Association For Latin Teaching

First Session

1. Classics in the Specialist Schools Programme

   Bar Roden – Diss High School (maintained comp.)
   
   Bar will share her experiences as Head of Classics in a school where Classics is part of the humanities specialism. This group will be suitable both for others involved in the Specialists Schools Programme and for anyone interested in exploiting this opportunity to promote classics in their own school. (NB Julie Wilkinson, who also has specialist knowledge in this area, will be around for most of the day.)

2. Introducing Latin to comprehensive schools – a case study

   Allison Caplan – The Bishop of Llandaff School, Cardiff (church comp.)
   
   Allison has recently started up a classics department; Latin GCSE and Class Civ AS/A2 are now on the curriculum. Find out how she did it and how numbers are being maintained. Please draw this session (and the presence of Lorna Robinson from the Iris Project) to the attention of schools/teachers of your acquaintance who might be interested but don’t necessarily receive JACT mailings.

3. Ideas for teaching and testing vocabulary and inflections

   Rachel Thomas – The Cheltenham Ladies’ College
   
   A sharing of ideas and best practice, led by a HoD with experience in both maintained and independent schools.

4. School trips to Italy & Greece

   Alison Henshaw – Nottingham Girls High School
   
   Dare one take girls to Italy? Which sites are worth visiting in Greece? Which companies provide the best service (or is it feasible to bypass them all together)? Alison will share her experience of leading trips, including joint ventures between boys’ and girls’ schools.

5. AS Latin set text essay & translation: grill an examiner

   Robert Grant – Nottingham High School
   
   Robert will give you the lowdown on how the examiner’s mind works, including an outline of marking policy

6. Using the inter-active whiteboard for Classics

   Steve Llewellyn – Gateway School, near Leeds
   
   Make the technology work for you, and see how you can cater even better for those pupils with a strong ‘visual intelligence’.

7. Hand-on ICT practice

   Julian Morgan – J-Progs
   
   Julian will be on hand in the school’s ICT rooms to help you make the most of the many classics resources now available, with particular reference to his own J-PROGS programs.

Second Session

1. Teaching Greek outside the timetable: beginners to A level

   Jeremy Thomas – King Henry VIII School, Coventry
   
   The local HoD will chair this session, looking at the various practical issues of squeezing in Greek: where to fit it in; which course to use; how to get pupils interested…He has done this successfully up to GCSE. Does anyone have experience of teaching A level this way?

2. Latin to GCSE on a minimal timescale/timetable

   Liz Scott – The Westgate School, Winchester (maintained comp.)
   
   In the course of chairing this symposium, Liz will share her own experience of teaching Latin ab initio to GCSE in two years.

3. Trips to Roman sites in the UK

   with particular reference to Hadrian’s Wall and Verulamium

   Robert Grant – Nottingham High School
   
   Feel the urge to venture beyond the CLC sites? This is the group for you.
   
   NB If you want advice on trips to Bath/Fishbourne/Chester, put this on the Booking Form: there will be plenty of fellow course members able and willing to chat over coffee/lunch/tea.

4. Classroom drama for juniors

   Linda Soames – St Hugh’s, Wantage (8-13 prep)
   
   8-13 year olds love acting (or watching their more extrovert classmates do so). This is a chance to poach/share ideas, led by ARLT’s new president.

5. Cicero Pro Milone: revision ideas for A level

   Robert West – Bradford Grammar School
   
   Robert’s sessions on Cicero are legendary. The author of Selections from Pro Milone, he combines outstanding scholarship with very practical teaching insights.

6. Using the Cambridge Latin Course DVD in the classroom

   Julie Wilkinson - Nower Hill School, Harrow (maintained comp.)
   
   Another superb communicator, Julie will demonstrate how she has been exploiting this exciting new resource, with particular reference to its use with mixed ability classes.

7. Hand-on ICT practice

   Julian Morgan – J-Progs
   
   Julian will be on hand in the school’s ICT rooms to help you make the most of the many classics resources now available, with particular reference to his own J-PROGS programs.

Third Session

1. Pompeii – Ask the experts

   Alison and Melvin (MGL) Cooley – Warwick University & King Henry VIII Coventry
   
   The joint authors of Pompeii: a Sourcebook will share their expertise and answer those awkward questions posed by inquisitive Year 7s and GCSE class. civ. students alike. (Then sit back and enjoy Alison’s lecture on graffiti in Pompeii.)

2. Promoting classics options: Latin GCSE & Class Civ A level

   • Lynda Goss – Godsall Community High School (maintained comp.)
   • Allison Caplan - The Bishop of Llandaff School, Cardiff (church comp.)

   Two colleagues who have successfully promoted classical subjects will tell us how they’ve done it. This group may stay as one or divide, according to demand. Please indicate on the booking form if you have a particular interest in one strand or the other.

3. Latin pronunciation made easy

   Wilf O’Neill MBE (for services to education)
   
   Recently retired teacher, producer of the Read it Right! computer program for ARLT, and consultant for CLC recordings, Wilf will gently tutor those nervous about their Latin pronunciation.

4. Teaching grammar through games

   Mark Davies – St Albans School
   
   The holy grail of teaching – activities that are both fun and effective.

5. Ovid Amores for AS/A2

   David Swift – Giggleswick School
   
   David’s experience of teaching classical subjects at A level in various types of school/college will undoubtedly inform this session. Do any of us ever feel we’ve really got set text teaching ‘sussed’?

6. Using classics websites in the classroom

   Hilary Walters – Loughborough Grammar School
   
   Yet another way in which ICT can enhance your teaching and your pupils’ learning; and yes it does the image of the subject no harm either! Hilary will consider the use of websites both with a data projector and with pupils sitting at their own computer.

7. Hand-on ICT practice

   • David Parsons – ARLT webmaster
   • Julian Morgan – J-PROGS

   For this session Julian will be joined by David Parsons, who will be available to give advice specifically on making the most of the ARLT website. As in the other two sessions you will also be free to try out many of the other classics resources now available, including Julian’s own J-PROGS programs.