Taylor Swift music, Disney songs and Minecraft could be used to make Latin more accessible to pupils, says Steven Hunt.Taylor Swift music, Disney songs and Minecraft could be used to make Latin more accessible to pupils, says Steven Hunt.Last modified on Thu 7 Apr 2022 10.11 BST
In recent decades, schoolchildren – mainly in private schools – have mastered the early stages of Latin through the tales of Lucius Caecilius, a Pompeii banker who lived in the first century AD, and his family, as described in the popular Cambridge Latin Course, soon to be published in its fifth edition.
Currently fewer than 10,000 students sit GCSE Latin and they are overwhelmingly in private schools. According to a recent British Council survey, Latin is only taught at key stage 3 – the first three years of secondary level education – in 2.7% of state schools compared with 49% of independent schools.
carmilla cabello ? oh la la la
Wouldn’t learning French be a better use of their time?