSE prose set text, Ancient History A level: the Julio-Claudians (currently Nero) and Philippics 2 (chapters 89-92), and will probably move on to Ruling Roman Britain and Tacitus’ Histories. The channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr0XvHHY_gvKKNX1NuXZ-7g
H/T Lorna Hardwick… At a time when so many researchers and students are working remotely, it may be helpful to make use of various online sites and databases. Among these is the Reception of Classical Texts Project, hosted by the Open University. The website contains material on the Reception of Greek Drama and Poetry, mainly in […]
From Loeb (H/T Tim Castle)… Access to the Online Loeb Classical library is now free during the Coronavirus crisis. Handy for Classics teachers setting remote work for sixth form students (and maybe lower down the key stages). See announcement below. “As the global community confronts the crisis posed by COVID-19, and individuals are increasingly required […]
The NZ Government wants to abolish Latin at each of the senior levels and merge Classics with History at Level 1. This Facebook link will help keep you up to date: https://www.facebook.com/savenzlatinclassics/ Please help, by making a submission via this consultation: https://consultation.education.govt.nz/ncea/ras-provisional-subject-list/consultation/intro/ From those spear-heading this charge: What can you do to help? The first […]
From Harry Tanner… https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgwlqMa6cBft4qG2IhOs47Q?view_as=subscriber For the last few weeks, I have been putting together an online course (in YouTube videos) for open access to Ancient Greek (Latin to follow later). I am uploading videos every day for the course, which takes beginners right through to reading proficiency. I record tutorial videos for the grammar, vocabulary, […]
POSTPONEDUpdate here in time, or sign up for the Bloomsbury Newsletter to hear first. Bloomsbury Classical Studies hosts an afternoon of discussions and workshops with authors Katharine Radice, Ashley Carter and James Renshaw This Classics for Schools event takes place on Saturday 25th April at the Bloomsbury HQ in London. It’s FREE to attend. Katharine, […]
Inspection copies available for Books 1 and 2 HERE! From one of the authors, Katharine Radice… In celebration of KS3 Classics! Over the past two years it’s become really clear that KS3 Classics is thriving in many schools. The recent literacy drive has played to one of our strongest cards, and Latin is well placed […]