Gem Adams

Curriculum Leader of Classics in Leeds. Passionate about promoting the study of #classics in state schools!🏺 Previously Gem Williams (she/her)

[Classics for All North @ClassicsNorth]

KS3 English teachers! There's still time to register for our Ovid competition. From Sept 2025, if you teach the mythology from Ovid's Metamorphoses, we award prizes to the most creative responses from your students. Find out more or sign up below. #storytelling #literacy #create

[Annelise Gray @AnneliseGray]

❤️☺️ Hope your pupils enjoy them @GAdamsClassics! Keep up the good work, flying the flag for Classics. 🙌

[Gem Adams @GAdamsClassics]

I added the Circus Maximus books into the @Allerton_Grange school library today! 📚 Thank you so much to @AnneliseGray for the bookmarks and book plates! 🥰

[Classics for All North @ClassicsNorth]

Sign up for our free online CPD session for KS2 and KS3 teachers - further info https://t.co/Sj6o8qJpVq @CarolineLawrenc @Caecilius_CLC @LEJenksBrown @GAdamsClassics @Classical_Assoc @classicsforall @histassoc @HistoryHit @HistoryPrimary @Mr_S_Tiffany @Ramble14 @HistoricEngland

[Angela O'Brien @GrecianGirly]

***📚Book Giveaway📚***
Copies of Homer’s ‘The Iliad’ and ‘The Odyssey’, translated by Emily Wilson. Please retweet to enter. Winner to be drawn at random. Entries from both UK and abroad welcome. Last day for entry is 14/03/2025. Good Luck. 🙂🤞

[Natalie Haynes @officialnhaynes]

Thank you for suggesting so many great schools & libraries! Receiving the 8 books is @WSFC_Official, nominated by Nina Rinke!
Runners up who will also receive books are @MoffatAcademy, Tyldesley Library @WiganLibraries, and @Allerton_Grange (nominated by @GAdamsClassics) ❤️📚

[@edithmayhall @edithmayhall]

Just finished a book with @ProfArleneHH after 7 years gestation, midterm complications and painful birth. It will be out this year to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Classical Civilisation qualifications in UK schools. Yeehaw @ClassCivAncHist @Classical_Assoc @Durham_Classics

[Gem Adams @GAdamsClassics]

Just incredible! 👏👏👏

[ACE Classics @ClassCivAncHist]

@profarlenehh’s #research and #engagement work @durham_classics @durham_uni to widen access to #classical subjects in schools is featured in today’s @guardian #TransformativeHumanities @ahrcpress @british_academy @PDJSwallow @edithmayhall

https://t.co/J4Y7uYFu31

[Gem Adams @GAdamsClassics]

@ProfArleneHH @guardian Absolutely incredible!! X

[Professor Arlene Holmes-Henderson MBE @ProfArleneHH]

Delighted to start the year with some good news thanks to @guardian

GCSE Classical Civilisation entries are up 34% in the last 5 years

GCSE Ancient History entries are up 72% in the last 5 years

We’re making progress! 👏🎉

[The Classical Association @Classical_Assoc]

The CA is extremely disappointed by the announcement of the end of funding for the Latin Excellence Programme. We urge any student, parent, or teacher affected to get in touch with us and we will try to help in any way we can to ensure that students can finish their course.

[Gem Adams @GAdamsClassics]

A fantastic trip to London for @Allerton_Grange Classics and Drama students! We saw the brilliant Hadestown last night! Today, GCSE and A Level Classicists went to the British Museum to view the sources they have been studying in lessons. London was lovely with Christmas lights!

[mary beard @wmarybeard]

I feel so sad about this scrapping of the Latin Excellence Programme, bringing Latin to state schools (I've been involved a little). I am trying hard to resist the idea that it's prejudice against the subject (combined with a dash of ignorance) https://t.co/SdLFsf4vI6

[@edithmayhall @edithmayhall]

Blog on a week in North-Eastern Classics--prison teaching, reception, pedagogy research, and bittersweet day with an invaluable friend and mentor https://t.co/2GkCwy4rOY @AgainstLore @PublicAristotle @AristotleStyle @Durham_Classics

[Gem Adams @GAdamsClassics]

The new book, Classics in Action has now been published. A brilliant book on Classics teaching by @jessbisc and @ProfArleneHH. I have written a case study on the creation of our KS3 #Classics curriculum. A career highlight for me! 📖

[Gem Adams @GAdamsClassics]

@The_Latin_Tutor It’s certainly not but classics is already so affected by the socio-economic divide and lacks representation, we do not want it widening by the closing of facilities that offer entry with lower grades.

[Gem Adams @GAdamsClassics]

Please sign this petition! The historic Lampeter Campus teachers #Classics and Ancient History.

Not only that, they are accessible. It means state school students who aren’t going to achieve A*, A or Bs still have a wonderful university to pursue Classics at.

Save #Lampeter!

[Save Ancient Studies Alliance @AncientSave]

❗️The University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) has announced a plan to END ALL UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING at its historical Lampeter campus by September 2025!

🗓#Petition closes on February 28, 2025

➡️Learn more and sign here: https://t.co/3Pkrd6zW4n

#EducationMatters

[RegineMay @RegineMay]

Teachers of Classics Key Stage 3 — please consider submitting student work to our Classics Competition on Myths and Legends!

[The Classics Library @StephenJenkin]

Classical Association: Write | Speak | Design Competition 2025

https://t.co/P1CzgKZwt7

[Gem Adams @GAdamsClassics]

@Classical_Assoc @classicsforall @ClassicsNorth @ProfArleneHH @edithmayhall @ClassCivAncHist @Hellenic_Soc @TheRomanSoc @profmcscott @RegineMay @StephenJenkin @StevenHuntClass @wmarybeard @WorkClassicists @Dr_MaiMusie @officialnhaynes Please retweet to save Lampeter! 🙏🏺