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AN OPEN LETTER TO EDUCATORS
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An open letter from the trustees of The CAGSE Foundation
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July 2008
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Dear Fellow Educator,
We would like to introduce CAGSE’s Latin programme to you and your pupils.
The National Curriculum says, in its section on Modern Languages:
“Through the study of a foreign language, pupils ... learn about the basic structures of language. ... Their listening, reading and memory skills improve, and their speaking and writing become more accurate. The development of these skills, together with pupils’ knowledge and understanding of the structure of language, lays the foundations for future study of other languages.”
The question is: how to achieve these aims? The answer is simple: learn Latin. Specifically, CAGSE’s Latin.
Five languages, directly derived from “modern Latin”, are official languages of the EU: French, Spanish, Italian,
Portuguese, and Romanian. Latin is also an inflected language, just like the majority of the Indo European languages
spoken in your school and in pupils’ homes.
Learn Latin through CAGSE, and you dramatically increase your capability of learning a Romance and non-Romance language.
Learn Latin, and you improve your grasp of English if English is your second tongue.
Why CAGSE and not another programme? Rather than start with a set text, we start with what the children know and work
from there. Our programme uses games, songs, stories and other age-appropriate strategies to make pupils hyper-aware of
their choice of words, and why they are saying what they are saying.
CAGSE’s teachers give pupils the tools to account for every part of speech in at least two languages. Everything taught
in Latin is taught in English first.
CAGSE’s Latin programme helps pupils, particularly at Key Stage 2, to master English and set the stage for the thorough
learning of Modern Languages as required by the UK government. For schools, this means that two major concerns are
addressed: the national literacy recommendations, and the modern language entitlement.
And your pupils will love it.
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Very sincerely yours,
The Trustees, CAGSE GB
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