StevenHuntClassics

@daisychristo It’s a classics scholarship exam. For Classicists who have been trained to pass it. A very small number of people would do this.

We have a lot of historical records of exam papers like this. Frustratingly, we have far fewer records of what the students actually wrote in response! Maybe their responses were all brilliant. Maybe some of them were terrible. My colleagues wrote a paper on standards in A-level maths over time, and finding archive responses was really hard! Eventually they were able to compare responses from 1964, 1968, 1996 and 2012. Standards had declined dramatically between 1968 & 1996. The quality of work that would have got an E in 1968 got a B in 1996. substack.nomoremarking.com/p/are-exams-ge…

Another blog post. This one’s on AI and why teachers matter more. stevenhuntclassics.com/post/the-limit…

Find out more about all the Suburani characters at hands-up-education.org/introduction.h… Already familiar with the course? Tell us which character you want to learn about next in the comments!⬇️

State-school pupils in Y9-13 near Liverpool can learn Classical Greek at the Liverpool Greek Academy, full-funded by the generous donors to @classicsforall. Find out more at classicsforallnorth.org.uk/liverpool-gree…

Some thoughts on changing from one #Latin course to another and the impact on #teaching methods stevenhuntclassics.com/post/from-ecce…

@WillKingston Silly man

Reform, Restore and the Conservatives should all commit to immediately restoring hereditary peers if they win government.

The value of University Outreach stevenhuntclassics.com/post/opening-c…

Euroclassica supported the Academia Ragusina which took place in Dubrovnik, Croatia this month. @Classical_Assoc @Cnarela1 @seecmadrid @StevenHuntClass @classicsforall

📢New #CSCP blog post by our own @MairLloyd sharing enhancements made to story explorers (digital parsing tools) for the UK and International 5th edition Cambridge Latin Course. #CLC newblog.cambridgescp.com/exploring-expl…

DAV, 7-11 April 2026, Frankfurt, in the historical settings of the Goethe-Universität. Euroclassica participated: welcome speech and presentations by our president and our honorary president Hans-Joachim Glücklich. @Classical_Assoc @StevenHuntClass @ChristianL14405

Some observations about the classroom layout. stevenhuntclassics.com/post/the-shape…

Roman Society Grants for Books and Resources theclassicslibrary.com/roman-society-…

Just published: an article about maintaining and developing the ‘pipeline’ for Classics teachers in the UK - the problem and some suggestions. #Latin #Greek #Classics @classicsforall @Classical_Assoc @CamEdFac cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2026/04/…

Calling Scottish State Schools: The Sharing Access to Classics Scheme is open for 2026/7! If you'd like to give pupils access to Higher/AH Classical Studies or N5 Latin but don't have capacity, we offer an online collaboration here free of charge here! drive.google.com/file/d/1ZkfsN9…

@stoneman_claire I agree. But books only sell once and the royalty is a pittance. I much prefer to hold a book though.

There are so many great writers I want to read on Substack, but between £3.50-7 per month each I’d have to start a new budget line if I were to read all of them! I want to support writers, but all those subs are too costly. I’d buy their books. Are books a thing anymore 🤷🏼‍♀️

@SuellaBraverman Suella, it was your government (when you were Conservative) which invented the National Curriculum which all schools under local authority control must follow. It hasn’t been changed. They’re following *your* Conservative government’s rules - down to what history to know.

Too many schools, supported by their local councils, are teaching a politicised curriculum. We need to end political indoctrination in schools. Vote Reform to restore common sense and patriotism to the classroom.

One day, I'll receive an email about keynote speakers being announced for a big conference, and those speakers will be actual teachers. With timetabled classes. I'll receive an email about educational panel events where organisers have committed to having at least one person with a timetabled class on the panel. I'll receive an email about people being invited to some glitzy event in town or Number 10, and the people invited will be actual teachers. With timetabled classes. One day, but not today.

@StephenJenkin That’s me!

Classics for All: Free Online CPD for Secondary Schools theclassicslibrary.com/classics-for-a…

Children with disadvantage often don’t do as well as others because, overall, they have had fewer resources than those who are not disadvantaged. Schools are expected to provide additional resources to those children and indeed there is a PP payment to fund these extra resources. However, schools that serve such communities often have to spend considerable additional (to PP) resources over and above in the form of time, effort and emotional toil. And the end outcome will still be, overall, insufficient due to a myriad of factors - not least that it is impossible for schools to compete with parents who lavishly resource their children from birth to work and beyond to help them achieve. The way to help schools is to provide additional resources rather than pressure staff in them to spend more of their own personal time, effort and emotional toil over and above those whose schools serve more advantaged communities. If you do exert that pressure using gaslighting (‘you have low expectations’), many amazing and hard working staff will leave our wonderful profession or such schools and seek a fairer contractual relationship.