Curriculum Leader of Classics in Leeds. Passionate about promoting the study of #classics in state schools!🏺 Previously Gem Williams (she/her)
Leeds, England
Joined July 2015
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KS3 English teachers! There's still time to register for our Ovid competition. From Sept 2025, if you teach the mythology from Ovid's Metamorphoses, we award prizes to the most creative responses from your students. Find out more or sign up below. #storytelling #literacy #create
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❤️☺️ Hope your pupils enjoy them @GAdamsClassics! Keep up the good work, flying the flag for Classics. 🙌
I added the Circus Maximus books into the @Allerton_Grange school library today! 📚 Thank you so much to @AnneliseGray for the bookmarks and book plates! 🥰
I added the Circus Maximus books into the @Allerton_Grange school library today! 📚 Thank you so much to @AnneliseGray for the bookmarks and book plates! 🥰
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Sign up for our free online CPD session for KS2 and KS3 teachers - further info shorturl.at/xni25 @CarolineLawrenc @Caecilius_CLC @LEJenksBrown @GAdamsClassics @Classical_Assoc @classicsforall @histassoc @HistoryHit @HistoryPrimary @Mr_S_Tiffany @Ramble14 @HistoricEngland
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***📚Book Giveaway📚***
Copies of Homer’s ‘The Iliad’ and ‘The Odyssey’, translated by Emily Wilson. Please retweet to enter. Winner to be drawn at random. Entries from both UK and abroad welcome. Last day for entry is 14/03/2025. Good Luck. 🙂🤞
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Thank you for suggesting so many great schools & libraries! Receiving the 8 books is @WSFC_Official, nominated by Nina Rinke!
Runners up who will also receive books are @MoffatAcademy, Tyldesley Library @WiganLibraries, and @Allerton_Grange (nominated by @GAdamsClassics) ❤️📚
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Just finished a book with @ProfArleneHH after 7 years gestation, midterm complications and painful birth. It will be out this year to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Classical Civilisation qualifications in UK schools. Yeehaw @ClassCivAncHist @Classical_Assoc @Durham_Classics
Just incredible! 👏👏👏
@profarlenehh’s #research and #engagement work @durham_classics @durham_uni to widen access to #classical subjects in schools is featured in today’s @guardian #TransformativeHumanities @ahrcpress @british_academy @PDJSwallow @edithmayhall
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Delighted to start the year with some good news thanks to @guardian
GCSE Classical Civilisation entries are up 34% in the last 5 years
GCSE Ancient History entries are up 72% in the last 5 years
We’re making progress! 👏🎉
@profarlenehh’s #research and #engagement work @durham_classics @durham_uni to widen access to #classical subjects in schools is featured in today’s @guardian #TransformativeHumanities @ahrcpress @british_academy @PDJSwallow @edithmayhall
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The CA is extremely disappointed by the announcement of the end of funding for the Latin Excellence Programme. We urge any student, parent, or teacher affected to get in touch with us and we will try to help in any way we can to ensure that students can finish their course.
Exclusive: Thousands of secondary pupils face 'significant disruption' after the government scrapped its state school Latin programme mid-year
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A fantastic trip to London for @Allerton_Grange Classics and Drama students! We saw the brilliant Hadestown last night! Today, GCSE and A Level Classicists went to the British Museum to view the sources they have been studying in lessons. London was lovely with Christmas lights!
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I feel so sad about this scrapping of the Latin Excellence Programme, bringing Latin to state schools (I've been involved a little). I am trying hard to resist the idea that it's prejudice against the subject (combined with a dash of ignorance) tinyurl.com/5fjr9ywk
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Blog on a week in North-Eastern Classics--prison teaching, reception, pedagogy research, and bittersweet day with an invaluable friend and mentor edithorial.blogspot.com/2024… @AgainstLore @PublicAristotle @AristotleStyle @Durham_Classics
The new book, Classics in Action has now been published. A brilliant book on Classics teaching by @jessbisc and @ProfArleneHH. I have written a case study on the creation of our KS3 #Classics curriculum. A career highlight for me! 📖
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Classical Association: Write | Speak | Design Competition 2025
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Please sign this petition! The historic Lampeter Campus teachers #Classics and Ancient History.
Not only that, they are accessible. It means state school students who aren’t going to achieve A*, A or Bs still have a wonderful university to pursue Classics at.
Save #Lampeter!
❗️The University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) has announced a plan to END ALL UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING at its historical Lampeter campus by September 2025!
🗓#Petition closes on February 28, 2025
➡️Learn more and sign here: petitions.senedd.wales/petit…
#EducationMatters
@Classical_Assoc @classicsforall @ClassicsNorth @ProfArleneHH @edithmayhall @ClassCivAncHist @Hellenic_Soc @TheRomanSoc @profmcscott @RegineMay @StephenJenkin @StevenHuntClass @wmarybeard @WorkClassicists @Dr_MaiMusie @officialnhaynes Please retweet to save Lampeter! 🙏🏺
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After two hundred years, undergraduate teaching at Lampeter might come to and end. Send a strong message to the Welsh Government to save our oldest university! #savelampeter #200yearsofhistory #wales #humanities petitions.senedd.wales/petit…
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It’s publication day for ‘#Classics in Action’, co-authored with @jessbisc! @johncatted @hoddered11to19
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@durham_classics @classical_assoc @histassoc @arltclassics @TheRomanSoc @hellenic_soc @classcivanchist @ahrcpress @BritishAcademy_ @LeverhulmeTrust