‘We learn a huge amount, especially about monsters and cake.’ Ezra Stuart, Year 7 Lectures, Open Days, Culture Early in the academic year, a group of ambitious Year 12 boys went to Cambridge with Dr Hulls for an Oxbridge Classics Study Day. The boys were treated to lectures by some of the sharpest minds in the field, lecturing on such diverse subjects as love in Virgil’s Aeneid, the development of Latin, why Greek statues smile and what oracles are for. Dr Hulls was embarrassed by a number of former colleagues and pupils. ‘Your teachers can tell you how good a university subject Classics is, but seeing the university and hearing lecturers really made me want to study it.’ Toby Redington, Year 12
tyrannical emperor Domitian and from which all reference to the tyrant had been excised after his brutal assassination. Stalin was certainly not the first man to wipe his opponents from history!
Meeting the Emperor Pertinax at Lullingstone.
Societies Classical Greek There is a huge range of activities going on, which fall loosely under the heading of ‘societies’. A number of Year 9 boys learn Classical Greek off- timetable under the aegis of Dr Hulls. Several boys have learned the language outside timetabled lessons in Year 10, while Mr Wakely tutors boys in Years 12 and 13. Some of these boys will go on to take the GCSE in Classical Greek and this subject forms part of the Liberal Studies programme. Lower School Classics Club A Lower School Classics Society runs regularly throughout the academic year. The boys enjoy a variety of fun, educational games and activities which take pupils beyond the syllabus as well as an opportunity to develop skills and knowledge outside the classroom. It is a great opportunity for boys to discuss those areas of the Classical world which never get quite enough space in lessons, both with their teacher and with older boys. We have established the top ten monsters of the ancient world, which classics teachers we would most like to kick down a well and Mr Wakely has indulged the boys with his classically themed board games.
Taking in the classical sights in Turkey.
Beyond Dulwich We work hard to maintain links with former pupils. Every year, staff and OAs convene to reminisce, catch up on gossip and major life events and listen to a selection of Dr Croally’s finely-tuned anecdotes. As Dr Croally, OA says: The most exciting thing about Classics is its interdisciplinarity. One consequence of this is that one develops an extremely wide range of reference. A further consequence is that one is able to communicate with people from across the academy, some of whom are former pupils.
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