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Greek
What will your child study?
In the Middle School pupils follow Taylor’s Greek to GCSE course, before embarking upon the OCR GCSE Classical Greek specification.
Greek is an option in Year 9 and we offer differentiated work to accommodate both beginners and those who join the school in Year 9 with some prior experience of the language. Pupils in Year 8 will experience some taster sessions in Greek as part of their timetabled Latin lessons.
The Year 9 course aims to offer a fast-paced introduction to the language, whilst also offering opportunities to explore the wider culture of Greece through stories and independent research. Pupils study using Greek to GCSE Part 1 and the start of Greek to GCSE Part 2.
The GCSE course continues in Year 10 and it will be expected that the Year 9 course has been completed.
In Year 10 we complete the remainder of Greek to GCSE Part 2 and begin our study of some original Greek prose literature taken from authors such as Herodotus, Plato and Demosthenes.
In Year 11, further literature is studied, this time in verse form. Authors can include Homer and the great Greek tragedians. Alongside this, translation and analysis of Greek passages at GCSE standard becomes an increasingly important element in the preparation for GCSE.
How will they be assessed?
Pupils will be assessed through marked homework, vocabulary tests and regular unseen translation exercises. In the build-up to GCSE, testing will increasingly include elements of literary criticism as part of the assessment. In Year 11, pupils will sit a full GCSE mock examination.
