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Unusually for a UK school, the St James Schools teach Sanskrit., [3] [4] [5] which is a compulsory second language for the Prep students. Warwick Jessup, head of Sanskrit department, says: "This is the most perfect and logical language in the world, the only one that is not named after the people who speak it.
In such schools, learning Sanskrit is an option for grades 5 to 8 (Classes V to VIII). ... St James Junior School in London, England, offers Sanskrit as part of the ...
When it was set up, St James was the only mixed, although separated by single sex in the classroom setting, non-selective Catholic school in London. The other Catholic Secondary schools were single sex, selective and generally fee paying. In 1949 a further expansion followed when St. Thomas' Independent School in Stanmore was annexed to St ...
St. James Parish Public Schools, Louisiana Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about schools, colleges, or other educational institutions which are associated with the same title.
In 1975, SES founded the St James Independent Schools in London, comprising one school for girls and one for boys, both catering to children from 4–18 years of age. [93] [94] Today, only around 10 per cent of the children at St James have parents involved with SES. [4] They're ranked in the Sunday Times' top UK schools guide. [95]
At Oxford he won the Boden scholarship for Sanskrit in 1837, and graduated B.A. 1840, and M.A. in 1844. [1] In 1841, Jones became curate of St Andrew, Holborn, and in the following year, rector of St Martin-in-the-Fields; in 1845 he became incumbent of St. James's, Curtain Road, Shoreditch.
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William Jones was born in London; his father William Jones (1675–1749) was a mathematician from Anglesey in Wales, noted for introducing the use of the symbol π.The young William Jones was a linguistic prodigy, who in addition to his native languages English and Welsh, [4] learned Greek, Latin, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew and the basics of Chinese writing at an early age. [5]