Award for LGS Classics Teacher
Dr Mireya Gonzalez Rodriguez, a Classics Teacher at Loughborough Grammar School, has recently been presented with the ‘Making Classics More Inclusive Award’ at the 2023 Classical Association Teachers Awards in recognition of her Classics Lectures and outreach programme.
The Classical Association is an educational charity, dedicated to making classical subjects widely accessible. The CA 2023 Awards, in partnership with Bloomsbury Academic, recognise outstanding teaching and innovative pre-university education initiatives.
Mireya initiated an outstanding programme of Classics lectures at the Foundation delivered by world-leading scholars such as Emily Hauser, Edith Hall and Llewellyn Morgan. The lectures are open to everyone, without charge and were started by Mireya during the first lockdown. The lectures have proved incredibly successful, with hundreds of staff, students and members of the public regularly attending them.
Mireya has also created an outreach programme in Cyprus where students from LSF teach classical subjects to primary-aged children of those in the British Forces to introduce them to the classical world and inspire their curiosity of Classics.
Congratulations Dr Gonzalez Rodriguez!
"My aim was to make classics more inclusive through enrichment and outreach and I’m so pleased to have been able to achieve this. I am grateful for the recognition - it was very unexpected!"