salve Reader!

I recently shared a year-in-review carousel on Instagram, celebrating everything "2025–2006" has brought. This was not intended to be 2006 to 2025, but rather 2025 to 2026!

Another time, I should write about what I did from 2006 onward, which truly was another life, but my recent post was meant for just 12 months, even though some people were impressed that I had done so much in 19 years! (offending post at the bottom)

Typos aside, it has been an amazing year, and I think sharing my gratitude matters. Like many other students interested in Classics, I had a fair bit of pressure to use my top grades to study something more 'useful'.

But what does 'useful' even mean? They said studying Classics with my grades was a mistake, but I like to look at it from the Latin perspective. ERRARE HUMANUM EST is usually translated as 'to err is human'. Yet 'erro' also means 'wander'. You do not get very far if you do not wander a little here and there.

Anyway, here was my 'useful' for 2025-2026:

1. I helped students thrive in their Latin journey, and I opened doors they did not even know were there in the first place by making the language come alive.
2. I took my dive club to the submerged ruins of Roman Baiae (praefectus immersionis is now my official title), wandered through Écija, Málaga, Granada, Naples and Pompeii, to name a few. This is now going to be part of educational resources, both in Latin and English.
3. A Virgin Radio live appearance brought Latin to many unsuspecting listeners, and I am happy to say the whole craziness of it was a lesson in itself.
4. My commitment to professional development took me to BFF at North London Collegiate, the Jornadas Didácticas de ELE in Barcelona, the Jornadas de Cultura Clásica in Andalusia and the online wonderworld of LAC, where I got to practise my spoken Latin online regularly.
5. I directed a CPD ARLT Refresher Day for teachers by teachers at Westminster School, where the learning and collaboration were out of this world.
6. (OK, this is not strictly Classics, but) I ran my own bookstall and judged a poetry competition for the Escola Catalana de Londres.

I LOVE my job.

It has been, in short, a very full year of living exactly the kind of Classics life I want my students to know is possible.

And I plan to keep bringing Latin to students, which is why I am currently elbow-deep arranging the timetable and putting together new group programmes to complement my one-to-one services. You will be hearing more about that very soon.

in proximum! 🏛️🌿

Oh, and here is the offending post with a little visual summary of this school year:

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