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Year 7

Reading Latin and getting to know its grammar (the first few declensions of nouns and adjectives, the present, imperfect and perfect tenses, imperatives, personal pronouns and the infinitive). Our textbook is the Cambridge Latin Course, which phases in new grammar through reading and translation exercises and describes life in Pompeii and Roman Britain.

Year 8

Third declension adjectives; the relative clause; the pluperfect tense; the fourth declension; comparatives; superlatives; the present and past participles; some subjunctive clauses; life in Roman Britain and Alexandria.

Year 9

Time and place; uses of the ablative case; more subjunctive clauses; the future tense; passive and deponent verb forms; the ablative absolute; the gerundive; the Chester legionary fortress; life in Rome; major Roman buildings; Roman social structure; patronage; public entertainments.

Year 10

End of the Cambridge Latin Course; formal language work; a prose set text: passages from Cicero’s Pro Cluentio and Tacitus’ Annals.

Year 11

More formal language work; verse set text (from Virgil's Aeneid); the Roman army.

Year 12

A prose text (Cicero's In Catilinam); a verse text (book VIII of Ovid's Metamorphoses); commentaries; short essays; unseen translation from Latin; English sentences for translation into Latin.

Year 13

Two set texts (selected poems by Catullus; book XIV of Tacitus' Annals); unseen translation into and out of Latin.