Yr 9 visit the British Museum Roman galleries to explore the background to their Latin course...
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As part of the sixth form activity programme and community outreach, Mrs Elliot (Classics Dept) takes Yr 12 students to teach Latin at a local primary school. Simi Nijher explains what is involved and what she has enjoyed about it.
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Classics gives one not just a sound knowledge of writing and a firm basis for how sentences work... it gives you a whole insight into the interconnecting areas of the mind, politics, history, literature, language, indeed the whole human condition?
(Susan Greenfield, Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Fullerian Professor of Physiology, Oxford University)
The Classics Department aims to imbue in pupils a sense of the inherent interest of the Roman and Greek world, and its great cultural and linguistic influence over succeeding eras. The Department believes passionately that all students can gain both an understanding of the fascination of Latin and Greek literature and background, but also a sense of the help this knowledge can provide for so many other academic disciplines.
Mrs Margaret Fotheringham (staff) and Lucy Jackson (ONL) at the Classics Symposium...
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Latin is studied by all girls in Years 7-9, and is then offered at GCSE, where Greek is also available as a two year ab initio course. In the Sixth Form both languages are offered via both International Baccalaureate and A level route, and Classical Civilisation is also available at A level.
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Where Classicists go next: destinations of Latinists leaving in 2006
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