Cambridge Online Latin Project (COLP)
COLP was established by CSCP in September 1999 as a one-year trial with two secondary schools, neither with a Latin teacher, which wanted to offer Latin to their students. During the one-year trial, PGCE student teachers provided support in learning Latin to students in the two schools via email correspondence.
The one-year trial was a success and in September 2000 COLP engaged in a joint venture with Cambridge University Press and Granada Learning, supported by substantial funding from the Department for Education and Skills (DfES).
From September 2000, the aim of COLP became to:
- produce and test a wide range of digital resources to accompany Books I and II of the Cambridge Latin Course
- set up and support Latin in secondary schools with no Classics teacher
Between January and June 2001 CSCP ran a trial of the Book I digital resources in 20 secondary schools, the majority of whom had no classics teacher. For an interim report on the initial findings of this trial click here for the Word version and here for the pdf. At the end of the initial one-year project the DfES funded a revision of the Book I digital materials.
To find out about the revised digital materials, now known as the CLC E-Learning Resource on DVD, go to the CLC E-Learning page.
To see what support CSCP can offer to independent learners and schools with no classics teacher, visit the Starting Latin area of the web site.
