Welcome to the Classics Department.
Classics at Rugby High School is flourishing. All students begin their classical education in Year 7 by following the Lingo course. This is a course based around stories of Greek myths which is also designed to give students a firm understanding of grammar to help prepare them for the demands of Latin.
As students progress into Years 8 and 9, we follow the Cambridge Latin Course which introduces Caecilius – a banker living in Pompeii just before the eruption of Vesuvius. At the end of Year 9 students have the option of continuing with Latin to GCSE. During year 10, we continue with Books 3 and 4 of the Cambridge Latin Course and in Year 11, follow the OCR specification of set texts. This can involve reading such authors as Tacitus, Caesar and Virgil.
Students can continue their classical education as they enter the Sixth Form. We offer AS and A- Level Latin and Classical Civilisation. Latin A-Level involves further work on grammar and unseen translations as well as reading a variety of authors such as Cicero and Ovid. Classical Civilisation offers the opportunity to study elements of the literature, politics, social history and religion of the Classical Greek and Roman worlds without any prior knowledge and is therefore studied all in translation.
The department also runs a classical tour to Rome and the Bay of Naples every two years and has taken year 10 students on a study weekend to Hadrian’s Wall.
Ancient Greek is also available to students in Years 9 and above as an extra-curricular activity.
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