DartfordGS Classics

A very enjoyable Language Excellence Programmes graduation ceremony this morning for Year 11, in which our students received their ICCG certificates alongside similar presentations for Mandarin and Japanese. @DartfordGS @Intermed_Greek

We've just finished an excellent Creativity Week introducing the Year 7 forms to the classical world through five sessions: the Roman world, the Latin language, Pompeii and archaeology, Greek myth, and the Roman army. Now time to lay down our shields for half term! @DartfordGS

Today's presentation in KS4 Classics Club is on Roman cursive. Romanorum chirographum imitemur! @DartfordGS

Today we took a school group to the National to see their gripping new production of Euripides' Bacchae (also the debut of their new artistic director, Indhu Rubasingham), followed by a visit to their current exhibition: 'The Greeks: Radical Reinvention'. @DartfordGS

An enjoyable session of KS4 Classics Club, opened by one of our Year 11s with the eternal question: which social media would each Olympian god have used, and what would they have been posting? 🤔 @DartfordGS

Many thanks to our keen Latinists for making yesterday's Open Evening so enjoyable in the Classics Department! Hopefully it was as much fun for the prospective parents and students as it was for us. @DartfordGS

Many thanks all the Year 12s who were such a great advertisement for @DartfordGS today, both in Latin and across the board!

Rome 2025 - Day 1: Carb fuelled and tackling the Roman heat, we made it to the Pantheon, which never fails to amaze, as well as the Spanish Steps and the Trevi Fountain...they'll certainly sleep well tonight! Bring on the Colosseum tomorrow! @DartfordGS

Rome 2025: We're here! We have all arrived safely in a very sunny Rome, we've swiftly filled up on pizza and pasta and are now ready to start our own 'Grand Tour'...first stop: Pantheon! @DartfordGS

Athens Trip - Day 5: Our final day in Greece 😭 We took some well-deserved rest time to explore the shops of Plaka, and enjoy lunch in the National Gardens, before heading home, and arriving to a gorgeous sunset view!🌅 @DartfordGS

Athens Trip - Day 4: We had quite the adventure at Delphi, exploring the home of the Oracle, and Zeus even sent down a special thunderstorm just for us! Then we had a last night to remember, eating and dancing away the evening in a traditional Greek taverna 🇬🇷 @DartfordGS

Athens Trip - Day 3: Today we saw the treasures of the National Archaeological Museum, and, as if we hadn't done enough exercise yet, held our very own races at the Panaethenaic Stadium! We spent the evening at the stunning Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion @DartfordGS

Athens Trip - Day 2: From far away to up close and personal, we made our way to the Acropolis of Athens to see the Parthenon, Erectheion, and more! We also visited the Agoras, both Athenian and Roman, and topped the day off with some delicious ice cream! @DartfordGS

Athens Trip - Day 1: Our first day was a great success, we're all safely in Athens, and enjoyed a small (read: long and steep) walk up to the Lycabettus viewing point to see the Acropolis from afar...seeing it up close is our mission today! @DartfordGS

A very enjoyable trip into London yesterday to see Sophocles' Elektra with terrific performances from Brie Larson in the title role and Stockard Channing as Clytemnestra. 🇬🇷 @DartfordGS

We're so grateful to Dr Jerry Toner from Churchill College, Cambridge, for offering his time today to speak to our students and wider school community on 'Finding Ordinary Romans'. The student session and lecture were terrific and really enthused our students. @DartfordGS

Io Saturnalia from KS4 Classics Club (minus the Year 11s who are soldiering on with their GCSE mocks)! @DartfordGS

We are delighted to announce that DGS has been named Sunday Times State School of the Year for the South East. A very proud moment for us, and this serves as a reminder of the excellence of both our staff and student bodies who continue work together to strive for success.

You don’t often get to see a group of marching Roman soldiers intersecting a game of fußball on the junior playground…it’s been great seeing Y7 throw themselves into their Latin and German language tasters this week 🇩🇪🏛️🏺@DartfordGS @DGSClassics @DGS_MFL #CreativityWeek2024

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A very enjoyable awards ceremony for Year 11 students celebrating the completion of their Language Excellence Programmes. Our Chair of Governors Mr Tibbott presented the Hellenists with their ICCG certificates and spoke passionately about the value of Ancient Greek in schools.