Claire Rostron
@clairerostron.bsky.social
Classics teacher; writer
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Take the fictional characters test and post the first 4 you know:
Deanna Troi 89%
Georgiana Darcy 88%
Guinan 87%
Annie Reed 87%
openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...
Deanna Troi 89%
Georgiana Darcy 88%
Guinan 87%
Annie Reed 87%
openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...
May 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Take the fictional characters test and post the first 4 you know:
Deanna Troi 89%
Georgiana Darcy 88%
Guinan 87%
Annie Reed 87%
openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...
Deanna Troi 89%
Georgiana Darcy 88%
Guinan 87%
Annie Reed 87%
openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...
What a lovely note - although it does make me wonder what on earth I’ve been telling them 🤣
May 2, 2025 at 7:36 AM
What a lovely note - although it does make me wonder what on earth I’ve been telling them 🤣
What a super gift from Year 11 Latin to whom I’ve been teaching the City of Rome GCSE topic - a home-made cookie on which they had iced a remarkably accurate depiction of the Circus Maximus!
May 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
What a super gift from Year 11 Latin to whom I’ve been teaching the City of Rome GCSE topic - a home-made cookie on which they had iced a remarkably accurate depiction of the Circus Maximus!
Best thread EVER. 🦇
Happy Bat Appreciation Day! The German word for a bat, Fledermaus, means “flutter mouse.” The Basque word, saguzar, means “old mouse.” And the Estonian word, nahkhiir, means “leather mouse.” But to me (and to anyone who’s seen the picture below) the correct term for bats will always be “sky puppies”
April 18, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Best thread EVER. 🦇
Accidentally started watching Henry V over breakfast and now can’t tear ourselves away. Rockpools beckon but god the acting in this film is superb.
April 12, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Accidentally started watching Henry V over breakfast and now can’t tear ourselves away. Rockpools beckon but god the acting in this film is superb.
On holiday and really enjoying cliff-top walks listening to @alexpodyssey.bsky.social And knowing my brain as I do, I will now forever associate the myth of Echo and Narcissus with the coastal path at Woolacombe.
April 10, 2025 at 7:54 AM
On holiday and really enjoying cliff-top walks listening to @alexpodyssey.bsky.social And knowing my brain as I do, I will now forever associate the myth of Echo and Narcissus with the coastal path at Woolacombe.
Just wrote 800 words fuelled by the gorgeous coffee and croissants of Café Meraki in Woolacombe. 10/10 would come again!
April 9, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Just wrote 800 words fuelled by the gorgeous coffee and croissants of Café Meraki in Woolacombe. 10/10 would come again!
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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
Erm “okey dokey, artichokey”?!
Happy International Beaver Day, to all who celebrate! In Polish there’s a nonsense rhyming phrase (similar to the English “okey dokey, artichokey”) that goes dobrze panie bobrze. It means “Ok, Mr Beaver”
April 8, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Erm “okey dokey, artichokey”?!
Year 10 made scratch-art Linear B tablets!
March 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Year 10 made scratch-art Linear B tablets!
Happy Birthday @metalclassicist.bsky.social !
March 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Happy Birthday @metalclassicist.bsky.social !
Very mixed feelings about this production.
March 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Very mixed feelings about this production.
Putting on a green wig and running down the corridor making a gurgling noise and waving my arms about so that some students could make a film about a computer virus was not on my To Do list today. And yet.
March 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Putting on a green wig and running down the corridor making a gurgling noise and waving my arms about so that some students could make a film about a computer virus was not on my To Do list today. And yet.
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✨For All Women Of Classics✨
✨International Women’s Day✨
✨International Women’s Day✨
March 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
✨For All Women Of Classics✨
✨International Women’s Day✨
✨International Women’s Day✨
Thanks to all the wonderful speakers (Prof Patrick Finglass, Dr Rosie Wyles, Prof Sharon Marshall and Prof Thomas Harrison) and attendees at our online Classics Study Day yesterday. It was a fascinating and inspiring day much enjoyed and appreciated by all.
March 1, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Thanks to all the wonderful speakers (Prof Patrick Finglass, Dr Rosie Wyles, Prof Sharon Marshall and Prof Thomas Harrison) and attendees at our online Classics Study Day yesterday. It was a fascinating and inspiring day much enjoyed and appreciated by all.
Managed to get to the Silk Roads exhibition at the BM this afternoon. It was packed out and many of the labels are at almost ground level meaning a lot of elderly ladies bent double trying to read them. Never mind the woman knitting a sock on four needles as she went round…
February 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Managed to get to the Silk Roads exhibition at the BM this afternoon. It was packed out and many of the labels are at almost ground level meaning a lot of elderly ladies bent double trying to read them. Never mind the woman knitting a sock on four needles as she went round…
I always find those Greek vases with Not Enough Horse very funny, like the Sophilos dinos, or this one I saw for the first time in the British Museum last week, showing Chiron. Surely that chiton would have got in the way?!
February 13, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I always find those Greek vases with Not Enough Horse very funny, like the Sophilos dinos, or this one I saw for the first time in the British Museum last week, showing Chiron. Surely that chiton would have got in the way?!
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Whose voice is it that makes you doubt yourself and your abilities—yours or someone else’s?These voices reflect fear, not truth. Instead of questioning your abilities, focus on your strengths instead and the positive impact you’ve made.
Trust the evidence of your achievements.
#edusky #womenined
Trust the evidence of your achievements.
#edusky #womenined
February 13, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Whose voice is it that makes you doubt yourself and your abilities—yours or someone else’s?These voices reflect fear, not truth. Instead of questioning your abilities, focus on your strengths instead and the positive impact you’ve made.
Trust the evidence of your achievements.
#edusky #womenined
Trust the evidence of your achievements.
#edusky #womenined
So delighted to see that this shelf label at the British Museum has been corrected after SO many years of saying that he’s playing a kithara!
February 8, 2025 at 10:28 AM
So delighted to see that this shelf label at the British Museum has been corrected after SO many years of saying that he’s playing a kithara!
Really enjoyed listening to Simon Goldhill and Robert Icke in conversation last night. All the more gutted that I missed seeing that Oedipus production, but gleaned many interesting insights and talking points to raise with my A Level ClassCiv students.
January 9, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Really enjoyed listening to Simon Goldhill and Robert Icke in conversation last night. All the more gutted that I missed seeing that Oedipus production, but gleaned many interesting insights and talking points to raise with my A Level ClassCiv students.
Inset day done. Usual combination of panic, feelings of inadequacy, and desire to flee the scene and never return.
January 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Inset day done. Usual combination of panic, feelings of inadequacy, and desire to flee the scene and never return.