PUPILS across west Cumbria can learn all they need to know about the Romans, from what they ate for lunch to what they used for loo roll, thanks to a new teaching aid from a Whitehaven museum.   more »

Wondered if you could help me. Am teaching A2 OCR Latin and struggling to find   more »

Teachers who use the For Teachers section of the ARLT website and who are teaching Cicero at A level will like to know that Peter Bird has contributed detailed notes on Pro Milone (the first selection).   more »

This Tuesday 21st November at midnight you can see (or probably record is more likely) a programme on a visit to the British Museum to study the Ancient Greeks, and another on following up with cross-curricular activities.   more »

Last March at the Refresher Day I came across David Carter's Workbooks for Latin set texts, and posted a recommendation here.

Now David Carter has produced several more, and has emailed me about them.   more »

This email from Will Griffiths pleased me a lot, and I'm sure he's over the moon.   more »

In the preparations for the Language Show, people came up with all kinds of goodies, including this website.   more »

As I think back to my teaching days, it seems to me that the following item from the Finnish government, as president of the EU, in their Latin news service, could provoke classroom discussion. Women's rights were a hot issue among my students, so "Feminae et potestas" might be debated in Latin; "Viri et aequalitas" could also get the little grey cells working.   more »

May I commend Bestiaria Latins News as an excellent source of all sorts of classroom ideas and goodies? One that caught my eye this morning was a   more »

The ARLT website has enjoyed a new Notice Board for several months now, so the old one is closing. Among the more recent items is this, which may interest teachers:   more »

Robert West, an experienced teacher with years of experience as an examiner - indeed I believe a chief examiner - has now published his edition of the Pro Milone AS/A2 level selection being examined in 2007.   more »

While the ARLT Summer School is fresh in our minds, I've added midi versions to the Latin songs we sing there.   more »

If you have suggestions for books to read to prepare for the Greek Religion and Sparta topics in GCSE Greek, please let me know, so that I can pass them on.   more »

Veronica Kotziamani has again come up trumps with notes on next year's prescription for the only remaining Latin GCSE syllabus.   more »

An interesting discussion of Latin teaching and learning over the years, including some of the benefits, and a plea to extend the authors that pupils read to such as St Augustine (and the New Testament in Greek).   more »

From Finland comes an attractive-looking Roman calendar for the year 2759, price 10 euros plus 3 euros postage.   more »

If you teach A level Classical Civilisation and use the AQA syllabus, then you are in clover from next year. Someone has actually published a coursebook for you and your students. And it's a real good un, as far as I can judge.    more »

The ARLT notice board has two messages from Giles Dawson who says he works for Nelson Thornes. Apparently they offer a one-year Latin to GCSE course (for which they are looking for a tutor) and also offer Latin teaching to A2 level. These are mainly by video conferencing.   more »

The University of Cambridge has launched a new distance learning course aimed at increasing access to the study of Latin.   more »

Now, tell me that's not as neat an aid to reading Latin as you will come across in a month of Sundays.   more »

I came across details of a booklet on understanding Pompeii election graffiti which one teacher says everyone teaching Cambridge Latin Course should own (for Stage 11).   more »

Following your bit about coin images, you might like to let the world know that I've just added pictures of one of the ARLT coin sets to the website   more »

Following up an item in today's Explorator, I browsed upon this page: http://www.bitsofhistory.com/ace/CI.html   more »

I was really turned round by the launch of the EU-sponsored Circe project on Friday.   more »

Here is the song of the first declension:   more »

Here is my song to help pupils learn the declension of the relative pronoun in Latin:   more »

We have taken the most essential Latin rules, endings, vocabulary, and forms and created 29 songs set to familiar tunes   more »

Julian Morgan led an option group at the ARLT Summer School in 1994 about CIRCE, an EU initiative to provide a whole load of resources for Classics teaching throughout Europe.

At the time it was very much 'work in progress'; now it is being launched upon the waiting world.   more »

Some discoveries reported in Explorator caught my eye this week:   more »

David Carter came to the ARLT Refresher Day with copies of his GCSE set text editions, and he did a good sales job - I saw several copies being bought.   more »

The Hellenic Society (Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies) have 4 special offers which I picked up at the Refresher Day on Saturday.   more »

OUP has published a translation of Livy 21-30 entitled Hannibal's War.   more »

I see Bexley Grammar School want a Classics teacher for one year:   more »

. Roman coins are still reasonably priced - as long as you don't go for gold or the larger silver coins, and if you are content with coins in moderate condition.   more »

Gerard Stevens, following the noble tradition of the ARLT: "by practising teachers for practising teachers," has donated a collection of resources for teaching the Cicero Pro Milone selections (both A and B) for A level.   more »