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Newsletter 4 April 2012 | ||
| Message from Sarah Jackson OBE, Chair
We are grateful that many of you continue to support the teaching and learning of Classics in state schools with generous donations to help ensure that Classics reaches more children and young people now and in the future. We hope that you will continue to donate as generously as possible. Later this year, we are hoping to host events to keep in touch with our major donors, and Maxwell Singh, our Development Director, will be in touch with further details as soon as arrangements are in place. I trust you had a happy Easter, and I look forward to the start of our new projects and updating you with further details in due course. |
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| Applications for Grant Funding 2012 | ||||||
| We received 21 applications for funding this year from a variety of projects across the U.K., and will shortly be announcing the full list of 9 successful applicants for the first grants round of 2012; details will shortly be available on our website. Donors to Classics for All have provided all the funds to enable us to provisionally award nearly £70,000 so far this year. |
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| Last year, we awarded over £90,000 in total to 8 Classics projects across the U.K. We intend to keep you updated on the progress of the work, the impact your support has had, and the legacy it has created. Classics for All Trustee, Jeannie Cohen, and Lorna Bower, our Communications Director, recently visited North Walsham in rural Norfolk, where Latin classes in 7 primary schools and a secondary school are well under way. 80 pupils now study Latin every week, with younger pupils, aged 8 to 10, learning through the Minimus books, published by the Primary Latin Project. The primary school teachers use Latin as a way of expanding the children's English vocabulary. The pupils learn elementary Latin grammar and vocabulary, as well as myths and legends of the ancient world. At secondary level, the 14-year-old students are racing through the GCSE curriculum at an impressive pace, studying once a week for two hours at the end of a school day. All members of the class also take French, and some also study either German, Spanish or Italian. Every student felt Latin gave them a huge advantage when learning modern languages. |
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| Message from Peter Jones |  |
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Columnist for The Spectator and Co-Founder of Friends of Classics In the last ten years or so, 600 schools have started Latin. But since many of them take their pupils to GCSE in a year or two on a pretty thin diet of teaching time, the Cambridge Schools Classics Project, in concert with the Welsh Joint Education Committee, has developed a new examination at 16 + to cater for them.Result: a 30% increase in those studying Latin at 16+, from 8,500 to 11,050. Result, indeed. Hopefully, with your financial support, we can build on this momentum further – please donate generously to Classics for All. |
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| Message from Maxwell Singh | ||||||
Development Director, Classics for All  If you have already given to Classics for All, thank you once again. I hope that you will continue to support us, since your donations are vital if we are to give the Classics projects we fund a real chance of a creating a lasting legacy within state schools.Last year, the Binks Trust donated £50,000 to Classics for All for a second time, offering extremely valuable support to Classics for All, and enabling us to open up the classical world to a wider audience. Sir Gerald and Lady Elliot, both classicists by training, named the Binks Trust after the farm owned by Sir Gerald's forebears. We would like to thank Sir Gerald and Lady Elliot immensely for this generous repeated donation. The A.G. Leventis Foundation has also approved a grant of £5,000 per annum for 3 years, for projects related to ancient Greek language, civilization and history. Additionally, the Statham Family Charitable Trust, which works in the Midlands area, has donated £10,000 to Classics for All for the first time; the Trust is keen to offer support to children and young people studying non-National Curriculum subjects. We would like to thank all our donors, both individuals and trusts and foundations, for their kind support, and look forward to working with them in future. If you are aware of similar trusts and foundations that might be in a position to discuss and offer similar support, please do not hesitate to call me on 07740 482765 at any time, or email maxwell@classicsforall.org.uk
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Welcome to the latest edition of our bi-monthly newsletter, which will keep you updated throughout the year on the exciting progress we are making in unlocking the classical world for children and young people in state schools.
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