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How the Direct Method, described in detail in this article, could be combined with the Latin courses at present in use is an interesting question.   more »

I was interested to find that a Roman glass jug has just been sold on e-bay for just $9.90.   more »

Steven Jenkin of Francis Holland School has contacted us to tell about his website. It is all to the good to have another place to share teaching resources.   more »

Grammar sheets can be downloaded from the JACT Latin Summer School notice.   more »

The OCR exam board is devising the ancient history GCSE to cater for a surge in interest in the Romans and ancient Greeks.   more »

I've made a podcast of chapters 15-16 of Pro Roscio   more »

Podcasts by Clive Madel of Camden School for Girls are available   more »

OUP has published a collection of essays on Seneca. Also there is an independently produced GCSE Latin Resource Book.   more »

This is just floating an idea. The decision of QCA that set texts in Latin and Greek AS and A2 will be different means that many schools with small Sixth Form groups will no longer be able to teach set texts to both Upper and Lower Sixth students in the same class.   more »

You might like to see how another school does it.   more »

The active use of Latin in speaking and writing, in addition to the reading of Latin texts, is one of the cornerstones of this sequence in Latin Studies.   more »

Some audio on GCSE Latin texts produced for Camden School for Girls has been generously put on line here:   more »

"I would especially encourage fellow teachers to come along who might have an interest in using more spoken Latin in the classroom so that ideas can be exchanged."   more »

The direct link to recent OCR A level Latin papers is here.   more »

It's been brought to my attention that under the new specification the set books for AS and A2 are different.   more »

There's a CD with Latin grammar songs advertised here. An article about a teacher who uses songs in his teaching is here.   more »

Those recordings of the 2009-2010 set texts are now on line here.   more »

his is the Peter O'Toole mini-series from 1981.   more »

Our school has justy been awarded specialist language college status and I wondered if any fellow Classicists out there had experience of teaching classics in such an establishment and was willing to share ideas ?   more »

The CD of 2008-9 Latin verse prescriptions for the OCR exams read by ArLT members is now ready.   more »

If you haven't explored the JACT website recently, you may not have found a page of Latin resources.   more »

Our President is to meet OCR next week to discuss GCSE changes. She sends this message:   more »

Agamemnon essay titles, Medea questions, Hippolytus questions, Tacitus test, Themes in the Odyssey (7 pages), introduction to epic (3 pages), notes to Oedipus Tyrannus (24 pages), Odyssey worksheets with answers (36 pages), intro and notes to OT (11 pages) - these have all been submitted to the OCR Classics Community pages this week.   more »

Visitors to the For Teachers section of the ArLT website will find, under GCSE Classical Civilisation, a page for each topic in the syllabus, subdivided into sub-topics.   more »

Monica Swinburne made available at the ArLT Cambridge Summer School (INSET) her resources for teaching Aeneid 12, on the A level syllabus for the next two years. She has now kindly offered these resources for the Teachers' Section of the ArLT website.   more »

The core of the ArLT songbook was the book of songs by our founder, Rouse, which he wrote for his pupils to help them remember their Latin and Greek. Those songs were written for those days. I think we need similar songs for today.   more »

Textbooks usually show a photo of those infamous slave chains, and artists' impressions of slaves in Roman Britain. Now you can add pictures ...   more »

Google Docs is designed so that many people can share in creating and editing each document. It strikes me as a good tool for sharing teaching materials, with each teacher able to add to and improve the document.   more »

Common sense, really, like not staring at the sun, but I pass on this warning from the BBC:   more »

Head teachers say they are pleased that coursework will not be lost altogether and will remain in the form of extended work done in school.   more »

Following his recent message, Kris Waite has kindly given us his list of poetical words likely to come up in A2 Latin unseens.   more »

Atriades has noted a vocab learning tool on the Perseus site, which might go some way to helping with the compilation of a list as requested in yesterday's post.   more »