Steven Hunt

Yesterday we held the June meeting of the Classics PGCE Mentors at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. We asked what the Mentors got out of being involved in the partnership with the PGCE in mentoring student teachers with us. Subject mentors identified a range of professional benefits and sources of satisfaction arising from their involvement in initial teacher education. A prominent theme was the opportunity for professional reflection. Mentors valued discuss

Saturday 20th June saw the Hands Up [Suburani] Summer Conference in the Museum of London - soon to become the London Museum when it reopens to the general public later this year in the old Smithfield market buildings - a fantastic space for their huge collection. As is always the case, the Hands Up Conference showcased a good number of options for Classics teachers. The ones I went to included talks on Handling Artefacts, Reading Latin from Left to Right, Ideas for Retrieval

A Changing Educational Context Ancient languages teaching in schools currently operates within a distinctive educational environment. National policy provides relatively little specific guidance for subjects such as Latin and Greek, creating a vacuum that is often filled by influential figures in educational discourse, published media commentary (especially on unfiltered social media) and school-wide pedagogical fashions. Examples include ‘Knowledge-Rich’ curricula, cold-call