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PRESS RELEASE For
immediate release 29th
April 2007 Paris,
Berlin, Malvern! Malvern
St James Hosts New Pan-European
Classics Competition A
new Pan-European Latin Competition will be held at Malvern St James on Saturday
5th May. 6th Form Classicists
throughout Europe
will compete in this new competition to be held simultaneously in France,
Germany and the UK - the European Cicero Competition. Malvern
St James is the host school for the UK. Each
participating country has a host centre where competing schools will meet and
dial into the classrooms of their fellow-students in Europe. During
the Competition, a 'virtual classroom' will be set up in Paris and linked via
video-conferencing with the two centres in Germany and England so that the
students will be in touch with each other as they translate a passage from Latin
and research their common heritage through the myth of Europa. Schools
will be competing for several prizes: national prizes for the translation
competition and both national and European prizes for the Europa section. Mrs
Anne Dicks, Head of Classics at Malvern St James, commented: “This is a really
exciting competition – the first of its kind! By using the latest in
video-conferencing technology we are able to illustrate how a ‘dead’
language is still relevant in today’s world. Sixth Form Students from across
the United Kingdom are all meeting at Malvern St James on Saturday 5th
May, when we will link to students in Paris and Berlin and celebrate the joys
and challenges of studying our shared Classical roots.” The
competition has been sponsored by West Midlands based commercial companies as
well as national educational and language associations.
veniamus videamus
vincamus! Finis Editors’
Notes The
competition has been organized by: Mrs Anne Dicks (Head of Classics at Malvern
St James and author of the website “Pyrrha’s Roman Pages”); Mr Patrick
Voisin (Professor of Classics at Lycée Louis Barthou, Pau, France, and author http://kubaba.univ-paris1.fr/2007/reconstruire_carth/index.htm)
and Mr Markus Gehlen (Teacher of Classics at Canisius-Kolleg, Berlin, Germany).
Dicks, Voisin and Gehlen met at a conference organised by CIRCE during the
summer of 2006 at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. CIRCE
is an EU-sponsored project which enables Classics teachers from different
countries in Europe to learn new ICT skills and to share ideas. The
UK Centre for CICERO (Certamen In Concordiam Europae Regionum Omnium) is Malvern
St James. For further information http://www.ciceroeuropa.eu/. Malvern
St James, formed by the merger of Malvern Girls College and St James’s School,
welcomes boarders and day girls aged 7-18. Press
Enquiries: Suzie Branch: 07985 594290; suzie@hmgmarketing.co.uk |
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