The department runs an extensive co-curricular programme.  Every year we organise a very popular Fifth Form (Year 9) trip to Greece, to study some of the great archaeological sites of the European classical heritage, such as the Athenian acropolis, the oracle at Delphi, and the sanctuary and stadium at Olympia.  We also run a Remove university preparation trip to the School’s house in Nenthead (close to Hadrian’s Wall), and often a Sixth Form (Year 12) trip, for example to Sicily or northern Greece.   

We have a thriving Classics Society, focused on lunchtime presentations by pupils of all years but also hosting external speakers. Other recent activities have included: attendance at a moot trial of the ancient British queen Boudicca, presided over by a Law Lord at the High Court; visits to the British Museum; trips to West End theatres, Oxford, and to King’s College, London, to watch plays performed in ancient Greek; Lower School Expeditions to walk and study Hadrian’s Wall; Upper School excursions to hear lectures by Oxford and Cambridge academics; the production of a Classics magazine, Editio, entirely by pupils; the running of a Latin club at a local primary school, by Sixth Form volunteers; performances of Latin and Greek plays by A Level pupils, in their own translations; and the hosting here of the London Classical Reading Competition, supported by the Classical Association. 

Every year a considerable number of pupils go on to study Classics (or Classics joint with English, Modern Languages or Oriental Studies, or Ancient and Modern History) at the most prestigious universities, supported by our outstandingly successful university preparation programme.

Their degrees are highly respected in the labour market.  Classics graduates apply transferable skills of analysis, communication and creativity with great success in a diverse range of careers, in law, the financial services, the civil and diplomatic services, IT and gaming development, management consultancy, international industry, politics, thinktanks, NGOs, journalism and broadcasting, the creative industry, and so on.