Contents tagged with Classical Civilisation
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Year 12s hear Mary Beard in Conversation with Neil MacGregor
On Wednesday evening, thirteen Year 12 students gathered outside the Sheldonian Theatre ready to hear renowned Classics Professor Mary Beard in conversation with Dr Neil MacGregor on the topic of " … more
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Year Eight Dionysia Festival
On Thursday 25th May, Year Eight Beginners Latin students made their way to Corpus Christi College auditorium to take part in a Dionysia Festival! Each year, ancient Athenians held the City … more
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Students stage Medea Performance
We are very fortunate that this term, Marchella Ward, doctorate student in Greek Tragedy at the University of Oxford, has been working with our Year 12 and 13 Classical Civilisation students on a … more
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Classics Trip to see Antigone at the Shaw Theatre, London
On Friday 3rd February, we took Classical Civilisation students from Years 9, 12 and 13 to see Sophocles' Antigone, performed by the UCL Classical Drama Society at the Shaw Theatre in Central London.& … more
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Greek Tragedy Workshop
On Tuesday 10th January, we were delighted to welcome Harry Tanner and Maria Overy to the classics centre. Harry and Maria are working on a film of the well-known Greek Tragedy Medea, which will be … more
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Murder Mystery in the Ancient City of Pompeii
Our first ever Year Nine Classical Civilisation group are drawing to the end of their learning about Pompeii. It's been an exciting term in lots of ways, and so it felt fitting that our final … more
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Bringing Pompeii to life: teaching GCSE Classical Civilisation at Cheney
For the first time in Cheney School history, we have offered GCSE Classical Civilisation to Year Nines this year, as an after school lesson. To our delight, almost 40 students started the course … more
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Our first Classics Summer School
From 26th to 28th August we we were delighted to run our very first classics summer school at the East Oxford Community Classics Centre! The school offered Beginners Latin and Ancient Greek … more
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Ancient Astronomy Day
On 20th January, the East Oxford Community Classics Centre ran an Ancient Astronomy Day! The event involved a range of workshops, talks, activities and stalls for both Cheney students and the wider … more
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Classics Summer School
We are delighted to announce that we will be holding the East Oxford Community Classics Centre's first Summer School from the 26th to the 28th August 2015.
The school will cater for ages 8 to 14, … more
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