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Joint Association of Classical Teachers

  • JACT is a registered charity that aims to improve and maintain the quality of the teaching of classics.  They run inset days, summer schools and provide a wide range of teaching resources.

Association for Latin Teaching

  • The main aims of this association are to provide refresher/inset days each March, a summer school and a range of teaching resources for loan or hire. The website also has a very useful 'links' guide to online teaching and learning resources.

Perseus Project

  • This is a digital library that provides a wide range of source material; ancient texts with translations, images and a very useful links section. 

The Classics Pages

  • This provides a wide range of information about the life, literature, art and archaeology of the ancient world of Greece & Rome.

VROMA

  • This website provides on-line resources for teaching Latin and ancient Roman culture.

Minimus

  • Minimus is a primary Latin course which introduces the Latin language and culture of Roman Britain via comic strips, stories and myths. 

Cambridge Schools Classics Project

  • The Cambridge Schools Classics Project aims to help make the classical world accessible to as many students as possible.  Recent innovations include the Cambridge Online Latin Project and the Iliad Project, both specifically devised for new learners.

The Classical Association

  • This is the largest classical organisation in Great Britain and has a world wide membership.  It aims to unite 'the interests of all who value the study of the languages, literature and civilisation of ancient Greece and Rome'.

Friends of Classics

  • This is a society for anyone who is interested in the ancient Greeks and Romans.  The website includes an archive of Peter Jones' column in The Spectator called 'Ancient and Modern'.  

The Romans website

A treasure trove of interesting and useful things, created by Antony Kamm with additional material by Andrew Wilson.

 

The Open University

Open University, the largest university for part-time higher education in the UK, has excellent interactive webpages for Latin and Greek.

If you've never learnt any Greek words or letters before, now's your chance! www.open.ac.uk/Arts/greek/index.html

You can also have a go at recognising Latin word endings with this fun quiz page: www.open.ac.uk/Arts/interactiveLatin/

 

Classical Workbooks - Perfect for distance-learners who don't have access to tuition at school

http://www.classicalworkbooks.com

Classical Workbooks help students to master the books set for Latin & Greek GCSE and A-Level. Introduced in 2006, they have quickly become very popular - 1 student in every 3 who takes AS Latin now uses a Classical Workbook.