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On 9th June we took some Year 10 and 12 pupils to the British Museum to see some of the fascinating artefacts on show.

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Congratulations to Sanvi for winning the LIV Declamations with her powerful performance of Pliny's account of Vesuvius' eruption!

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Congratulations to all our winners in the LIV Latin Declamations this year. Well done to Sanvi in particular for her performance of Pliny's description of the eruption of Vesuvius was moving and highly dramatic! She will go into the final against the winners from English and MFL.

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UV making board games to celebrate completing the set text of the Odyssey!

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The power of colour-coding when doing English into Greek!

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As part of the school's Cross Curricular Challenge, we were all encouraged to think about how our subjects related to the theme of 'Gold'. Here's what our pupils came up with for Classics!

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@ELCSS2 Us too!

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An unintentional dry January of no posts ends with the joys of the Indirect Statements! We hear that they are quite hard to translate:

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Temple dating back to the 7th Century BC unearthed on the Greek island of Evia. https://t.co/WTkSB3av5T

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Terrific review of the latest exhibition @britishmuseum on 'Life in the Roman Army'. https://t.co/pXPNR5zPsk

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Mapping of genomes leads to a fascinating study of migration throughout the Roman Empire https://t.co/Sl8gqUyE0E

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... and things got just as competitive in the other Year 12 class!

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A keenly fought game of Latin Scrabble to mark the end of term!

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I can’t overstate how much I love this joke. (It’s not mine by the way, I just wanted to illustrate it).

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On this day in 63BC, Cicero delivered his final Catilinarian oration on the fate of the conspirators who had been captured. This is also therefore the same date on which Cato bested Caesar in the senatorial debate, and convinced the senators to approve the death penalty.

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On this day in 8BC, the Roman poet Horace died. A prolific writer, whose works included the Odes and the Satires, he is perhaps best known as the originator of the phrase 'carpe diem', as well as 'dulce et decorum est', which Wilfred Owen would so memorably twist.

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On this day in 111, Antinous was born. A lover and favourite of Emperor Hadrian, he died in mysterious circumstances on the Nile in 130, and the grieving emperor deified him.

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I park my car at the top of the hill but then it just rolls back down? Can anyone help?

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On this day in 9AD, Vespasian was born. Initially a successful general, he came to power after the Year of Four Emperors in 69AD and established the Flavian Dynasty. During his reign, construction of the Flavian Amphitheatre was begun. It is more commonly known as the Colosseum.

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@sophiemaynard @five_books Him and Polybius are probably the best shouts, but both imperfect sources!

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https://t.co/xlw7cQnl4S Denzel as Hannibal! Amazing!