Latin Resources

In recent years, Latin has experienced a resurgence in popularity in the UK, with more schools offering Latin classes as a subject. Once considered a niche subject, Latin is now recog...

Latin is a language, as dead as dead can be. It killed the ancient Romans, and now it’s killing me!This rhyme is known by many Latin pupils and teachers and I have heard my own pup...

To some, studying Latin may seem outdated and they struggle to see the relevance of it today. However, at Ardvreck School, we take a creative approach to teaching Latin it is far from...

PARTICIPLESA participle is a combination of a verb and an adjective. When we take a verb and make an adjective out of it, we have constructed a verbal adjective or participle. The tal...

GCSE Latin Grammar Notes Lesson 5 (Following Cullen and Taylor: Latin to GCSE)Indirect QuestionsTranslate into Latin:1. We asked the girl where she had come from. puel...

The Cambridge Latin Course (CLC) has an awful lot to answer for, not least the line Caeciius est in horto ( Caecilius is in the garden ), the dimly-remembered phrase often quoted...

This is one of the most difficult questions in the exam, because it requires both linguistic knowledge and a literary appreciation of the text. In question 2a of Section B in the curr...

It seems to be a trend in current classics teaching to provide as little grammar instruction as possible, on the grounds that it supposedly detracts from students` enjoyment of the su...

Which aspects of Cicero's attack on Verres do you find most effective in the sections of the speech you have studied? (10) In section 53 Cicero portrays Verres as a plunderer of th...