Grammar school leaps to the top.(News)

The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  October 20, 2001 ;     179 words ...THE Sacred Heart Grammar School in Newry has been named as the top independent...Northern Ireland top 10 were: 3. Larne Grammar School, 4. Dalriada School, Ballymoney, 5. Our Lady's Grammar School, Newry, 6. St Patrick's Girls' Academy...

Last Tory county approves grammar school

The Independent - London;  May 20, 1995 ;     479 words ...A proposal to build the first grammar school in Britain for more than 30 years has...establishment of a 1,000-place super-grammar school for the top 2 or 3 per cent of the...for two comprehensives. The planned grammar school would be on a site near to the city...

My grammar school helped me to shine; LETTERS SPECIAL.(Letter to the...

The Daily Mail (London, England);  May 23, 2007 ;     700+ words ......school passed the 11-Plus and went to grammar school. We all lived on the same council estate...sharpest knife in the box, but the grammar school squeezed eight O-levels and four A...director of a FTSE 100 company. The grammar school system worked. It got the best out...

Unbreakable spirit of fine grammar school "A Neighbour showed me Bygones,...

Grimsby Telegraph;  May 19, 2007 ;     647 words ......mechanism and timings of Wintringham Grammar School reverting to a co-educational structure and the transition from grammar school to comprehensive school. "Somehow...school. "The school was still a grammar school then, until the first comprehensive...

What's to become of the Old Grammar School?; THE CITY'S LANDMARK BUILDING...

Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  February 3, 1999 ;     700+ words ......whether there is any danger that the Old Grammar School will eventually deteriorate so much...nutshell for the chairman of the Old Grammar School Trustees. Restoration work for this...cash and the desire to restore the Old Grammar School is likely to be a brewery. There appears...

Grammar schools give pupils great opportunity As chairman of governors at...

Herald Express (Torquay UK);  May 30, 2007 ;     121 words ......chairman of governors at Torquay Grammar School for Girls, I would like to add my pennyworth to the grammar school debate (HE, Saturday, May 26...limit for pupils. I see the three grammar school as an integral part of education...

Historic grammar school to live on

The Northern Echo;  March 11, 2000 ;     515 words ......two-to-one, proposals to turn Ripon Grammar School into a comprehensive were thrown out...supporters of the country's oldest grammar school denounced the move as sour grapes. "Parents have voted decisively to keep the grammar school. I would hope that would be the end...

Grammar school to take 'poor' students ; HOME

The Independent - London;  July 3, 2007 ;     181 words ...A grammar school is opening its sixth form to pupils...to university. The move by Bexley Grammar School in southeast London comes after claims...the country. Bexley is the second grammar school to embrace the policy of widening...

Back to its best! BBC RESTORATION: Old Grammar School returned to former...

Birmingham Mail (England);  January 16, 2008 ;     412 words ......completed. The work carried out at the Old Grammar School, in Kings Norton, was made possible...lots of hard work and TLC, The Old Grammar School, has opened and is ready to welcome...left, and Steve Jinks outside the Old Grammar School. Picture: Loretta Brennan Photosales...

Letter: Your Say - Old Grammar School setting.(Letters)

Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  January 26, 2007 ;     167 words ......picture you will see it is the Old Grammar School hall in Hales Street. Along the sides...cluster benches which are in the Old Grammar School and you will see that the hall is much smaller than St Mary's Hall. The Old Grammar School was the headquarters for the Church...

New head set is for top grammar school.(News)

The Journal (Newcastle, England);  June 6, 2007 ;     201 words ......take over as headmaster of Royal Grammar School (RGS) in Newcastle when current...currently works at Wolverhampton Grammar School. He said: After 17 years as head of Wolverhampton Grammar School I relish the challenge of putting...

Grammar school area parents put in the picture

Yorkshire Post;  July 4, 2005 ;     274 words ......North Yorkshire which continue with the grammar school system for parents whose children will...their children to attend Ermysted's Grammar School and Skipton Girls' High School are invited to the memorial hall at Ermysted's Grammar School, Skipton, tomorrow at 7pm. For those...

Lessons missed as pupils fled into air-raid shelters Wartime memories of...

Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph;  October 1, 2007 ;     481 words ...Wartime memories of life at Scunthorpe Grammar School have been recalled by former pupil...our Nostalgia column last week. The Grammar School was in Doncaster Road in the buildings...Brown School'. Mrs Fisher said the grammar school pupils were known as 'Green Cabbages...

Perfect grammar Moving to an area within reach of a good grammar school?...

The Sunday Telegraph London;  June 3, 2007 ;     700+ words ......daughter, Lizzie, could attend Colyton Grammar School. In contrast to the Conservative Party...level results, is the most successful grammar school in the country. "It is a fantastic...be even more difficult to get into a grammar school? Actually, no. Contrary to the claim...

PASCOAG GRAMMAR SCHOOL LISTED ON NATIONAL REGISTER

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  December 18, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Park Service has added the Pascoag Grammar School to the National Register of Historic...preservation. Built in 1917, the Pascoag Grammar School is a well-preserved example of an early...of the local community. The Pascoag Grammar School is located at 265 Sayles Avenue in...