Teacher 👩🏫 Latin, History, Classical Civilisation, Oracy & Ancient Greek. 🏺🏛️ State school. 🏫 Also interested in literacy and outdoor education. 📚🏕️
London(ish) + Suffolk
Joined November 2015
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"So why did you decide to become a Latin teacher?"
Me: "Because I was still bitter about not having the opportunity to study Latin at secondary school."
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@Classical_Assoc is hosting a FREE in-person CPD day for teachers of Ancient History on 28 Jan 2025 @harrowclassics Travel bursaries are available for state-school teachers from @classicsforall - Register and more info: bit.ly/3ZjqBM9
I was originally quite sceptical of @HandsUpEduc's decision to introduce the word 'psittacus' (parrot) in Chapter 2 of Suburani. However, when you teach in London and have parakeets constantly chattering outside your classroom window, it's actually a very useful Latin word. 🦜
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As part of our #WhereCanClassicsTakeYou campaign, we've launched a digital magazine! A celebration of this fantastic subject and a resource for students, inside you'll find interviews, stories and book recommendations.
Read it here: bit.ly/4cLYGJL
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are you teaching @OCR_Classics imperial image this year? If so you might find some new resources of use! @WarwickClassNet new videos on #tokens, #coins, #Augustus and #Livia (with ppts) here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/class… @ArtsImpactWarw
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If you are in a state school and have been lucky enough to study Ancient Greek to GCSE then @classicsforall can offer you the chance to continue your studies to AS level, online for free. Only a couple of places left @JACTGreek @JACTLatin_Greek @Classical_Assoc @Hellenic_Soc
I recently went to the Lake District for a few days. I had to visit the local Roman fortress. #ClassicsTeacher #HistoryTeacher
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Our #AncientHistory, #ClassCiv, #Latin and #ClassicalGreek CPD programme for the next year is now being made available.
It includes:
•FREE 'Starting to Teach' webinars
•FREE 'Exam Review' webinars
•Paid for 'Exploring the Exam' events
Sign up 👇
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The British Council's Language Trends 2024 survey shows positive news for classical languages:
📈Primary: Latin is in the 'top four' primary languages, being taught in 3% of primaries.
📈Secondary: 29 state schools reported Latin as a full curriculum subject compared to 8 in 2023
In our new blog we take a look at the results of the latest Language Trends England survey and find schools struggling, but there's hope for the future with the creation of the new network of lead hub schools.
Read it here: bit.ly/4bPluHM
#MFL #MFLTwitterati
ALT A poster in a school - on a yellow background text says: Je vais. Tu vas. Il / elle / on va. Nous allons. Vous allez.
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The CA is hosting a FREE online CPD Day for Classical Languages on Tuesday 2 July. With practical sessions such as modelling and scaffolding, this event is suitable for teachers from KS3-KS5.
Find out more and register here: forms.gle/SQCvwpUe2q27i3fSA
🏺Classics teachers - come and join us at ARLT this summer! 🏛️ Summer school is such a brilliant week and bursaries are available!
This year I'll be running an option group on adaptive teaching in Latin and Classics lessons.
Provisional GCSE & A Level exam entries are out:
- GCSE Ancient Languages 📉 -1%
- GCSE Classical Civilisation 📈 11.7%
- A Level Classical Subjects 📈 9%
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Teaching the Underworld? 🏺💀👻
Last year, @TED_ED dropped a video of the Sibyl giving Achilles a tour of the Underworld which includes those mentioned in Ovid's account of Orpheus and Eurydice.
Great for GCSE Classical Civilisation Myth & Religion.
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If you run a Classics club and are ever stuck for ideas, the @TED_ED 'Myths from Around the World' playlist is a brilliant starting point for any session: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL… Below each video you'll find a link to further resources and discussion points on their website. 🏺🏛️
You can now read about my conversation with @CJMusgrove88 on the cultural background sections in the #CLC5th and the pedagogy that underpins them on the #CSCPblog.
“I thought: I am not doing the cultural background the justice it deserves”
📜 New #CSCPblog! Teacher and #CLC5th contributor @MissCMort speaks to @CJMusgrove88 on the use of history pedagogy in the Classics classroom.
#ClassicsTwitter #Classics @CamEdFac
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Spent 3 days away with Y10 on my second DofE trip of the year. Glorious weather and so many red kites! Unfortunately I haven't had the capacity to help with DofE for a few years and I didn't realise how much I missed it! 🏕️
My two most recent reads both featured 🧜♀️ but were very different from each other:
📚1️⃣8️⃣ The Seawomen by Chloe Timms - dystopian with mermaids.
📚1️⃣9️⃣ The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey - original and complex. Explored love, gender & the legacy of slavery.
When a friend left teaching, she gifted me all the lollipop sticks which she had bought on her PGCE year and never used. (If you know you know.) I've put them to good use.
I've recently been working through the AS Level Latin language papers with my Y12s. This has highlighted a few quirks of the AS Latin DVL:
1. the DVL does not include vinum 🍷! It was glossed on the 2020 paper.
3. Whilst pulcher was glossed, on the same paper Iovis /Iuppiter was not. Interestingly, Iuppiter is specifically mentioned in the specification as a type of noun but is not included in the DVL. From the same spec point, domus and vis appear on the DVL but bos does not.
