These audio files are not the high quality ARLT productions, which concentrate on verse set texts, but a personal contribution by the Blogger, offered for what they are worth.   more »

Having been given a nudge by a teacher who is beginning to teach a Common Entrance form in a prep school after Christmas, I looked up the non-linguistic syllabus and cobbled together a page of links to sites that might be helpful. It's here.

It's not finished yet, but there are 27 hand-picked links there already, on such topics as ...   more »

Students who use computers frequently at school perform worse than their peers at maths and reading, a study claims.

Those using computers several times a week performed "sizably and statistically significantly worse" than those who used them less often.   more »

I came across this memorable lesson when browsing old articles in Education Guardian. You can read the whole article here.

One lesson I remember was during my A-levels. We were working on the Comedy of Errors - the soliloquy that starts "I to the world am like a drop of water" - but instead of sitting in class, we had to   more »

I have just added a page (http://www.arlt.co.uk/dhtml/christmas_cards.php) of Latin greetings and quotations, together with images, which can be printed off and given to a class as ingredients for making a Latin Christmas card for a friend (amico, amicae) or parents (matri, patri, parentibus).   more »

We can now supply three new tests on Seneca set texts and some Cicero practice unseens, thanks to Hilary Walters. They are in the password-protected section (For Teachers) of the ARLT web-site.

A word of explanation about registering for the 'For Teachers' section. When you fill in the form ...   more »