Friday 16 September 2022

GCSE Latin students receive top grades

Keswick School Latinists have celebrated  another set of outstanding GCSE Latin reuslts this year with 40% of the students achieving a grade 9 and every student achieving a grade 9-7.  This equates to every student in the class acheiving an A*/A grade in the old system.

Latin is taught as an extended school curriculum course by Mrs Jackson. Students undertake the Cambridge University Latin Course which covers both language comprehension and Roman civilisation. In the first and second years of the course they aim to achieve Cambridge University certificates and in the third year they are prepared for higher tier GCSE Latin.

All the students who sat their GCSE Latin exams this year were in Years 9 and 10. This makes their achievements even more remarkable as they would have been sitting the same exam papers as students either one of two years old mainly from independent schools.

Latin enables pupils to develop their linguistic capabilities whilst also acquiring an ability to think logically and to deal with challenging linguistic puzzles. Pupils are encouraged to strive for accuracy and clarity of thought and to enjoy the intellectual demands of Latin.