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BBC school broadcasts on television started in September 1957 - four Nottingham schools received the broadcasts from 24 September 1957 to 9 December 1957. WG Jackson, Nottingham Director of Education, said some people say that the vicarious experience of pictures on television is not good for the pupil, but that remains to be seen .
For many years it was known as Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School (QEGS) for Boys, after the Queen had issued Letters Patent authorising a Free Grammar School in Mansfield. Originally situated in buildings at Church Side, close to St Peter's Church in Mansfield town centre, construction of the present buildings started in 1875 with the school ...
The uniform was all purple, skirt, blazer, purple/yellow tie and a white blouse. On closing, the buildings became part of Nottingham Trent University. In 2004 they were up for sale for £500,000. Nearby to the school is a cliff that overlooks the River Trent. It is said that a lady of the Clifton family jumped off the cliff and died when she ...
The school is sponsored by the Greenwood Dale Foundation Trust, [15] however Nottingham Girls' Academy continues to coordinate with Nottingham City Council for admissions. Nottingham Girls' Academy offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils, [ 16 ] while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A Levels ...
The income, amounting to nearly £2400, is thus appropriated: to the grammar school, £270; to the song school, £105; to ten singing boys, £37. 16.; to national schools, £150; to a dispensary, £150; to the commissioners for lighting, paving, and improving the town, £290; and to the churchwardens for the repair of the church, clerk's and ...
Two schools (Chatham House Grammar School and Clarendon House Grammar School) merged in 2013. [6] This list does not include former direct grant grammar schools which elected to remain independent, often retaining the title grammar school. For such schools see the list of direct grant grammar schools.
The Bar Convent Grammar School, York RC girls state mixed merged [24] Ladies of Mary, Scarborough RC girls closed [25] – – Nottinghamshire: Nottingham High School for Girls – girls ind. girls ind., GDST Oldham: Hulme Grammar School for Boys* – boys ind. mixed ind., HMC Hulme Grammar School for Girls* – girls ind. Oxfordshire: Abingdon ...
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.