Classical Civilisation and Ancient History High Achievers

Xaverian Classical Civilisation and Ancient History students have been chosen for Oxford Summer School…

Abigail and Carmen, both Xaverian High Achieving students have been successfully selected for a place on the Wadham College Oxford summer school for five days.

This was a highly competitive process, Abbie and Carmen were chosen to go out of sixteen students across the UK. They will be studying at the Ashmolean Museum and will have the chance to stay in college and be briefed about attending top universities to study related subjects.

A further three Xaverian Classical Civilisation and Ancient History students,  Nahir, Jess and Georgia have been awarded scholarships at the annual Classics and Ancient History Summer School in Sheffield; where they will have a week studying Literature, History and Latin.

We also have student Lily, who has been awarded a place at the Annual Bryanston Ancient Greek Summer School.  She will be involved in a Greek play production as well as learning the language as a beginner.  Lily is aspiring to study Classics at university with a foundation year in Ancient Greek.

Other students are attending remote courses in Latin language and one on Classics in Italy with a beginners’ Italian course.

Xaverian has a proud record of high achieving students gaining places at top universities, studying subject varying from Ancient History, Classics and Classical Civilisation.  We are the biggest provider of Classical subjects within a state college in the whole of the North of England. For more information about the course visit https://www.xaverian.ac.uk/course/classical-civilisation/.

To find out more about studying Classical Civilisation and Ancient History at Xaverian.

For more information about open days and how to apply, click here.