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Latin
What will your child study?
In the Middle School pupils complete the Cambridge Latin Course, before embarking upon the OCR GCSE Latin specification.
Latin is an option for Year 9 and it will usually be expected that students have studied Latin in Years 7 and 8 to enter the Year 9 course.
In Year 9 we learn how to use more complex constructions in Latin, practising our translation by using Cambridge Latin Course Books III and IV, set among the army in Roman Britain and then in the city of Rome itself.
The GCSE course begins in Year 10 and it will be expected that the Year 9 course has been completed.
In Year 10 we complete the stories of the Cambridge Latin Course and begin our study of some original Latin prose literature taken from authors such as Cicero, Livy, Tacitus and Caesar.
In Year 11, further literature is studied, this time in verse form. Authors can include Virgil, Ovid, Horace and Catullus. Alongside this, translation and analysis of Latin passages at GCSE standard forms an important element in the preparation for GCSE.
How will they be assessed?
Pupils will be assessed through marked homework, vocabulary tests and regular attainment tests. These attainment tests retain written translation, but increasingly will include elements of literary criticism as part of the assessment. In Year 11, pupils will sit a full GCSE mock examination.
