Latin and Greek in English Primary Schools – seedlings of a classical education

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