Classics for All Resource Hub

KS4 resources will be coming soon!

For any advice and training on teaching classics to Key Stage 4 please email grants@classicsforall.org.uk

The Teachers’ section (free log-in required) contains lesson plans, information, and a wide range of teaching materials created by teachers delivering GCSE and A-level language and set text papers.

While set texts change every 2 years, it's worth looking back for previous appearances in earlier years.

With a 50 year history of development and revision, the Cambridge Latin Course (CLC) has established itself as the leading beginner's course for Latin. 

Both Eduqas and OCR examination boards endorse the CLC for GCSE teaching. 

Aims of the CLC: to teach comprehension of the Latin language for reading purposes; to develop an understanding of the history and culture of Roman civilisation; to encourage a wide range of approaches to language learning through the use of high quality audio-visual resources. Visit the website for more information, lesson plans, and additional resources.

John Taylor's Greek to GCSE has become a standard resource for students in the UK and for readers across the world who are looking for a clear and thorough introduction to the language of the ancient Greeks.

Revised throughout and enhanced by coloured artwork and text features, this edition will support the new OCR specification for Classical Greek (first teaching 2016), and is endorsed by OCR. 

Lesson plans and an answer-key are available via the website (login required).

Classics for All has produced these videos for GCSE students studying Ancient Greek who may not have had the opportunity to hear the texts read in the original Greek. 

With thanks to the A. G. Leventis Foundation for its generous support for Classics for All's Electra programme which works to introduce and develop the teaching of Ancient Greek in state schools.

The Warwick Classics Network has worked together with Classics for All  to create a suite a resources, starting with Ancient History GCSE. 

This is the first phase of a joint project which has involved the collaboration of a team of academics and teachers across the country, spearheaded by Peter Wright of Blackpool Sixth Form (teacher of the year at the Times Education Supplement Further Educations Awards 2015), with major contributions from Anna McOmish of Aldridge School and Dr Maria Haley of the University of Leeds and Classics for All North, as well as content from Ben Windsor of HASLA, Kirsty Churchill of Cardinal Newman School, and a bit of tweaking and website design by Dr Paul Grigsby of WCN.

Dave Midgley and Helen Taylor are Director of Humanities and Head of History respectively at Parrs Wood High School and teach Ancient History at GCSE and A Level. 

They have created Stupid Ancient History is a series of video/blogs which can be accessed via Youtube.

The videos cover topics such as the Foundation of Rome, The Persians, Cleopatra, Alexander the Great, and GCSE Exam Skills.

AIE illustrates the relevance of ancient Athenian inscriptions, especially those of the classical period (c. 500-300 BC), to pre-18 education. They aim to help teachers introduce inscriptions into their teaching as a way of captivating their students’ imagination and fostering enthusiasm for the ancient Greek world.

The resources include teachers’ notes and slides, and underline the textual and visual potential of inscriptions. Through inscriptions, learners benefit from the bringing to life of the ancient world. At the same time, they hope that introducing students at pre-18 level to inscriptions will encourage them to explore ancient source material of their own accord, and will help them to ‘bridge the gap’ into University study if they chose to pursue it. 

In their Introduction to AIE for Teachers resource you can find more ideas about using inscriptions in the classroom. They also offer slides which introduce learners of all ages to Greek inscriptions.

Francesca Grilli from Runshaw College has created an amazing set of videos as part of the Warwick Classics Network /Classics for All resource collaboration. 

Francesca is Course Leader for Classics at Runshaw College in Leyland. For more info about Runshaw Classics follow them on Twitter @RunshawClassics, or subscribe to their Youtube Channel. 

The videos have content relevant to the study of Myth and Religion at GCSE and include some of the prescribed visual and material sources for OCR Class Civ GCSE.

The British School at Athens (BSA) have created a Resource Pack for GCSE Classical Civilisation Myth and Religion, collecting together a unique collection of images that come from the BSA archive. 

The BSA is a research institute founded in 1886 that leads, co-ordinates and facilitates research in Greece and the surrounding lands. Much of this work is archaeological, and the BSA has been involved with many important archaeological discoveries over the last 130 years.

Romans in focus is a series of free five-minute videos created by the Cambridge Schools Classics Project that take a closer look at what life was really like under the Roman empire, from displays of power under Augustus, to identity and life as a soldier stationed in northern Britain. 

Each of the eight topics aims to explore and examine those who were often invisible in Latin literature, and to challenge and debate some of our most common misconceptions about these people and their lives.