Steven Hunt

Over coffee yesterday, Molly Willett from the Cambridge Classics outreach team told me about a visit she’d just hosted: four Year 12 students from a London school, accompanied by their teacher – who happened to be a Cambridge Classics alumna who trained on the PGCE with me. They spent the day exploring the Faculty, having a mini-seminar with an academic, enjoying lunch and being taken through the Museum of Classical Archaeology on a guided tour. They even had time to see a li

Becky Coe, me and Emma Cope - just after we had delivered our own workshop on digital grammatical analysers for Latin reading comprehension Conferences remind us why we do this work. They gather the people who care about the same strange, brilliant things we do - language pedagogy, the ancient world, the craft of teaching - and put them in a set of rooms long enough for ideas to spark. This year’s CA conference, which was held in the spectacular Business Centre of Manchester

I was in a classroom yesterday, observing lessons (which is part of my day job running the PGCE), and it occurred to me that the arrangement of the room was pretty near perfect! I mentioned it to my colleague and co--observer and she agreed that it was just about the nicest thing to have - your own classroom set out in the way that you want it. The perfect classroom? I'd advise all new teachers, especially the inexperienced, to argue for their own classroom base. In my final