Sentences with phrase «grammar school boys»

The Tory - supporting commentator has called school wheelchair ramps a sign of «ghastly inclusivity» and once described working - class grammar school boys who secured places at Oxford as «universally unattractive» and «small, vaguely deformed undergraduates».

This is now the era of grammar school boys and girls.

The other major «Raj» nostalgia of the 1980s was the television serialisation The Jewel in the Crown, in which the villain — Ronald Merrick — was depicted as a sadistic deviant who happened to come from a lower middle class background, was a grammar school boy and a closet homosexual as well.

The late Harry Thompson who brought HIGNFY to TV made a conscious decision on his part to have Ian, the grammar school boy, on one side and Paul, the voice of the working class, on the other.

A grammar school boy from Essex who went on to work in law, he spent his first five years in parliament representing Hornchurch, but had to apply for a series of other seats as it was being abolished, eventually winning Old Bexley and Sidcup.

There was said to be backbench disquiet that the push for more selection had been sidelined - and there will be scrutiny of whether Mr Hinds, a former grammar school boy, will be more sympathetic.

As a grammar school boy who can put the letters CBE behind his name, potter Perry has done fairly well out of his enslavement.

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There he visited a grammar school that friend and famous chef Daniel Boulud attended as a boy, and ate a school lunch with 2nd graders.

He went to Aberdare Boys» Grammar School (became Aberdare Boys» Comprehensive School in 1978) on Cwmdare Road in Trecynon near Aberdare.

Terry Leahy, a working - class boy who gained educational mobility through a grammar school, went from the store floor to CEO of Tesco in 14 years.

However, former shadow home secretary David Davis recently criticised the abolition of grammar schools for creating a «dominance» of public school boys in top jobs which had «handicapped the intellectual capacity of the country».

Hames was born in Hertfordshire and attended Watford Grammar School for Boys.

«Tories well ahead in two new opinion polls Main Public school boys run Britain says David Davis during a defence of grammar schools»

Christopher Bantick is a Melbourne writer and senior literature teacher at a Melbourne boys» Anglican grammar school.

The head of Altrincham Grammar School for Boys, Tim Gartside, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that he and his governors were considering asking for voluntary contributions of # 30 or # 40 a month from parents if the cuts took place.

«I think it's important to have a digital curriculum because the boys need to be prepared for the 21st century that they are entering into when they leave school,» Ross Featherstone, Brighton Grammar Headmaster, said.

A GRAMMAR school for boys has opened its new # 3.2 m sixth form centre which features a «striking» finish thanks to the specification of EQUITONE [tectiva] fibre cement facade material.

Holly Rose is a Year 7 - 12 science teacher and Assistant Director of Studies at Christ Church Grammar School, an independent K - 12 boys school in School, an independent K - 12 boys school in school in Perth.

Tintern Grammar's model offers a combination of single - sex and co-educational years, whereby co-educational sessions are offered in the early learning years, and then with girls and boys in separate classes through Junior and Middle Schools.

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Other private faith schools written to by the DfE were Islamic schools Tayyibah Girls» School in Stamford Hill, Olive Tree School in Lewisham, Al - Furqan Community College for Boys in Birmingham, and Date Valley School in Surrey, Jewish schools Beis Soroh Schneirer and Beth Jacob Grammar School, both in Hendon, and Luton Pentecostal Church Christian Academy.

Boys from The Manchester Grammar School provide support to pupils at St Richard's Primary School in their maths lessons.

Boys from The Manchester Grammar School take part in a guiding / volunteering project initiated by the Manchester Royal Infirmary.

This boys» school dates back to 1677 and has previously been a charity and then a state - funded grammar school.

So the boys» grammar school in Tunbridge Wells has altered its admission policy to give priority to pupils from low income families who also live close to the school.

The government statistics watchdog has criticised a tweet from the Department for Education that claimed «white working class boys» performed better in grammar schools than in comprehensives.

Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for boys has altered its admission policy to give priority to pupils from low income families who also live close to the sSchool for boys has altered its admission policy to give priority to pupils from low income families who also live close to the schoolschool.

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Before his appointment, Martin was Headmaster of Watford Grammar School for Boys.

Five other grammar schools were previously rated as requires improvement and one — Chatham grammar school for boys in Kent — fell into special measures.

Leading the school is Michael Roden, who was headhunted for the role while working at King Edward VI Camp Hill school for boys, an outstanding grammar school in Birmingham.

Tier two was to be a grammar school for boys selected by merit from elementary school and kept in boarding school at state expense.

Manchester Grammar School, a seven - to - 18 boys» school, had the greatest gap, as no women had received a bonus while 0.7 per cent of meSchool, a seven - to - 18 boys» school, had the greatest gap, as no women had received a bonus while 0.7 per cent of meschool, had the greatest gap, as no women had received a bonus while 0.7 per cent of men had.

For selective schools, Progress 8 scores for disadvantaged pupils ranged from -2.75 for Colyton Grammar School in Devon, to 1.34 for Westcliff High School for Boys Academy in Southend - on - Sea.

After a number of heroic career failures (rock musician, herbalist, accountant) she succumbed to genetic pressure and became a French teacher for 12 years at a boys» grammar school in Leeds, and later taught a French Literature course at Sheffield University.

He was educated at a grammar school for boys in Surrey, and later read English and Philosophy at the University of Kent, Canterbury, during which time he was also employed as a community worker in Glasgow (1976).

He came to Britain in 1960 when his father began research at the National Institute of Oceanography, and was educated at a grammar school for boys in Surrey.

Comment: Gentlemen & Players is set inside the hallowed walls of St Oswald's Grammar School for Boys, an archaic establishment on the edge of an unnamed and unremarkable Northern English town (school motto: Audere, agere, auferre: To dare, to strive, to conSchool for Boys, an archaic establishment on the edge of an unnamed and unremarkable Northern English town (school motto: Audere, agere, auferre: To dare, to strive, to conschool motto: Audere, agere, auferre: To dare, to strive, to conquer).

For generations, privileged young men have attended St. Oswald's Grammar School for Boys, groomed for success by the likes of Roy Straitley, the eccentric Classics teacher who has been a fixture there for more than thirty years.

He was educated at a grammar school for boys in Surrey and then read English and Philosophy at the University of Kent, Canterbury, followed by a creative writing course at the University of East Anglia.

From 1986 to 1993, Remy attended Vinters Boys School, described as «a living hell», and Chatham Grammar School for Boys.

Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Junior School has a proud and distinguished history of educating boys, blended with an outstanding 21st century learning environment;