Roman soldiers invade Hull museum

Roman soldiers invade Hull Museum
from This is Hull
07:00 – 28-July-2008
A Hull museum was under siege when soldiers invaded the building.
The invasion took place at Hull and East Riding Museum in High Street and Roman soldiers carried out a day-long raid at the venue.
Thankfully, they proved to be a friendly bunch, with some even letting guests [...]

Latin alive and well at Longcroft

Hurrah! An English secondary school has got into the local paper for its Latin, the way American schools seem to do all the time.
This is from the Beverley Guardian
Latin alive and well at Longcroft
STUDENTS at Beverley’s Longcroft School and Performing Arts College have been proving that Latin – often referred to as a dead language [...]

Hadrian film to be made

Perhaps this one really will happen.
From Variety
Brit helmer John Boorman is reviving his long-mooted project about the life of Roman Emperor Hadrian, most famous in Blighty for building the eponymous wall that separated England and Scotland.
U.K.-based Handmade Films has boarded the $50 million-$60 million project and will be fully financing “Hadrian.” Rome-based Olympus Films will [...]

Quizlet, a free online flashcard and testing site

As an alternative to the commercial Quia, teachers might like to try out Quizlet.
There are many Latin quizzes and tests already there, and by free registration (they promise they will send no spam to those who register) you can make your own.
From a quick look at the forum section, I conclude that it’s chiefly students [...]

ARLT Summer School/INSET 2008 video diary day 4

The video diary is here. (4m. 10s.)
On Thursday Will Griffiths and friends led 3 sessions on using IT in Latin teaching. There’s a glimpse of the course group photo, and a mention of the AGM, and of Dr Mark Bradley’s lecture on Colour and Meaning in Ancient Sculpture. There’s a bit of an [...]

ARLT Summer School/INSET 2008 video diary day 3

The video diary is here (5m.37s.)
It includes a fairly full report of Tom Harrison on [modern scholarly trends on] Herodotus, with shorter mentions of Dr. Kathryn on Cicero and Wilf O’Neill on Classical motifs in the modern world. The trip to Lincoln is mentioned, but will have its own slide show on line soon.

ARLT Summer School/INSET 2008 video diary day 2

The video diary is here. (4m. 34s.)
It covers the Tuesday. There are comments on breakfast-time behaviour, another Option Group, coffee time underneath the colonnade, Dr Kathryn Tempest on Cicero’s first Catiline, and Ashley Carter on the new A level syllabus in Latin. There is a brief excerpt from a choir rehearsal.

ARLT Summer School/INSET 2008 video diary day 1

The video diary is here (3m.26s.)
It covers an introduction to the venue and the course and explanation of Option Groups and their value, with an account of one particular Option Group session.
There is also a brief account of a lecture by Dr Patrick Finglass on the Joy of Homeric Epithets.

New Oxford translations in paperback

For once, the OUP mailing’s first notices are all of books that a school teacher may well find useful:

The AnnalsThe Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and [...]

Garstang Courier on the joys of Latin

Garstang Courier – transcript below
LATIN has been studied in British schools for centuries,but has not featured as a staple of the national curriculum for more than 40 years.Nowadays,the study of Latin often splits opinion – some say it is key to understanding the modern English language,yet others believe it to be useless and [...]