Classics

The Classics department aims to give every girl in the school the opportunity to learn and analyse the Latin language to some degree. We hope to encourage girls to understand the cultural and linguistic influence of the Roman and Greek worlds and give them a sense of the help this knowledge can provide for other academic disciplines.

Girls throughout the school are given opportunities to see places of classical interest and recent visits have been to Fishbourne and Bath. We also take the opportunity to organise theatre trips, sometimes with the Drama department, to see productions of classical plays either in the original language or in translation. Every two years the Classics department organises a trip to either Italy or Greece. Ancient Greek is offered as an after-school club with the possibility of pursuing the language to GCSE level.

Girls have achieved excellent results at GCSE and A Level in both Latin and Classical Civilisation, and many have gone on to study at university either Classics, Classical Civilisation or Ancient History.