Latin

Students learning Latin will quickly start to read the great classics of Latin literature from Catullus and Martial, Virgil, Pliny, Ovid and Cicero to Horace, Lucretius and Tacitus. Latin offers entry into an astonishing world, a lost world that paradoxically offers itself up vividly and excitingly through its literature. These great writers lie at the head of a western tradition in writing that enfolds Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Keats, Eliot and Heaney to name but a few. To be an effective reader of literature written in English, knowledge of the literature of the Romans offers an inestimable advantage.

Latin helps create curious, intellectually rigorous kids with a rich interior world, people who have the tools to see our world as it really is because they have encountered and imaginatively experienced another that is so like, and so very unlike, our own.

Latin is taught entirely through its grammatical rules not through its demotic use, as you learn it you gain an understanding of the mechanics and structure of language streets ahead of any you will gain from the study of a modern tongue. Any other language - not just Spanish, Italian or French, but German, Russian and even Arabic - becomes easier for a child with a grounding in Latin. A student can use Latin to grasp the bones and sinews of any language.

Latin courses can be structured to cater for any age group or ability and are available by arrangement, please call or email for details.