This isn't about teaching Latin or Classical Greek (modern Greek, yes), but if primary schools become increasingly aware of languages other than English it can't be a bad thing. Here's the beginning of the Guardian's report. Read the rest here.

Every primary school pupil in England could have the chance to learn at least one foreign language during the normal school day as part of a £115m package to be unveiled by the government today.

The extra funding - described by ministers as unprecedented for this subject area - will include £60m to train 6,000 new specialist language teachers to be recruited into primary schools and to give extra training to 18,000 existing teachers and 9,000 assistants. Its benefits should be felt within five years.

In most cases, French, Spanish and German will be taught, but the government also expects community languages such as Italian, Urdu, Bengali, Greek and Turkish to be offered. Extra money will be spent on encouraging schools to develop international links - "twinning" with schools abroad and building up exchange programmes to develop a more global outlook.