Ancient Greek to gcse

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Wobbles21 · 02/02/2020 10:15

Wondered if anyone had experience of starting Ancient Greek in year 9 and taking it to gcse. DS has this option : it would be a small group for 2 hours a week at school and would mean his gcse choices were language heavy: french, German, Latin and Greek.
Wonder if this is really doable?
TIA

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itssquidstella · 02/02/2020 15:31

The pupils taking it tend to be very able, and lessons move at a fast pace. That's how!

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Wobbles21 · 02/02/2020 15:29

So how do they manage it in only 2/3 years when other gcse subjects they study for 5 plus years. I can see generally the results are very good but I assumed it was native Greek speakers boosting the results.
It would be an 11th gcse and his 4th language so not sure if that is too much

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itssquidstella · 02/02/2020 11:46

Totally doable (Classics teacher here!). At my school, pupils who've shown an ability and interest in Latin start Greek in Y9 - they do around 45 minutes a week of Greek in Y9, then if they choose it for GCSE they get the full allocation of 300 minutes a fortnight in KS4.

It's a fast-paced course but they enjoy it and get excellent results.

ProggyMat · 02/02/2020 10:46

*I should add that a Yr8 was 30 minutes taster sessions.
2 hours per week from Yr9.

ProggyMat · 02/02/2020 10:24

My DD (Yr11) is sitting Latin Ancient Greek and French GCSEs in may.
She started French and Latin in Yr7 and then picked up Spanish and Ancient Greek (extra curricular) in Yr8.
She did toy with taking all 4 to GCSE but thought that was ‘language overload’ and dropped Spanish.
One of her peers chose all 4 but has dropped one after the mocks.
I’d say it was doable but it will depend on how many GCSEs he plans to sit.

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