How To Use Grammar school In A Sentence
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I lived only two blocks from high school and grammar school, and there were baseball diamonds and football fields.
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Ironically this was in a whinge about grammar schools.
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Currently studying Law at Melbourne University, she was dux of Girton Grammar School in Bendigo, received a Premiers Award, the Australia Award and received the highest VCE score in all of regional Victoria.
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Currently only 3 % of grammar school pupils come from families with incomes so low that they qualify for free school meals.
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Our teachers do have fewer qualifications than government teachers," admits Ghouse Mohammed Khan, principal of Indian Stars Grammar School in another Hyderabadi backstreet.
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Independent Manchester Grammar School is used to ranking among the top schools in the country.
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But the reprieve for grammar schools is probably too late for Kingston Grammar to revert to its former direct-grant status as it is now formally established as an independent institution.
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The people of means sometimes had their children educated at home, and sometimes sent them to the little colleges which have since become Columbia and Princeton, colleges which were then inferior to a good English grammar school.
VIII. The Closing of the Colonial Period. 1720-1764.
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The St Mary's U - 13 boys' team are currently heading the league positions just ahead of Leeds Grammar School.
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We might have been grammar school boys, but we still wore shorts, with socks designed to reach the knees hanging loosely round the ankles.
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Why should we be so dismissive of the grammar schools selection process when most schools stream students of similar ability for science, maths etc?
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Three local rowers, two of them oarsmen who learned their skills on the River Aire as fellow pupils at Bradford Grammar School, celebrated victory at the Henley Royal Regatta.
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Some call it a grammar school in another guise.
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Not that the background was soft: Paisley Grammar School and Glasgow University would not exactly equip him with a look of effortless languor.
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About a third of Kent secondaries are grammar schools, another third secondary moderns and the rest comprehensives.
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The first headmistress of Altrincham Grammar School for Girls was once a tutor to royal children and the school is to be given priceless sketches of the Queen Mother and the Prince of Wales by Salford artist Harold Riley to mark the occasion.
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He is also a singing teacher at Manchester Grammar School and a lay clerk at Manchester Cathedral.
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But grammar school heads say this is because their pupils have already reached high levels of attainment by that stage.
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The court was told that he had picked up the Kingston Grammar School pupil as he hitch-hiked home.
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_trouse_, is of every-day use in this county of Hereford for trimmings of hedges; that it is given by Grose as a verb in use in Warwickshire for trimming off the superfluous branches; and lastly, that it is employed as a substantive to signify shreddings by Philemon Holland, who, if I rightly remember, was many years head master of Coventry Grammar School:
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Banks had a friend at Bradford Grammar School so Debbie was lent a boat which was housed in their boathouse on the River Aire at Saltaire.
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It is a co-educational Catholic grammar school but it is open to students of all faiths and encourages the development of all in their own faith.
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By the 1970s primary teachers were being actively discouraged from teaching these fundamental disciplines - it seems educationalists threw out the grammar along with the grammar schools.
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As flight director, Mr Noble, who attended Burnley Grammar School and took up ballooning in 1974, was to mastermind the ascent and ensure the pilots return safely to earth.
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Thousands of working class people had their confidence and hopes shattered by the despised old grammar school system.
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Good primaries and grammar schools have ensured strong demand from families looking for more space and greenery.
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The economics department at Ripon Grammar School have set up a small business producing items connected with the history of the city.
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First Buses, which runs children to and from Prince Henry's Grammar School, says the school's tough discipline policy makes life easier for its drivers.
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Destined for academic greatness, Masters says he still had time to fool about at grammar school in Richmond, North Yorkshire.
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John Patterson, head of Bingley Grammar School, said the secondary would face a budget deficit of £300,000 if classes remained at their present sizes.
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Paradoxically, where are the benefits that we were meant to reap from the former grammar schools?
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Mr Noble, who attended Burnley Grammar School, took up ballooning in 1974.
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From Oswestry he went to Donnington near Shrewsbury, where under a certain Scotchman named Douglas, who was an absentee, and who died Bishop of Salisbury, he officiated as curate and master of a grammar school for a stipend — always grudgingly and contumeliously paid — of three-and-twenty pounds a year.
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It has just ended in divorce, but both their sons are happily ensconced at Ermysted's Grammar School and are growing up as real Dalesmen.
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The would-be spaceman took his 37 ft-high Starchaser rocket to Stockport Grammar School to encourage youngsters to follow his lead and take up engineering.
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So rather than obsess about grammar schools, focus on whether we have enough good leaders who can lead systemic change.
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Mary was a sixteen-year-old pupil in one of our Grammar Schools.
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He was educated at Appleby grammar school and at eighteen was admitted to the Inner Temple.
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Four tennis aces from Lancaster Royal Grammar School have been competing in the National Schools Tennis Championship finals in Hertfordshire.
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I say wheeze because every generation feels the need to reinvent a graduated state pension, much as it reinvents the grammar school and the nuclear deterrent.
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It was really fun hearing about his acting days at grammar school, and hearing about teachers.
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In both cases, opting out was perceived as a means of ensuring the survival of grammar school status.
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May has already outlined plans to help with the first new grammar schools for decades.
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After finishing her studies at the local grammar school at the age of twelve, she was sent to study at the gymnasia for girls in Kremenchuk in the Ukraine, where she spent six years.
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The research also found more than a fifth attended selective grammar schools.
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I am sitting here reading a speech by a Grammar School HeadMaster in 1948 slamming the 'sheer idleness and sloppiness' of the young, their 'lack of moral fibre', their 'unruliness'.
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Grammar schools and sixth-form colleges are successful because they can recruit academic staff.
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As Colston’s ran to very good food the Head was a famous Epicure and its masters each had a roomlet to himself, there was very little reason to leave unless one were tapped for Eton, Harrow or Bristol Grammar School.
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Northern Ireland still uses the selective grammar school system that was largely replaced by comprehensive education in Britain in the 1970s.
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Bingley Grammar School is the only secondary in Bradford - and one of just a handful in the region - to have been singled out for special praise.
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One may cite in this context the by no means exceptional example of the seventeenth-century antiquary Simonds D' Ewes, who had crammed his notebooks with no less than 2,850 Latin and Greek verses by the time he left grammar school!
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A secondary modern in England's last bastion of selective education has turned itself into a comprehensive in a plan to rival nearby grammar schools.
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He taught at Swansea Grammar School, a middle-class fee-paying establishment, for thirty-six years.
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In 1913 he graduated from the grammar school being dux of the school and winning the gold medal.
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He was educated at Haslingden Grammar School.
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While all the other little girls in grammar school had very straight hair worn in cute ponytails, I had to suffer with a frizzy Afro.
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The event gives the junior pupils from primary schools in and around Appleby a taste of grammar school life.
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The abolition of most grammar schools kicked away the ladder for children from poorer backgrounds.
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There will be calls for a return to the grammar school system.
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Labour has previously been accused of using grammar schools as a political ploy.
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Researchers have also recently found that people in grammar schools do better than pupils in underfinanced inner-city hell-hole comprehensives.
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Grammar schools and sixth-form colleges are successful because they can recruit academic staff.
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Born near Dublin, the son of a silversmith and a mantua maker, he'd run away from grammar school at 16 and joined a bank of strolling players.
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Grammar school heads claim that schools which insist on taking only those that list them as first choice are being unfair to parents.
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Tuesday is senior training night; this time of the year the grammar school gym is a welcome indoor facility.
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The founder often made provision for the mass-priest to teach a grammar school.
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What happens if they put down a non-grammar school as their first preference, but also enter their child for the admissions test at our school?
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Born in Lancashire, the son of the headmaster of Ripon Grammar School, Peter studied art at Leeds School of Art.
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Sophie went on to become head choirgirl at Bradford Grammar School at the same time as famous singer Gareth Gates was head choirboy.
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By day he was well-liked, funny and effortlessly clever at grammar school.
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They were mostly used to discriminate between doubtful grammar school entrants.
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He left the grammar school in Narberth at fifteen to become apprenticed to a Narberth druggist.
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My son Johnny was at the grammar school, and a towardly child.
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Those with more of those variants will inevitably be overrepresented at grammar schools.
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I notice that Wikipedia says: Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School KGGS is a grammar school for girls in Grantham, Lincolnshire.
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Despite attending classes in temporary accommodation until their new school is built next year, pupils at Manchester Jewish Grammar School are still enjoying a full timetable.
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Sophie went on to become head choirgirl at Bradford Grammar School at the same time as famous singer Gareth Gates was head choirboy.
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We live in Kent, one of only a few counties with a full grammar school system.
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They have self-indulgent little rows, as they did over grammar schools.
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Grammar schools can play a role in driving social mobility.
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I won a scholarship to grammar school.
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I understood that comprehensive education was designed to call a halt to the tragedy of those left behind when the grammar school kids upped and offed.
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He was sent to Gloucester Grammar School, but becoming ‘mired’ in his Latin accidence was apprenticed to a waterman, pressed for the navy, and was present at the siege of Cadiz.
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As such it takes us back to the days when Cameron was denouncing anyone who backed Grammar Schools in intemperate terms or rejecting any contrary position as ‘pointless’ or deluded or whatever.
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The students and the headmaster at the boys-only grammar school backed his stand.
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Since he took on his role at the end of last year, he has been saying things which have put a new spring in the step of anti-grammar school campaigners.
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Parents wanting to be rid of undesirables will be free to set up their own grammar schools with their own selection systems.
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He also admitted handling a coat stolen from Chelmsford Grammar School a few days later.
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But he went off message by declaring his support for grammar schools and warning ministers not to build a third runway at Heathrow.
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So rather than obsess about grammar schools, focus on whether we have enough good leaders who can lead systemic change.
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She said:'We are also trying to ensure grammar schools help to increase the quality and standard of education in an area more generally.
The Sun
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It has just ended in divorce, but both their sons are happily ensconced at their Grammar School.
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Re David Lindsey's comment, Kesteven and Grantham Grammar School for Girls is still part of the state system as it is run by Lincolnshire County Council.
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the grammar schools were assuredly not intended for the gentry alone
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A former pupil of Bingley Grammar School, he had worked as a roofer and also as a bar cellarman at the Midland Hotel in Bingley.
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Ironically this was in a whinge about grammar schools.
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I leaned against the wall and thought back to a graduation party at my old grammar school.
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For the chantries were the grammar schools of the period -- the incumbent
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Piano maestro Lucy McLellan will host a classical music concert at Bradford Grammar School to raise funds for charity Teenage Cancer Trust.
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He sat the entrance examinations for Grammar School but did not gain admission, so he went to Derby Central School.
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David Ellis has been involved with horses since grammar school and the late fifties.
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She was a clever girl with a passion for books and an urge to write, but her academic achievements at Ripon Grammar School were unimpressive.
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The reality is that many of our youth have gone beyond that grammar school education so suited to the dilettantes of long-time European metropolitan salons.
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They boarded at Kirkham Grammar School and, ever since they left, talented youngsters have been following what is now a well worn path to Heywood Road.
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Some enterprising grammar schools, such as Rugby, combined a changing ethos with a more commercialized approach to attracting pupils, by taking on fee-paying boarders.
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More recently, he has declared opposition to comprehensives and support for the return of grammar schools.
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Farmers and tradesmen who could count on a surplus of income at the end of the year were able to educate their sons at grammar school, and even at university.
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That means the state should fund a system which offered a multiplicity of schools - grammar schools, yes, but many other types of specialisms, too.
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Calday Grange Grammar School also faced a second ballot over opting out after it applied for grant-maintained status last year.
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This time we're in a suburban grammar school that's under threat from a ghostly presence.
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The grammar schools in University towns had therefore originally no special importance, but many of the undergraduates who came up at thirteen or fourteen required some training such as William of Waynflete provided for his younger demies in connexion with the Grammar School which he attached to Magdalen, or such as Walter de Merton considered desirable when he ordained that there should be a Master of Grammar in his College to teach the poor boys, and that their seniors were to go to him in any difficulty without any false shame ( "absque rubore").
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Born in Glen Lee Lane, Keighley, she attended Keighley Girls' Grammar School and started off as an auxiliary nurse in St John's Hospital.
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May has already outlined plans to help with the first new grammar schools for decades.
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The research also found more than a fifth attended selective grammar schools.
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I have been robbing and killing since I was expelled from Mushin Grammar School in form two, for smoking and selling marijuana. No operation is too risky for me to undertake.
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He bought a nice house in a middle-class suburb called West Bridgeford and I would cycle many miles each day to and from the Grammar School, which was middled sized.
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Tom Compson Trumble went to school at Brighton Grammar School, metriculated at the very early age of sixteen, and was dux of the school.
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It failed to end selection at the local grammar school.
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The ideology of merit had elevated the grammar school above technical schools, technical schools above secondary moderns.
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The 'Gymnasium' is the closest equivalent to the grammar school in England.
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The average attendance at the Grammar School in the six years to 1881 was 138, but in 1882-86,78.
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Humorous half-columns in the local papers, written in the customary silly way by unlicked cub reporters just out of grammar school, tickled the fancy of San Francisco for a fleeting moment in that the steamship Mariposa had rescued some sea-waifs possessed of a cock-and-bull story that not even the reporters believed.
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The majority of these producers did not attend fee-paying schools; more went to grammar schools or comprehensives.
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Because of the spread of comprehensive education from the mid-1960s, by 1990 only about 7 per cent of local authorities had retained grammar schools.
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Jessye Harris and James Gould will lead the students at Geraldton Grammar School this year as school captains.
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The former Blackburn Girls Grammar School pupil studied at Sheffield Art College and went on to study fine art, painting and sculpting at Portsmouth University.
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He went to grammar school and became, along with my grandma, my motivation for doing the same.
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During grammar school, I faint every time we have an air raid drill.
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It is oxymoronic to have grammar schools alongside comprehensive schools.
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Calday Grange Grammar School also faced a second ballot over opting out after it applied for grant-maintained status last year.
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But he went off message by declaring his support for grammar schools and warning ministers not to build a third runway at Heathrow.
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The selection of pupils for grammar schools was biased in favour of the middle-class child of a small family from a good area.
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Houses here are close to parks, the golf course and in the grammar school catchment area.
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He had the ear of the King and managed to secure a grant, enabling the poor cobbler's son from Odense to attend grammar school.
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The snuffing out of that option, by the ideologically driven determination to replace grammar schools with comprehensives, was a quite explicit piece of social engineering.
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Charles will be taking his GCSEs at Bingley Grammar School this year and is managing to lead a relatively normal life.
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It was experts who abolished grammar schools for their presumed comprehensive paradise.
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The association's aim is to provide coaching support for teachers at Ilkley Grammar School and its feeder primary schools to make competitive rugby more widely available to young people in the community.
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He is in the third year at Leeds Grammar School.
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Tutoring is increasingly popular in preparation for the 11-plus and Common Entrance - the traditional entry exams for grammar schools and private senior schools.
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The 'Gymnasium' is the closest equivalent to the grammar school in England.
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The anti-grammar school campaigners complained that the ballot rules were too complicated and unfair.
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If a parent wants to send their child to a grammar school but the application fails, the child forfeits a place at a higher performing comprehensive and risks ending up at a weaker school.
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One possibility is that all pupils in grammar school areas should be automatically entered for the test.
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It's like revisiting your old grammar school - you look at the water fountain you once stood on tip toes to reach and now is at the middle of your thigh.
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FOR most of the four centuries since it was founded, Batley Grammar School in West Yorkshire has charged to educate its pupils.
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My daughter is attending her local grammar school sixth form.
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During grammar school, I faint every time we have an air raid drill.
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And a German gymnasium has more to do with intellectual than with physical health - it is a grammar school.
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All these young men and women were former grammar school pupils.
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In the latest set of school league tables, comprehensives are getting results as good as or higher than grammar schools in the ‘value added’ part of the table.
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About 12,000 pupils went on to study at the same 400 selective grammar schools or top-rated comprehensives.
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Nevertheless, Young has been criticised by opponents on the Left, including educationalist Fiona Millar, for being a typical middle-class parent who wants a grammar school in all but name.
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She and her sister were both taught to draw by a grammar school teacher who had been boarding at their home.
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Government proposals to increase the number of grammar schools have increased pressure for them to become more socially inclusive.
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John Major scholarship boy who made it to the local grammar school and was lucky to obtain patronage from the local squire.
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Her husband Ronnie, once headmaster at the local grammar school, is still in a coma after the bombing.
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However, as long as the Party seeks to limit the choice to others, for example by the abolition of grant-maintained schools and opposition to grammar schools, the charges of hypocrisy will continue.
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Some call it a grammar school in another guise.
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The reintroduction of grammar schools would have a quicker and more positive effect on social mobility than parenting revolutions.
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‘There is no point at which grammar schools exceed the performance of comprehensives at teaching able pupils,’ he said at the time.
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A secondary modern in England's last bastion of selective education has turned itself into a comprehensive in a plan to rival nearby grammar schools.
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He candled the eggs - checking them against a flame for defects - and took deliveries, but left grammar school with no wish to join the business.
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It is a co-educational Catholic grammar school but it is open to students of all faiths and encourages the development of all in their own faith.
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This time we're in a suburban grammar school that's under threat from a ghostly presence.
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In 1959, two grammar school boys take different paths: one achieves academic success, the other becomes a drifter working in a holiday camp and on fairgrounds, before deciding that his destiny lies in rock 'n' roll.
