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Secrets and Words is a 2012 British drama television series shown on BBC One, produced by Jimmy McGovern's production company, LA Productions. [1] Each episode is a story on the theme of adult literacy. BBC Skillswise collaborated with the series, providing adult learners with an activity to participate with following each episode.
The tripartite system was, in effect, a two-tier system with grammar schools for the academically gifted and secondary modern schools for the others. [7] [6] Grammar schools received the lion's share of the money, reinforcing their image as the best part of the system, and places in grammar schools were highly sought after.
BBC Bitesize, [1] also abbreviated to Bitesize, is the BBC's free online study support resource for school-age pupils in the United Kingdom. It is designed to aid pupils in both schoolwork and, for older pupils, exams .
A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically oriented selective secondary school. The original purpose of medieval grammar schools was the teaching of Latin.
Skills for Life was also a national strategy in England for improving adult literacy, language (ESOL) and numeracy skills and was established as part of the wider national skills strategy by the Labour Party from 2001 to 2010.
The BBC began broadcasting schools programmes on television on 24 September 1957, airing in the afternoon. Morning transmissions began on 19 September 1960. Until 1972, schools programming along with adult education programmes were usually the only daytime programmes shown on both BBC and ITV, as the government regulated and restricted the ...
It was established by a royal charter as Morpeth Grammar School and later as King Edward VI Grammar School. [1] The school became a comprehensive school in the 1970s and an academy in December 2011. [2] It is locally known as "KEVI" or simply "King Edward's". In 2011, the school became part of The Three Rivers Learning Trust. [3]
Hall Cross Academy (formerly Hall Cross School and Doncaster Grammar School), is a co-educational academy in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. The 2012–2013 term saw the establishment change its name to Hall Cross Academy. It is named after the Hall Cross on Hall Cross Hill, on the opposite side of the main road through Doncaster.