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The Association for Latin Teaching
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8.8.21
Visualising War Project
Designed to investigate how war is thought of and written about, including how it is taught in the secondary school curriculum. More information and links to sign-
27.7.21
Website developments
Please note that there will shortly be a redevelopment of this website.
18.6.21
Summer School Option Groups Change of Leader and title of Option D4, Teaching and Learning of Latin .
16.4.21
Online Latin/Greek
Does anyone know of any online Greek/Latin reading groups for adults? Please contact Margaret Page if you can help.
24.3.21
ARLT Summer School 2021
Online booking is now live:
https://www.trybooking.co.uk/BABJ
21.3.21
Refresher Day 2021
Resources and Feedback form available here.
8.3.21
Latin Reading Competition
Results of the 2021 competition now available here
6.3.21
Summer School 2021
Further details now available here
16.2.21
CA Conference
Registration is open for this year’s CA Conference online 6 – 8 April 2021. Register for free here.
17.11.20
Proposal for the establishment of an intermediate-
2.11.20
An International Student's Guide to UK University (COVID-
the guide is free, informative, and relevant to these times. More here.
10.10.20
ARLT Autumn Teachmeet 2020 online:
30.9.20
Open Book Publishers
The Bavarian Commentary and Ovid is the first complete critical edition and translation of the earliest preserved commentary on Ovid’s Metamorphoses. This title is freely available to read and download in PDF format. Details here
25.8.20
ARLT Autumn Teachmeet 2020 online:
This teachmeet is designed to bring teachers together to discuss pedagogy and best practice in the classroom, especially in light of current circumstances. For details and link to sign-
20.8.20
CATB Exam Survey
The Classical Association Teaching Board would like feedback from Classics teachers on this year’s GCSE and A Level grade awarding process and the ongoing impact of school closures on preparations for next year’s exams. Please fill in this short questionnaire which will allow us to provide support where needed and to liaise with the exam boards about the impact on schools and on pupils. https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/89TTKMW
Thank you, Jess Dixon, CATB Exams Officer
3.8.20
Coming soon
ARLT “TeachMeet online”
Saturday 10th October, directed by Rachael Hopley. Detals to follow
31.7.20
Summer School 2020
Report here. Resources now available in the For Teachers section (login required)
26.6.20
Classical Association CPD day on Ancient History, on Thursday 23 July online. More info. here.
11.6.20
Delay to new set texts for Latin and Classical Greek
From OCR here:
30.5.20
Summer School 2020
23.5.20
Summer School 2020 update. Provisional timetable and option groups available here
9.5.20
28.4.20
CA online teaching resources: in response to increasing demand for online resources to support home learning during lock-
21.4.20
Eduqas GCSE Latin Paper 3 Narratives :Pliny The Eruption of Vesuvius. 8 files produced by Lauren Bright for Refresher Day 2020, now available here
5.4.20
Ofqual GCSEs and A levels 2020 update
Message from Rhian Dent
Senior Manager – Standards, Ofqual. Read here
5.4.20
New digital resources for teaching Classics in the ForTeachers section
21.3.20
Coronavirus ARLT Summer School 2020
Whilst we are currently expecting the Summer School to go ahead as advertised, the situation may change in line with government advice or instruction. In the present climate of uncertainty, we have decided to temporarily suspend bookings for this event. Please check back here regularly for further updates.
15.3.20
Latin and Greek readings
A wide range of recordings of Latin and Greek texts is now available here
15.3.20
ARLT Latin Reading Competition 2020
The results of this year’s competition are now available here.
13.3.20
Refresher Day 2020
Resources produced for this day are now available here
5.3.20
Summer School 2020
Further details and Booking Form now available here
15.1.20 -
Bursaries for Schoolteachers at CA Conference 2020
The CA is offering all schoolteachers the opportunity to attend the Swansea conference (17 -
Conference website: https://www.swansea.ac.uk/arts-
Registration website: https://intranet.swan.ac.uk/OnlineStore/Products/Details/1754.
15.1.20
ARLT Refresher Day 2020
Full information now available here.
7.12.19
Margaret Drury
Long-
28.11.19
ARLT Latin Reading Competition -
22.11.19
The Unexpected Benefits of Learning Latin for Children
17.9.19
More resources from the Summer School available here. Login required.
28.8.19
The Actors of Dionysus are offering outreach drama and Classics workshops for pupils at key stage 3 and above -
3.8.19
Check here for a report on the 2019 Summer School
17.7.19
JCT, the Journal of Classics Teaching is now online and open access
9.7.19
ARLT Refresher Day 2020
To be directed by Jessica Dixon at the London Oratory School on Saturday 7th March. Details here in due course.
17.3.19
Latin Reading Competition: the results for this year’s competition are now available here
17.3.19
ARLT Refresher Day 2019: teaching resources produced for this event are now available. Go to login for access.
6.3.19
ARLT Summer School 2019:
Download amended flyer and booking form here
13.1.19
The Ultimate Guide to University interviews -
17.11.18
8-
6.8.18
Dates for your Diary:
ARLT Refresher Day: at Loughborough Grammar School
2 March 2019 -
ARLT Summer School 2019
at Cheltenham College:
29.7.19 -
30.6.18
Memorial Service
for Roger Davies: on Saturday 6th October, 11.00am, Lord Wandsworth College, in The Gavin Hall. Contact Gill Kelly for details.
22.5.18
GDPR
The ARLT Privacy Policy is now available for download here.
13.4.18
Read the obituary for former ARLT member, Helen Anscomb.
27.3.18
Advance warning:
At the end of this month, Serif Web Resources is closing its support for “Smart Objects”. This means a forced change in the way a number of pages on the ARLT site operate, including the Registration and the Teachers’ Resources page. Please visit login page, to see how to re-
26.3.18
Read the Obituary
for Roger Davies, available here.
25.3.18
Announcement of competition 2018-
The Academy Vivarium novum is offering ten full-
16.3.18
Results of the ARLT Latin Reading Competition are now available here.
8.2.18
Summer School 2018: booking form revised.
31.1.18
Refresher Day: full details and booking form now available here
28.1.18
Further details and Booking Form for Summer School 2018 at Uppingham School now available here
9.1.18
Yet more sadness today, with the passing of Robert West, after a long illness. His Obituary is here.
21.12.17
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Roger Davies. Tributes and obituary.
8.12.17
Confirmed dates for ARLT 2018 Refresher Day,
Saturday 3 March, Nower Hill
Monday 30 July -
27.10.17
8-
University College Cork, Ireland
June 18th – August 9th 2018
25.10.17
ARLT Latin Reading Competition 2018: details for the competition are now available here
13.9.17
You can follow ARLT on Twitter and on Facebook
8.8.17
Summer School 2017
Here is the report on our Summer School at Uppingham. You may expect further additions and amendments over the next few days.
13.7.17
Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge, Madingley Hall,
We are now inviting applications for our 2017/18 programme of part-
8.7.17
A Latin teacher
is needed for pupils aged 10-
22.4.17
Announcement of Competition
The Academy Vivarium Novum .. Applications closed
14.4.17
Summer School 2017
The venue and dates for the 2017 Summer School are as follows:
Uppingham School, Rutland
Mon.31st July -
16.3.17
ARLT Refresher Day 2017
Resource materials from this INSET day can now be found here , more to be added.
16.3.17
Reading Competition 2017
Results of the ARLT Latin Reading Competition are now available here
16.10.16
Latin set text recordings
Readings made by ARLT for the Latin set texts for 2017 are now available here
2.10.16
Classics for All
For technical reasons to do with updating computers, Peter Jones has lost many of the email addresses of the CfA reviewers. Would they please email him at his new address -
7.7.16
It is with sadness that we report the recent death of Peter Newey, a faithful supporter of ARLT.
23.3.16
Five best books on Learning Latin
Harry Mount and Katie Walker discuss.
Also available as a podcast
10.9.15
National Curriculum grade descriptors for Latin available on the syllabus page
25.8.15
Imperium Latin Course by Julian Morgan:
Now available free of charge from TES Resources. Full details here.
28.6.15
Virgil Society:
Recording of Aeneid Book IV, directed by John Hazel on our audio page
21.6.15
Higher Education Academy
Workshop and Project materials now available in the For Teachers section. Login required.
26.3.15
Joan Newey
Read the obituary for Joan Newey here
31.12.14
With the merger of JACT and the CA, the teaching materials which were formerly hosted on the JACT website, will now be available on this site. To access the materials, you will need to register and/or login, in the normal way.
26.12.14
Joan Newey
It is with great sadness that we report the death of ARLT member, Joan Newey, who passed away on Sunday 21st December. Our condolences go out to Peter. her husband. The funeral will be on 16th January 2015 at 3.00pm at the Downs crematorium, Brighton. Anyone from ARLT would be very welcome.
2.8.14
The History of ARLT in Latin
Read John Hazel’s account here
26.9.13
New from Open Book Publishers:
Tacitus Annals 15.20-
4.9.13
“Read it Right”, the work of Wilf O’Neill and previously featured on his website, is now available through ARLT here
25.6.13
Julian Morgan is a good friend of ARLT and well known for his resources for Classics. Here is his announcement of a brand new course for teaching Latin.
1.5.13
Read Wilf O’Neill’s obituary here
18.12.12
TWEET in Latin? See our Blog or go direct to the Twitter Translation Service
29.11.12
Open Book Publishers: Aeneid 4. 1-
Information about this newly released publication is available here.
18/8
Classical Anthology website
a new venture set up by Jane Mason in collaboration with Stephen Jenkin; it is linked to the Classics Library, but open to everyone. Website | flyer
Quick Links
This site is for anyone interested in the teaching and learning of Latin and, inter alia, includes : -
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