Ofqual accredits the OCR new Latin GCSE
JK Rowling and Martha Lane Fox did a degree with it; celebrities from Angelina Jolie to Justin Bieber have it tattooed on their bodies; and more students are studying it at school, so although it’s more than 2000 years old, Latin remains officially hip.
Ofqual has accredited the OCR new Latin GCSE for teaching from September 2016. It is one of the first subjects to be accredited in this, the second of three waves of government reform to GCSEs and A Levels.
Since 2010, the number of students taking GCSE Latin in schools in England and Wales has risen by 13% and, as a language, it benefits from being one of the core EBacc subjects. For the first time the new GCSE contains the translation of simple sentences into Latin (e.g. ‘the slave is able to work in the garden’). The popular derivation questions have been retained where students have to find English words that derive from Latin (e.g. volunteer deriving from the verb velle).
Click here for more about OCR’s new GCSE and A Latin specifications.