This item may not have a place in this blog, but since it supports what I have maintained since the opening of Kidbrook Comprehensive School, that small(ish) is beautiful in schools, I indulge myself.   more »

The new Education Secretary seems to have a background in economics. The big question is whether he has the self-control to refrain from meddling in the education system.   more »

You might like to look at the Times correspondence on the return of the Latin Mass.   more »

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

I am not sure if you are able to help but I work at South Cheshire College and we are looking for a Latin Tutor who would be able to teach in the Crewe area starting in September.   more »

To hear Peter Jones suggesting Latin mottoes for Gordon Brown on Radio 4 go to   more »

The Guardian confirms what I suspected, that Gordon Brown's school motto is in Latin,   more »

A 9-year-old is doing a sponsored walk of Hadrian's Wall for charity. The website is here.   more »

"Essentially a post-Blair A-level is worth a whole grade less than a pre-Blair A-level."   more »

The intention to include a modern language in future was a recommendation of the Dearing review into the sharp decline that came after language study was made optional beyond the age of 14. The intention is that the indicator will feature in the 2008 tables. It will not, however, include classical languages,   more »

There is a struggle under way, taking place in plain view, for the soul of Rome’s historic center: in one corner sit the forces of restraint, etiquette and cultural preservation, in the other the unswerving desire for just one more round of drinks.   more »

The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) has issued its proposals for GCSE Latin criteria, and there are important changes.   more »

Other teachers may well carry on a lively e-dialogue with their pupils on school intra-nets, but this one is public for us all to get ideas from.   more »

Two Israeli researchers believe ancient human remains discovered at Masada in the 1960s, and given a full Jewish burial by Israeli authorities, may in fact be Romans.   more »

Want to get into a serious debate with Joseph Scheer about whether the study of Latin still belongs in Washington County classrooms?   more »

Here's a modern equivalent of Erasmus from Australia. It isn't clear if this is a one-off or part of a series. There's a second dialogue on the website.   more »

My National Trust mailing that arrived recently lists West Country events:   more »

Spiegel has a summary of the story of an Archimedes text deciphered from a palimpsest, which also contains other possibly interesting texts:   more »

A piece about an American Latin teacher retiring might be of interest.   more »

we were quite unprepared for just how popular the production would prove to be and had I known that we'd sell out 2 days before opening I would have tried to find a bigger theatre!   more »

The conference will take place at the Classics Centre, University of Oxford, on Saturday November 11th 2008, with distinguished speakers from Oxford, Manchester and The Open University.   more »

The Director, Rob Soames, has sent the final programme, option group choices, college map and so on for the INSET to be held in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge from Sunday 22nd to Wednesday 25th July.   more »

There's a long excerpt from Are We Rome? by Cullen Murphy,   more »

Nothing vital this morning, so just some links:   more »

The OCR Classics e-community is busy pooling arguments for and quotations about the uses of learning Latin.   more »

The second Latin Summer School at The Benedictine Study & Arts Centre, Ealing Abbey, London will run for two weeks in Summer 2007.   more »

A Roman road has been found by workers building a controversial £840m natural gas pipeline across Wales.   more »

A little more on the visit of the Germans to Walltown:   more »

The Latin Mass Society is organising a residential training conference at Merton College, Oxford from Tuesday 28 ­ Thursday 30 August for priests ordained within   more »

A very short video showing the field where the mosaic was located.   more »

A booklet was published in the 1990s called something like Careers for Classicists, giving just the statistical and anecdotal information that might impress parents and school careers advisors. Has anyone got a copy?   more »

From Qultures.com, an article on the project (Rome Reborn) to provide a digital reconstruction of ancient Rome.   more »

You will have seen the trailer by now, but even such an infrequent TV watcher as myself knows that the second series of Rome is starting on 20th June.   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 »

The Rhine Romans (Legio Prima) from Bonn, Germany, arrive for the Pax Britannica event on Hadrian’s Wall at Greenhead.   more »

Latin came alive Monday at Bridgewater-Raritan Middle School as students created a museum to illustrate what they have learned about the ancient language.   more »

THE historic Roman Town House in Dorchester is getting a cash boost to improve its facilities for visitors.   more »

Thanks to Patruus of the Google Latin group for this:   more »

Another useful item from David Meadows: Classical Greek online here.

The group starting on Monday 18th June will be using Hillard and Botting: Elementary Greek Exercises.   more »

David Meadows commends this article in Cosmos Magazine and it does look good,   more »

Because Tenney is the last remaining Latin teacher in London's secondary system -- including both the Thames Valley District school board and the London District Catholic school board.   more »

"Just wanted to give you gyus the tip, my wife graduated from Harvard this morning, and the first of the three student speeches was the annual Latin salutatory (apparently a tradition dating back to the first Harvard commencement in 1642, when of course they studied a heck of a lot more Latin). ...   more »

The results of the CICERO Latin competition are now on the VICTORES page of the competition website and the competition organisers (Patrick, Markus and I) are delighted to be able to publish our congratulations.   more »

And now we have the bestselling Percy Jackson stories by the American author Rick Riordan, of which this is the third. Percy is Perseus, a demi-god or "half-blood": his father is Poseidon, god of the sea, and his mother a mere mortal. His ballpoint pen becomes his trusty sword, his watch his shield. He's a 21st-century teenage hero.   more »

Combining a little bit of math, social studies, science, and English, seventh graders from Southeast Middle School built a modern day classroom aqueduct.   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 »

You probably already know about the OCR Classics Community, a forum for teachers of the OCR Classical syllabuses, at OCR Classics Community .   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 »

I am trying to put together a list of commonly used poetical vocabulary for the A2 examination   more »

Colleagues may like to note the Roman activities in the Chester City Council Exhibitions and Events leaflet   more »

For just this week you can read the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography life of this minor Roman emperor free, here.   more »

J W Gough, in his 'The Mines of Mendip' comments that, according to Pliny, Britain became the chief source of lead in the Roman Empire, and that it was found so abundantly near the surface of the ground that a law was passed to limit production.   more »

Jerusalem's fall, and the consequent loss of status of Jews in the Roman Empire, was mostly sheer bad luck.   more »

The Pax Britannica school day takes place on Monday, June 11 at Walltown recreation site on Hadrian’s Wall from 9.30am to 3.30pm and costs £3.50 per students.   more »

One person who's spent time looking at the Roman people with wonder and sympathy - and endless fascination - is author Simon Young.   more »

Visitors to the Lunt Roman Fort in Baginton were transported back to the year 400 AD during the bank holiday weekend. A special weekend of re-enactments were on display by Comitatus, Britain's largest Late Roman re-enactment group.   more »