Latin (unlikely)

Course summary

Exam board – OCR, Specification H443 Minimum Requirements for the Course: Grade 6 in Latin. Staff Contact: Dr Robinson, lro@cheneyschool.org Mr Barras, pba@cheneyschool.org It is highly unlikely that we will start the Latin course in 2026 due to numbers. If you apply for Latin please also email sixthform@cheneyschool.org What is Latin all about? Latin A Level provides the opportunity to deepen your understanding of both the Latin language and the wider cultural context of Rome from 80 BC to 120 AD. The set authors vary from year to year: recently these have been Catullus, Virgil, Ovid, Horace and Cicero. These authors wrote works which have had a deep and lasting influence upon many later societies, and the Latin A Level course offers the opportunity to study them in depth, exploring the beauty of their language and the context within which their greatest works were written. The course provides an excellent grounding in classics. The examinations on the literature include passages for comment and criticism, translation into idiomatic English, and an essay on one of the major themes illustrated in the text. Course Structure: You study two verse texts and one or two prose texts across two years, as well as working on language skills through comprehensions and unseens. Paper 1: Unseen translation 1 hour 45 mins (33%) Paper 2: Prose composition or comprehension 1 Hour 15 mins (17%) Prose literature 2 hours (25%) Verse literature 2 hours (25%) Complementary Courses: History, Archaeology. Modern Languages, English. Leads to: Any humanities degree.