Latin is offered as a second language choice in Year 8. We follow the Cambridge Latin Course, learning the Latin language through stories set in Pompeii, Roman Britain and Alexandria. The language is taught in a systematic and structured way, enabling pupils to understand and appreciate the grammatical workings, as well as the origins, of our own langage. Links are regularly made between Latin, English and the modern languages which the pupils study.
| After two years pupils can choose to continue with Latin to GCSE level. Pupils study for the OCR GCSE Latin exam. This involves four exam papers – two language, one literature and one which can be literature or history. |
We continue to follow the Cambridge Latin Course during Year 10, improving the fluency of translation and comprehension work and learning about life in Rome during the 1st century A.D.
Towards the end of Year 10 and into Year 11 we start to read extracts from Latin authors such as Virgil, Pliny, Catullus, Horace, Martial and Tacitus. For the GCSE literature exams pupils are required to answer questions on the content and style of passages they have studied. The optional history paper involves the study and analysis of primary source material as a means of learning about life in the classical world.
