This article describes some of the main features of classical languages and history learning at the primary school level in England at the current time. It briefly examines the context and education policy background and government and teachers' beliefs in the value and status of classical subjects, especially the Latin language as an aid to learning other languages and as a support for developing and improving students' English literacy. There is some overlap with the literature review co-authored by Holmes-Henderson and Kelly for the British government (Holmes-Henderson and Kelly, 2022) and a recent piece by myself about provision of teaching and resources in the Bulletin of the Council of University Classics Departments (Hunt, 2022a). I hope to develop further some of these ideas and draw out some discussions about resources, pedagogy and learning aims for possible future directions of classical languages learning at the primary level.

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英语小学中的拉丁语和希腊语——古典教育的幼苗

本文介绍了当前英国小学古典语言和历史学习的一些主要特征。它简要考察了背景和教育政策背景以及政府和教师对古典学科的价值和地位的信念，特别是拉丁语作为学习其他语言的辅助手段以及作为发展和提高学生英语素养的支持。与 Holmes-Henderson 和 Kelly 为英国政府共同撰写的文献综述（Holmes-Henderson 和 Kelly，2022）以及我自己最近在大学理事会公报中关于提供教学和资源的文章有一些重叠古典系（亨特，2022A）。我希望进一步发展其中的一些想法，并就小学古典语言学习未来可能的方向进行一些关于资源、教学法和学习目标的讨论。