For Classics teachers
Next week (3-7 May), Bloomsbury are celebrating 1 year of de Romanis, their KS3 Latin course. If you haven’t yet taken a look at de Romanis, now’s your chance to explore more of what it has to offer with a whole host of events throughout the week. The author team will be putting on another […]
Priam is a new ancient history resource and hub, founded by Eugenia Russell. Visit Priam to take a look!
Paul Holland, Latin and Classics teacher at Westonbirt School, in Gloucestershire, started this project as a way of plugging the gaps for his pupils in these extraordinary times, but which has expanded into something much broader. His YouTube channel, Lockdown Learning, concentrates primarily on Classics, although there are now plenty of EPQ/French/Art History videos on […]
Join Dr Amanda Potter from the Open University for an online creative writing workshop, via Zoom. We will use characters and themes from Greek mythology, and paintings from the Brighton Museum collection, as an inspiration for your work. Amanda will lead you through some short exercises to help you to build characters and get you […]
Creative Writing Competition – inspired by the Manar al-Athar Photo BankAges 14-18 Deadline: 6pm (GMT) on Thursday 27 May 2021 https://clasoutreach.web.ox.ac.uk/creative-writing-competition-2021 Drama Competition – The David Raeburn PrizeAges 11-18 Deadline: 6pm on Thursday 2nd December 2021 https://clasoutreach.web.ox.ac.uk/drama-competition-2021
We are pleased to announce a new outreach initiative from The Faculty of Classics at Cambridge aimed at students and teachers interested in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Virtual Classics with Cambridge. Virtual Classics with Cambridge: Academics on YouTube We encourage teachers in a variety of subjects to use these enrichment videos. We also highlight relevance […]
Let Wise Homer predict how your day or week will go. Will you be like a mountain lion or more of a poppy in a rainstorm? Using his over two hundred extended similes, Homer will try to give you a heads up on how things will go. All similes are line-referenced to make them useful […]
This season of shows premiered last week and is now available online, along with recorded Q&A with the casts. Everything is at https://www.arrowsandtraps.com/talkinggods. There is the occasional swear word and mild sexual reference, but nothing explicit, and they have revised their original age recommendation from 15 to 12 years old. Press Release This spring, Arrows & Traps […]
UK Latin teachers wanted Digital Latin for UK secondary schools Are you a secondary school teacher of Latin? Do you teach in the United Kingdom?Your opinion and experience are important to us! Maieutical Labs is looking for consultants, revisers and authors to develop a software programme entirely focused on Latin. Founded in 2011 in Turin, Maieutical Labs […]
The Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research, in partnership with the Faculty of Classics, is delighted to launch its 2021 Creative Writing Competition. Prizes will be awarded to the top three creative pieces written in response to images from the Manar al-Athar Photo Bank. This unique photograph collection contains around 80,000 images of archaeological sites, buildings and artwork from […]