Ovid for All competition

We run our Ovid for All competition every year for state-schools in the North of England. It was developed from an initiative set up by the Cambridge Schools Classics Project (CSCP). CSCP still run their own Ovid competition online which is open to all UK schools, including independent schools; if you teach in an independent school, you can enter their competition here.

Our Ovid for All competition, endorsed by CSCP,  aims to get teachers and students in the state sector involved in reading and responding to Classical mythology.

 Teachers of any subject can deliver this competition, but it particularly suits English, Art and Classics.

Based on oral retellings of classical mythologies found in Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses, hosted on the CSCP's Tales of Change webpage, this annual competition gets students excited about storytelling and gives them access to the ancient world and these wonderful stories which have survived for millennia.