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Preparatory school (UK)
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A preparatory school in the United Kingdom is a student selective, fee-paying independent primary school that caters primarily for children up to approximately the age of 13. They are also now used by parents in the hope of getting their child into a good state selective grammar school, boys prep schools are generally for 8- to 13-year-olds, who are prepared for the Common Entrance Examination, the key to entry into many secondary independent schools. Before the age of seven or eight, the term school is used. Girls private schools in England tend to follow the age ranges of state schools more closely than those of boys. Girls preparatory schools usually admit girls from the age of four or five, however, as more girls now go on to formerly single-sex boys schools that have become co-educational, the separation is less clear. There are 130,000 pupils in over 500 prep schools of all types and sizes, prep schools may be for boys or girls only, or may be co-educational. They may be day schools, boarding schools, weekly boarding, flexi-boarding, pre-prep schools are generally associated with prep schools, and take children from reception through to year two. Earlier provision is generally characterised as nursery or kindergarten and they are now found in all parts of the United Kingdom, and elsewhere. Incorporated Association of Preparatory Schools Independent Schools Council THE MAKING OF THEM - The British Attitude to Children and the Boarding School System
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London
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London /ˈlʌndən/ is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom. Standing on the River Thames in the south east of the island of Great Britain and it was founded by the Romans, who named it Londinium. Londons ancient core, the City of London, largely retains its 1. 12-square-mile medieval boundaries. London is a global city in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism. It is crowned as the worlds largest financial centre and has the fifth- or sixth-largest metropolitan area GDP in the world, London is a world cultural capital. It is the worlds most-visited city as measured by international arrivals and has the worlds largest city airport system measured by passenger traffic, London is the worlds leading investment destination, hosting more international retailers and ultra high-net-worth individuals than any other city. Londons universities form the largest concentration of education institutes in Europe. In 2012, London became the first city to have hosted the modern Summer Olympic Games three times, London has a diverse range of people and cultures, and more than 300 languages are spoken in the region. Its estimated mid-2015 municipal population was 8,673,713, the largest of any city in the European Union, Londons urban area is the second most populous in the EU, after Paris, with 9,787,426 inhabitants at the 2011 census. The citys metropolitan area is the most populous in the EU with 13,879,757 inhabitants, the city-region therefore has a similar land area and population to that of the New York metropolitan area. London was the worlds most populous city from around 1831 to 1925, Other famous landmarks include Buckingham Palace, the London Eye, Piccadilly Circus, St Pauls Cathedral, Tower Bridge, Trafalgar Square, and The Shard. The London Underground is the oldest underground railway network in the world, the etymology of London is uncertain. It is an ancient name, found in sources from the 2nd century and it is recorded c.121 as Londinium, which points to Romano-British origin, and hand-written Roman tablets recovered in the city originating from AD 65/70-80 include the word Londinio. The earliest attempted explanation, now disregarded, is attributed to Geoffrey of Monmouth in Historia Regum Britanniae and this had it that the name originated from a supposed King Lud, who had allegedly taken over the city and named it Kaerlud. From 1898, it was accepted that the name was of Celtic origin and meant place belonging to a man called *Londinos. The ultimate difficulty lies in reconciling the Latin form Londinium with the modern Welsh Llundain, which should demand a form *lōndinion, from earlier *loundiniom. The possibility cannot be ruled out that the Welsh name was borrowed back in from English at a later date, and thus cannot be used as a basis from which to reconstruct the original name. Until 1889, the name London officially applied only to the City of London, two recent discoveries indicate probable very early settlements near the Thames in the London area
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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation
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Richmond London Borough Council
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Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council is the local authority for the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in Greater London, England. It is a London borough council, one of 32 in London, in 1965, local government in London was reorganised under the London Government Act 1963. The council was elected a year before coming into its powers, the London Government Act envisaged that the councils of the new London boroughs would share power with the Greater London Council. This arrangement lasted until 1986 when borough councils gained responsibility for most local services including highways, waste disposal. As an outer London borough council, Richmond upon Thames has been an education authority since 1965, Richmond upon Thames was controlled by the Conservatives from its inception to 1983 when the Liberals and SDP won control in a by-election. The Council was then led by David Williams until he stood down in favour of Serge Lourie in 2001, between 2002 and 2006 the council was controlled by the Conservatives under Greater London Assembly member Tony Arbour. Between 2006 and 2010 the council reverted to the Liberal Democrats under the Leadership of Serge Lourie, since 2010 it has been run by Conservative councillors under Lord True. Of the 54 council seats,38 are Conservative,15 are Liberal Democrat and 1 is Labour, elections for all Council seats are held every four years, the next election will be in 2018. Richmond upon Thames local elections London Borough of Richmond upon Thames website
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Department for Education
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The Department for Education is a department of Her Majestys Government responsible for child protection, education, apprenticeships and wider skills in England. The DfE is also responsible for women and equalities policy, the DfE was formed on 12 May 2010 by the incoming Cameron ministry, taking on the responsibilities and resources of the Department for Children, Schools and Families. In July 2016, the Department took over responsibilities for higher and further education and for apprenticeship from the dissolved Department for Business, Innovation, the Permanent Secretary is Jonathan Slater. DfE is responsible for education, children’s services, higher and further education policy, apprenticeships and wider skills in England, and equalities. The predecessor department employed the equivalent of 2,695 staff as of April 2008 and as at June 2016, in 2015-16, the DfE has a budget of £58. 2bn, which includes £53. 6bn resource spending and £4. 6bn of capital investments. The EFA was formed on 1 April 2012 by bringing together the functions of two non-departmental public bodies, the Young Peoples Learning Agency and Partnerships for Schools and it was established on 1 April 2013, when the Teaching Agency merged with the National College for School Leadership. The Skills Funding Agency is responsible for funding skills training for further education in England, as well as running the National Apprenticeship Service, the SFA was formed on 1 April 2010, following the closure of the Learning and Skills Council. It shares a Chief Executive, Peter Lauener, and Chief Financial Officer with the Education Funding Agency, the Standards and Testing Agency is responsible for developing and delivering all statutory assessments for school pupils in England. It was formed on 1 October 2011 and took over the functions of the Qualifications, the STA is regulated by the examinations regulator, Ofqual. The DfE is also supported by 10 public bodies, Education, youth, following Michael Goves speech in 2012, the subject of Information Communication Technology has been disapplied and replaced by Computing. With the new curriculum, materials have been written by companies, to support non-specialist teachers. The Computing at Schools organisation has created a Network of Teaching Excellence to support schools with the new curriculum, deflecting European Union influence on national education policy-making, the case of the United Kingdom. Official website Official department YouTube channel Official Flickr presence
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East Sheen
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East Sheen, also known as Sheen, is a suburb of London in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. This commercial thoroughfare, well served by transport, is the Upper Richmond Road West which connects Richmond to Putney. Central to this street is The Triangle, an island with a war memorial. The main railway station serving the area, Mortlake, is centred 300m north of this, the earliest recorded use of the name is c.950 as Sceon and means shed or shelters. The area was designated separately from Sheen from the 13th century, manor and hamlet status East Sheen was a hamlet in the parish of Mortlake, East-Sheen is a pleasant hamlet in this parish, situated on a rising ground considerably above the level of the river. Here are several villas, the vicinity to Richmond-park. Earliest references specifically to the present area of land, rather than references to parts of Mortlake, emerge in the 13th century, generally under its early name of Westhall. Originally one carucate, it was sold in 1473 by Michael Gaynsford and Margaret his wife in the right of Margaret to William Welbeck, citizen and haberdasher, the Welbecks held it until selling in 1587. Later owners of what remained, the Whitfields, Juxons and Taylors were equally not titled, as with Mortlakes manorial owners, nor had an above average size or lavish manor house. Development of the Temple Grove, Palmerston country estate The southern estate of Temple Grove, East Sheen, first belonged to Sir Abraham Cullen and he died in 1668, and his first son Sir John in 1677. It belonged to the Temples until Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston and it was bought by Sir Thomas Bernard, who rebuilt the Jacobean style front of the house shown in a drawing hung in the house of 1611. Sir Thomas sold it about 1811 to Rev. William Pearson who founded the Temple Grove Preparatory School for boys, the school moved in 1907 to Eastbourne and the estate was given over to house and apartment builders. East Sheen was included in the Metropolitan Police District in 1840, before 1900, Mortlake developed a secular vestry to help administer poor relief, maintain roads, ditches and other affairs. From 1892 to 1894 Mortlake formed part of the expanded Municipal Borough of Richmond, in 1894 nearby North Sheen was created as a civil parish, being split off from Mortlake and remaining in the Municipal Borough of Richmond. The remainder of Mortlake was instead transferred to Barnes Urban District, in 1965 North Sheen was incorporated in Kew which, with the rest of the Municipal Borough of Richmond, joined Twickenham and Barnes M. B. s to form the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. In the wards of the United Kingdom, Sheen has the largest share of Richmond Park of its surrounding five wards and this wide-footpath street with bus lanes is the Upper Richmond Road West which connects Richmond to Putney. Central to this street is The Triangle, a traffic island with a war memorial. The main railway station serving the area, Mortlake, is centred 300m north of this, East Sheen lies in the ecclesiastical parish of Mortlake with East Sheen
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Richmond Park
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Richmond Park, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, was created by Charles I in the 17th century as a deer park. The largest of Londons Royal Parks, it is of national and international importance for wildlife conservation and its landscapes have inspired many famous artists and it has been a location for several films and TV series. Richmond Park includes many buildings of architectural or historic interest, the Grade I-listed White Lodge was formerly a royal residence and is now home to the Royal Ballet School. Historically the preserve of the monarch, the park is now open for all to use and includes a course and other facilities for sport. It played an important role in world wars and in the 1948 and 2012 Olympics. Richmond Park is the largest of Londons Royal Parks and it is the second-largest park in London and is Britains second-largest urban walled park after Sutton Park, Birmingham. Measuring 3.69 square miles, it is comparable in size to Pariss Bois de Vincennes and it is almost half the size of Casa de Campo and around three times the size of Central Park in New York. Of national and international importance for conservation, most of Richmond Park is a Site of Special Scientific Interest. The largest Site of Special Scientific Interest in London, it was designated as an SSSI in 1992, excluding the area of the course, Pembroke Lodge Gardens. In its citation, Natural England said, Richmond Park has been managed as a deer park since the seventeenth century. In particular, Richmond Park is of importance for its diverse deadwood beetle fauna associated with the ancient trees found throughout the parkland, in addition the park supports the most extensive area of dry acid grassland in Greater London. The park was designated as an SAC in April 2005 on account of its having a number of ancient trees with decaying timber. A public open space since the mid C19, Richmond Park is located in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It is close to Richmond, Ham, Kingston upon Thames, Wimbledon, Roehampton, day-to-day management of the Royal Parks has been delegated to The Royal Parks, an executive agency of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. The Royal Parks Board sets the direction for the agency. Appointments to the Board are made by the Mayor of London, the Friends of Richmond Park and the Friends of Bushy Park co-chair the Richmond and Bushy Parks Forum, comprising 38 local groups of local stakeholder organisations. Although welcoming the principles of the new arrangements, the forum. Richmond Park is enclosed by a wall with several gates
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London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
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The London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in south-west London, England, forms part of Outer London and is the only London borough on both sides of the River Thames. It was created in 1965 when three smaller council areas amalgamated under the London Government Act 1963 and it is governed by Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council. The borough is approximately half parkland – large areas of Londons open space fall within the boundaries, including Richmond Park, Kew Gardens, Bushy Park. A neighbouring authority in Surrey achieved the best quality of life in that report, demography is a diverse picture as in all of London, each district should be looked at separately and even those do not reflect all neighbourhoods. Whatever generalisations are used, the texture of London poverty by its minutely localised geography must always be taken into account according to an influential poverty report of 2010. Londons German business and expatriate community is centred on this borough, the above are arranged by post town Parks take up a great deal of the borough and include Richmond Park, Bushy Park, Kew Gardens, and Hampton Court Park. There are over 100 parks and open spaces within its boundary and 21 miles of river frontage,140 hectares within the borough are designated as part of the Metropolitan Green Belt. The name Richmond upon Thames was coined at that time, it is now commonly but inaccurately used to refer to Richmond only, the boroughs history is reflected in the coat of arms, which was officially granted on 7 May 1966. It is, Ermine a portcullis or within a bordure gules charged with eight fleurs-de-lis or. The crest is, On a wreath argent and gules out of a mural crown gules a swan rousant argent in beak a branch of climbing red roses leaved and entwined about the neck proper. The supporters are, On either side a griffin gules, armed and beaked azure, each supporting an oar proper, the blade of the dark blue. Red, gold and ermine are the royal colours, reflecting Richmonds royal history. The swan represents the River Thames, which flows through the borough, the oars are from the Oxford University Boat Club and the Cambridge University Boat Club, reflecting the fact that the Boat Race between the two universities ends at Mortlake in the borough. The borough currently has a Conservative-led council which has been the most common administration since its formation, the borough is served by many Transport for London bus routes. The borough is connected to central London and Reading by the National Rail services of South West Trains, the London Undergrounds District line serves Richmond and Kew Gardens stations, both are also served by London Overground trains on the North London Line. The other stations are, Barnes, Barnes Bridge, Fulwell, Hampton, Hampton Wick, Mortlake, North Sheen, St Margarets, Strawberry Hill, Teddington, Twickenham, Richmond upon Thames is the local education authority for the borough. The borough has a football club, Hampton & Richmond Borough F. C. who play at Beveree Stadium in Hampton. The Twickenham Stadium hosts rugby internationals and the Twickenham Stoop is home to the Harlequins Rugby Team, Richmond Rugby Club are also active and share their grounds with London Scottish F. C
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England
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England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west, the Irish Sea lies northwest of England and the Celtic Sea lies to the southwest. England is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east, the country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain in its centre and south, and includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly, and the Isle of Wight. England became a state in the 10th century, and since the Age of Discovery. The Industrial Revolution began in 18th-century England, transforming its society into the worlds first industrialised nation, Englands terrain mostly comprises low hills and plains, especially in central and southern England. However, there are uplands in the north and in the southwest, the capital is London, which is the largest metropolitan area in both the United Kingdom and the European Union. In 1801, Great Britain was united with the Kingdom of Ireland through another Act of Union to become the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1922 the Irish Free State seceded from the United Kingdom, leading to the latter being renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain, the name England is derived from the Old English name Englaland, which means land of the Angles. The Angles were one of the Germanic tribes that settled in Great Britain during the Early Middle Ages, the Angles came from the Angeln peninsula in the Bay of Kiel area of the Baltic Sea. The earliest recorded use of the term, as Engla londe, is in the ninth century translation into Old English of Bedes Ecclesiastical History of the English People. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, its spelling was first used in 1538. The earliest attested reference to the Angles occurs in the 1st-century work by Tacitus, Germania, the etymology of the tribal name itself is disputed by scholars, it has been suggested that it derives from the shape of the Angeln peninsula, an angular shape. An alternative name for England is Albion, the name Albion originally referred to the entire island of Great Britain. The nominally earliest record of the name appears in the Aristotelian Corpus, specifically the 4th century BC De Mundo, in it are two very large islands called Britannia, these are Albion and Ierne. But modern scholarly consensus ascribes De Mundo not to Aristotle but to Pseudo-Aristotle, the word Albion or insula Albionum has two possible origins. Albion is now applied to England in a poetic capacity. Another romantic name for England is Loegria, related to the Welsh word for England, Lloegr, the earliest known evidence of human presence in the area now known as England was that of Homo antecessor, dating to approximately 780,000 years ago. The oldest proto-human bones discovered in England date from 500,000 years ago, Modern humans are known to have inhabited the area during the Upper Paleolithic period, though permanent settlements were only established within the last 6,000 years
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Adam Boulton
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Thomas Adam Babbington Boulton is the Editor-at-large of Sky News, and the current presenter of All Out Politics. He also the political editor of Sky News. He is based at Sky News Westminster studios in Central London and he was previously the political editor of TV-am, an ITV early-morning broadcasting franchise holder. Boulton is also Sky Newss Editor at Large and he held the post of Skys Political Editor since being asked to establish its politics team for the launch of the channel in 1989. He is the presenter of Sky News Sunday Live with Adam Boulton. He then studied at Christ Church, Oxford and Johns Hopkins University where he gained degrees in English, in 2013 Boulton received an Honorary Doctorate of Business from Plymouth University. Before joining Sky News, Boulton worked as a journalist in the parliamentary lobby and he was then Political Editor for TV-am, where his colleague was Kay Burley who later joined Sky News. From 2011, Boulton has presented Boulton & Co from 1pm to 2pm Monday to Friday on the channel, as well as having a regular weekday show of his own, he also frequently appears during the week to report on breaking political stories. On 15 June 2008 he became the first British television reporter to conduct a joint interview of US President George W. Bush and his wife Laura. Boulton was based in Washington, D. C. from January 2009, Boulton shouted at Campbell, Dont tell me what I think. At the time both Labour and the Conservatives were trying to broker a deal with the Liberal Democrats aimed at forming a coalition government, a similar disagreement occurred later on that evening in an exchange with Ben Bradshaw. The media regulator Ofcom received several hundred complaints about the Campbell incident from viewers and he was also accused of bias for the way he questioned Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, it was claimed in contravention of the pre-established rules, during the Leaders debate hosted by Sky News. Ofcom rejected the complaints On 20 January 2011 Boulton once again interviewed Alastair Campbell on Sky News, both apologised about the incident and shook hands at the end of the interview. Boulton won the Royal Television Societys supreme Judges Award and was elected the 2007 Chairman of the Parliamentary Lobby and he has written for newspapers and magazines including The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Spectator, New Statesman and Independent. He has been a guest of programmes such as Newsnight, Bremner, Bird and Fortune and he has interviewed every British Prime Minister from David Cameron back to Sir Alec Douglas-Home, international stars and influential figures. Boulton divorced his first wife Kerena Ann Boulton after his affair with Tony Blairs spin doctor Anji Hunter became front page news in 2002. Both have children from their previous marriages
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Tom Hardy
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Edward Thomas Tom Hardy is an English actor and producer. His motion picture debut was in Ridley Scotts 2001 action film Black Hawk Down and he portrayed Bane in the superhero film The Dark Knight Rises, Mad Max Rockatansky in the post-apocalyptic film Mad Max, Fury Road, and both of the Kray twins in the crime thriller Legend. He created, co-produced and took the lead in the historical fiction series Taboo on BBC One. Hardy has performed on both British and American stages and he starred in the 2007 production of The Man of Mode and received positive reviews for his role in the 2010 Philip Seymour Hoffman-directed play The Long Red Road. Hardy was born in Hammersmith, London, the child of Anne, an artist and painter of Irish descent, and Edward Chips Hardy. He was raised in East Sheen, London and he studied at Tower House School, Reeds School, and Duff Miller Sixth Form College. To further his ambition, Hardy later studied at Richmond Drama School. In 1998, Hardy won The Big Breakfasts Find Me a Supermodel competition at age 21, Hardy joined Drama Centre London in September 1998, and was taken out early after winning the part of US Army Private John Janovec in the award-winning HBO-BBC miniseries Band of Brothers. He made his film debut in Ridley Scotts 2001 war thriller Black Hawk Down. In 2003, Hardy appeared in the film dot the i, and then travelled to North Africa for Simon, An English Legionnaire, a story of the French Foreign Legion. In the same year, he gained some international exposure as the Reman Praetor Shinzon. He then returned to England to feature in the 2003 film LD50 Lethal Dose, Hardy appeared in the 2005 BBC miniseries The Virgin Queen as Robert Dudley, a childhood friend of Elizabeth I. The miniseries portrays them as having a platonic, though highly romantic, Hardy featured in the BBC Four adaptation of the 1960s sci-fi series A for Andromeda. In 2007, he appeared in BBC Twos drama based on a story, Stuart. He played the role of Stuart Shorter, a homeless man who had been subjected to years of abuse and whose death was possibly a suicide. In February 2008, he played a drug-addicted rapist in the British horror-thriller WΔZ, in September 2008, he appeared in Guy Ritchies London gangster film, RocknRolla, Hardy played the role of gay gangster Handsome Bob. Though a sequel to RocknRolla, titled The Real RocknRolla, has been rumoured to be in production, in which Hardy will reprise the role of Handsome Bob, filming has yet to commence on the project. In early 2009, Hardy starred in the film Bronson, about the real-life English prisoner Charles Bronson, for the film, he put on three stone
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Rory Kinnear
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Rory Kinnear is an English actor and playwright who has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre. He is known for playing Bill Tanner in the James Bond films Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, and Spectre and he is the youngest actor to play the role of Bill Tanner. He also won a Laurence Olivier Award for portraying Fopling Flutter in a 2008 version of The Man of Mode, in 2014, he won the Olivier Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Shakespeares villain Iago in the National Theatre production of Othello. Kinnear was born in London, England, the son of the actor Roy Kinnear and he has two sisters, Kirsty and Karina. Through his father, a well-known British comedy actor, he is the grandson of the rugby union and rugby league player Roy Kinnear. Educated at Tower House School and St Pauls School, London, he read English at Balliol College, Oxford, Kinnears performances in Phyllida Lloyds production of Mary Stuart and Trevor Nunns Hamlet, in which he played Laertes, met with acclaim. He also achieved recognition as the outrageous Sir Fopling Flutter in The Man of Mode at the National Theatre, winning a Laurence Olivier Award, in 2010, he played Angelo in Measure for Measure at the Almeida Theatre. Later in 2010 he played the role in Hamlet at the National Theatre. The two portrayals won him the best actor award in the Evening Standard drama awards for 2010, Kinnear appeared in The Last of the Haussmans by Stephen Beresford at the Royal National Theatre during the summer of 2012. The production was broadcast to cinemas around the world on 11 October 2012 through the National Theatre Live programme and he starred as Iago opposite Adrian Lester in the title role of Othello in 2013 at the National Theatre throughout the summer of 2013. Both actors won the Best Actor award in the Evening Standard Theatre Awards for their roles, the award is given to only one actor. From September 2013 the Bush Theatre in London staged Kinnears debut play The Herd, the play ran at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago beginning 2 April 2015. For The Threepenny Opera at the Olivier Theatre in May 2016 Kinnear found his dormant singing voice for the role of Macheath. In February 2017 he made his debut with The Winters Tale. He currently portrays Bill Tanner in the Daniel Craig era James Bond film series taking over from Michael Kitchen. He is the person to play the character. He has appeared in Quantum of Solace, Skyfall and Spectre, as well as the films, Kinnear also lends his voice and likeness to the Bond video games, GoldenEye 007, James Bond 007, Blood Stone and 007 Legends. In 2014, he played the character, Detective Nock, in the The Imitation Game based loosely on the biography Alan Turing
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Mark Lester
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Lester was born in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire in southern England, to actress Rita Keene Lester and actor and producer Michael Lester. His father was Jewish and his mother Anglican, Lester initially had supporting roles in several British television series, including The Human Jungle and Danger Man. In 1964, at the age of six, Lester was cast in Robert Dhérys film Allez France and he played a small part as the second schoolboy in Fahrenheit 451. In 1967, at the age of eight, Lester was cast in the role in the film version of Lionel Barts musical Oliver. The multiple Academy Award-winning adaptation of Charles Dickens novel co-starred Jack Wild, Ron Moody, Harry Secombe, Shani Wallis, since Lester could not sing, all of his singing in the movie was dubbed by Kathe Green, daughter of the films music arranger Johnny Green. Lester became good friends with Wild during production of the film and their friendship continued after production, when Wild was nominated for an Academy Award for the film, they were flown together to the United States for the ceremony. These two child actors later reunited for Melody, which depicted British schoolchildren in love, tracy Hyde played the role of Melody in the film, which used music from the Bee Gees and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. After this period, his roles in the UK would begin to wane as he found good roles harder to come by. He extended his range with roles in a series of films in Italy including Redneck with Telly Savalas, the final film of his Italian-based career was in the costume drama La Prima volta sullerba, which was nominated for the Golden Bear prize at the 25th Berlin International Film Festival. Lester wrapped up his British film career with the role in the all-star film Crossed Swords a. k. a. The Prince and the Pauper, starring Raquel Welch, Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, scott, and Oliver Reed, who had played Bill Sikes in Oliver. After the poor reception of Crossed Swords Lester gave up acting at the age of 19 and he took his A Levels at the age of 28 and became an osteopath, studying at the British School of Osteopathy. In 1993, Lester opened the Carlton Clinic, a clinic in Cheltenham. Lester has four children with his first wife, whom he married in January 1993, in 2006 married Lisa, a psychiatric nurse. He is a patron of the theatre charity The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain, Lester was a close friend of Michael Jackson and is godfather to Jacksons three children. Lester claimed to have been a donor for Jackson in 1996. Lester returned to acting in the 2015 film 1066, starring as King Harold II, the film also contained the acting debut of his son Felix. The Moving Picture Boy, An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995, norwich, Michael Russell,1996, pp. 323–324
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Robert Pattinson
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Robert Douglas Thomas Pattinson is an English actor, producer, model, and musician. Pattinson started his career by playing Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Twilight brought Pattinson worldwide fame, and established him among the highest paid, in 2009, he portrayed Salvador Dalí in Little Ashes. That same year, a film, Robsessed, about the actors fame. He appeared as a young man in Remember Me and also starred in a romantic drama. His performance as a tough, cold-hearted and calculating billionaire in David Cronenbergs Cosmopolis, Pattinson started his career as a model at the age of 12. In 2013 Dior Homme signed him as the face of their Fragrances, in 2016, he also became the first brand ambassador of their Menswear collection. Pattinson composes and plays his own music and he has sang songs for Twilight film series and the 2008 independent comedy-drama film How to Be. He became ambassador of the latter in 2015 to help raise awareness of it. He is also a member of International Medical Corps and has promoted and shared details about cancer through PSAs to raise awareness about the disease and his father, Richard, imported vintage cars from the United States, and his mother, Clare, worked for a modelling agency. Pattinson has two sisters, Victoria and singer Elizabeth Lizzy Pattinson. Growing up in Barnes, London, he attended Tower House School until he was 12 and he became involved in amateur theatre at the Barnes Theatre Company. He auditioned and was cast in a role in Guys. He next auditioned for Thornton Wilders Our Town, and was cast as George Gibbs and he also appeared in Anything Goes and Macbeth. He caught the attention of an agent in a production of Tess of the dUrbervilles. In May 2005, he was scheduled to appear in the UK premiere of The Woman Before at the Royal Court Theatre, later that year he played Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. For this role he was named that years British Star of Tomorrow by The Times and had more than once been hailed as the next Jude Law. In 2006, Pattinson appeared in The Haunted Airman a psychological thriller, aired on BBC Four on 31 October, the Stage praised his performance by saying that played the airman of the title with a perfect combination of youthful terror and world weary cynicism
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Jack Whitehall
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Jack Peter Benedict Whitehall is an English comedian, television presenter and actor. He is best known for his stand up comedy and for starring as JP in the TV series Fresh Meat, since 2012, he has been a regular panellist on the game show A League of Their Own. He also hosts Backchat with his father, Michael and his father was an agent for Judi Dench, Colin Firth and Richard Griffiths, and wrote the memoir Shark-Infested Waters. Whitehall has a sister, Molly Louisa, and a brother and he had two godfathers—Nigel Havers and the late Richard Griffiths, both actors. He attended Tower House School in East Sheen, west London and he has made jokes about this, often mentioning that he resented Pattinsons taking all the best acting roles in the school plays. Whitehall has also mentioned in an interview how he auditioned for the role of Harry Potter after the team visited his school. He went on to attend the Dragon School in Oxford and then Marlborough College, Whitehall took a gap year where he decided to pursue a career in stand-up comedy. He attended the University of Manchester for two terms only, to study History of Art and he has stated that his comedy hero is Jack Dee, having briefly met him as a teenager. In 1997 Whitehall then aged nine appeared in the series Noahs Ark, in June 2008, Whitehall presented the first week of Big Brothers Big Mouth on E4, returning in August to host the twelfth week. In September and November, Whitehall made his first and second of many appearances on Channel 4s 8 Out of 10 Cats. In January 2009, he hosted Celebrity Big Brothers Big Mouth, during which he appeared on The Sunday Night Project, in June 2009 Whitehall co-hosted the satirical TNT Show with Holly Walsh on Channel 4. In August, he appeared on Charlie Brookers Channel 4 panel show You Have Been Watching and he made his first of many appearances on BBC Two satirical panel show Mock the Week, and in October, he guest-presented an episode of Never Mind the Buzzcocks. In January 2010, Whitehall made his appearance in 8 Out of 10 Cats, followed in February by his second appearance on Mock the Week. In April, he featured on Channel 4s Comedy Gala, a show held in aid of Great Ormond Street Childrens Hospital. In April, he appeared on James Cordens sport show A League of Their Own, and on 11 June made his fifth appearance on 8 Out of 10 Cats, followed in June by his third appearance on Mock the Week. In June and July 2010, Whitehall was a performer on the first series of Channel 4s Stand Up for the Week alongside Andi Osho, Kevin Bridges, Rich Hall. In September he made his appearance on 8 Out of 10 Cats. In October, he appeared on a episode of Argumental
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Louis Theroux
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Louis Sebastian Theroux is a documentary filmmaker and broadcaster who holds dual British and American citizenship. Theroux is best known for his series, including Louis Therouxs Weird Weekends, When Louis Met. His career started in journalism and bears influences of notable writers in his family, such as his father Paul Theroux and he works with the BBC producing his documentaries and television series. He has received two British Academy Television Awards and a Royal Television Society Television Award for his work, Theroux was born in Singapore, the son of American travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux and his English then-wife, Anne Castle. His paternal grandmother, Anne, was Italian American, and his paternal grandfather and he holds dual British and American citizenship. His older brother, Marcel, is a writer and television presenter, while his cousin, Justin, is an actor and he is the nephew of novelist Alexander Theroux and writer Peter Theroux. Theroux moved with his family to England at the age of one and he was educated at Westminster School, a public school within the precincts of Westminster Abbey. While there he became friends with comedians Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish, and he also performed in a number of school theatre productions including Bugsy Malone as Looney Bergonzi, Ritual for Dolls as the Army Officer, and The Splendour Falls as the Minstrel. After Westminster, Theroux read Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford from 1988 to 1991, Therouxs first employment as a journalist was in the United States with Metro Silicon Valley, an alternative free weekly newspaper in San Jose, California. In 1992, he was hired as a writer for Spy magazine, when TV Nation ended, Theroux was signed to a development deal by the BBC, through which he developed Louis Therouxs Weird Weekends. He has guest-written for a number of publications including Hip Hop Connection, often, his documentary method subtly exposed the contradictions or farcical elements of some seriously held beliefs. Theroux describes the aim of the series as, Setting out to discover the genuinely odd in the most ordinary setting, the show is laughing at me, adrift in their world, as much as at them. I dont have to play up that stuff, im not a matinee idol disguised as a nerd. Despite requests for a complete DVD set of the Weird Weekends series, in the series When Louis Met. Theroux accompanied a different British celebrity in each programme in their daily lives and his episode about British entertainer Jimmy Savile, When Louis Met Jimmy, was voted one of the top documentaries of all time in a 2005 survey by Britains Channel 4. Some years after the episode was filmed, NSPCC described Savile as one of the most prolific sex offenders in Great Britain and this follow-up documentary, with the title Savile, aired on BBC Two on Sunday 2nd October 2016 and lasted 1 hour,15 minutes. In When Louis Met the Hamiltons, the Tory MP Neil Hamilton and his wife Christine were arrested during the course of filming, due to false allegations of indecent assault. In When Louis Met Max Clifford, Max Clifford tried to set up Theroux, after this series concluded, a retrospective called Life with Louis was released
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Good Schools Guide
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The Good Schools Guide is a guide to British schools. The guide is compiled by a team of editors, which according to the official website comprises some 50 editors, writers, researchers and contributors, mostly parents, since the first edition in 1986, the Guide has been republished 20 times. The chief editor is Ralph Lucas, an offshoot is the Good Schools Guide Education Consultants - a service for finding schools and offering educational or other advice to parents on a consultancy basis. The consultants are The Guide writers and other experts, the Times Educational Supplement stated that the Guide is. untroubled by the sensibilities of schools and. Cavalier in the face of squawks from those it has offended, the Daily Telegraph reviewed the guide in the following terms, Unique among the many guides available, it sets out to give frank answers to the questions every parent asks. Similarly, the Financial Times called the Guide One of the best aids for parents. informative, the FT has also described the Guide as one of Britains leading guides to schools. The GSGI is aimed at British parents who are living abroad, the GSGI is also mostly written and edited by expatriates. The GSG also publishes Uni in the USA, a guide to universities abroad written by, official website Good Schools Guide International official website Uni in the USA official website Good Schools Guide Advice Service official website
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Grey Court School
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Grey Court School is a mixed-sex High School Academy in London, England. It is twinned with Alexander-von-Humboldt-Gymnasium in Konstanz, Germany, in September 2014, a new Sixth Form Centre opened for Grey Courts founding sixth form students. The school occupies a large acreage in Ham, with playing fields, the schools current head teacher is Maggie Bailey. The school was opened in 1956 to provide education for the children of the newly constructed Estate, the school was built in the grounds of the Georgian Grey Court House from which it took its name. The house itself was renamed Newman House after Cardinal Newman, who lived there as a child in the early 19th century, andrew Gilligan, journalist and Londons Cycling Commissioner Patrick Bossert Ruby Bentall Morgan Nicholls Adam Bloom Ara Bedrossian Audio Bullys Katie Walker
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Orleans Park School
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Orleans Park School is a coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in Twickenham area of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England. It is situated 10 miles south-west of central London, the school is situated in part of the former grounds of nearby Orleans House. Covering 16 acres, it opened on the site in 1973. Orleans Park teaches pupils in years 7–11, with 8 tutor groups in school year. Since 2014 there has been a Sixth Form, with 6 tutor groups in each of the two years, the school gained the status of a Mathematics and Computing College in September 2003, then also became a Language College in September 2008. The school converted to academy status on 1 September 2012, the uniform consists of a maroon sweatshirt, a white polo shirt and black trousers, both the polo shirt and the sweatshirt display the schools new logo, interlocked letters O and P. The new uniform is gray/skirt trousers with a maroon v neck sweater with a gold band around the v. There is also the Orleans park writing and logo in gold, under this is a white shirt with a normal collar
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Richmond Park Academy
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Richmond Park Academy is an academy status secondary school in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It is part of the Academies Enterprise Trust Academy chain, Richmond Park Academy was formed in 2010 when academy status was granted to the predecessor Shene School. The academy is led by Paul Mundy-Castle, and is managed by the Academies Enterprise Trust, in 2011 the academy secured almost £10 million of government funding for building improvements. Renovation and new building work was finished in 2015, with an opening by Dame Jacqueline Wilson. Richmond Park Academy is the most recent in a succession of schools that have occupied the location on Park Avenue and Hertford Avenue, in the most populous areas of Surrey, parents were for the most part obliged to be content to give their children an Elementary education. Richmond County was to be one of a series of new Technical Buildings erected or being erected by the County Council in the seven towns of the county. The school was opened on 2 July 1895 on land in Kew Road, the buildings occupied a prominent site on the Kew Road at the corner of Selwyn Avenue. This building housed both the Technical Institute and secondary school, pupils residing in Surrey paid £6 per year, whilst those from outside the county paid £10. The school began with a headmaster and five assistant masters, with visiting staff for the teaching of Art, Singing, French, originally there were 50 boys between 11 and 16 and by 1901, when the new south wing was added, numbers had increased. An extension comprising a hall, four classrooms a gymnasium/drill hall. The first headmaster, A E Buckhurst, was succeeded in 1912 by T W Beasley who continued in office until the amalgamation with East Sheen County School for Boys in 1939. When the school merged with East Sheen County School for Boys in 1939 the school moved out of the Kew Road premises leaving the Technical Institute as sole occupants of the Kew Road site. The Technical Institute continued up to the Second World War when it was put on a basis and used as an A. R. P. It was revived as the Technical Institute and School of Art for Richmond and Barnes in 1947, East Sheen County School for Boys opened on 18 January 1927 on Hertford Avenue. The first headmaster was Mr H. H. Shephard, then aged 33, ninety pupils gained entry via the Common Entrance Examination and fifteen boys were transferred from Richmond County Boys School. Provision was made for 20 county scholarship places and by 1928 the intake had risen to 210 boys, Shepherd established use of the House system. All boys were members of one of four houses, each house name derived from the names of local roads, the houses remained in use until the closure of the school in the 1970s. In 1930 an area of the Hertford Avenue site was fenced off to build the school which opened in 1931
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German School London
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The German School London is a school based at the Grade II* listed building Douglas House in Petersham in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It includes a kindergarten, pre-school, elementary school, middle school, the German School London has established a bilingual system so that students have the choice between two different qualifications, the Abitur and the International Baccalaureate. The Federal Republic of Germany bought Douglas House and grounds in 1969, the house became the reception and school offices. The school opened in September 1971, additional school buildings, designed by the German firm Kersten Mertinoff & Struhk, were erected in the grounds between 1972 and 1983. The executive architects were W H Marmorek and Clifford Culpin & Partners, the school opened to primarily serve children of diplomatic staff from the embassies of German-speaking countries, while some expatriate children were enrolled. The School Associations Board, an group that operates the school, determines the school’s financial, economic and legal business, as well as budgeting. The school largely follows the curriculum of Baden-Württemberg, English it taught from the first year and the aim is for students to be fully bilingual to be able to attend both German and English universities on graduation. Since July 2013 the school has been exempt from the British EYFS learning, the curriculum in the elementary school consists of German, English, mathematics, social studies & sciences, music, arts, religion and physical education. In middle and upper school students study 10 to 13 subjects – German, English, French or Latin, mathematics, physics, chemistry, music, arts, religion or ethics, history, geography, students can choose Spanish as an additional language. The number and variety of subjects varies according to the students grade, the school offers a broad and differentiated education with bilingual units for different talents and prepares students for university life. The school has offered the International Baccalaureate since 2010, it is taught in English, students in Years 11 and 12 can, if they wish, study for both the International Baccalaureate and the Abitur. In 2000, about 36 of the teachers were locally hired, the school provides networking opportunities for adults from the German community. Much of the social activities and sporting clubs for Germans are organised around the school. Teams from the school have taken part in sporting events in soccer, basketball, volleyball, badminton. The school also takes part in art such as the annual exhibition of the Royal College of Art. There are also programmes for students in Years 10,11 and 12, the school has its own charity group, DSLaktiv – Schüler für Schüler, founded in 2010. Every year students in the group choose a different charity to support and organise activities, as well as teaching the German curriculum the school promotes German culture. Every school year there are readings by authors and poets and performances by musicians, the school has Osterbrunnen and Oktoberfest celebrations, as well as Weihnachtsmarkt, a Christmas fair
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Hampton Court House
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Hampton Court House is an 18th-century building on the edge of Bushy Park in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, built the house in 1757, Hampton Court House houses a co-educational independent school and also hosts events such as weddings and the filming of movies. Hampton Court House School opened its doors in September 2001 after extensive refurbishments, the Sixth Form, led by former Westminster School headmaster Tristram Jones-Parry, opened in September 2015. It was the first school in the UK to start lessons in the afternoon, the Grade II* listed building fronts Hampton Court Green and backs on to Bushy Park. It was built around 1757 by George Montagu Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, for his mistress Mrs Anna Maria Donaldson, and was designed by architect Thomas Wright. In 1771, after the death of the Earl, it was let to the Earl of Suffolk, then to the 4th Earl of Sandwich, Charles Bingham, Admiral Lord Keith, and the 3rd Earl of Kelly. In 1883, Thomas Twining of the Twinings family of tea, in 1971, the Teddington Theatre Club converted the picture gallery into a theatre
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Hampton School
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Hampton School is an independent boys day school in Hampton, Greater London, England. Although Hampton School was founded in 1557, there was provision in the will that the school would continue as long as the vicar, churchwardens. If not, then the properties would revert to his heirs and it seems that the school did not survive beyond 1568, or possibly earlier, and the properties reverted to the heirs. Subsequently, however, the school re-opened in 1612 and this was as a result of a Commission established to enquire into the fate of Tudor charities that had disappeared for various reasons. The learned counsell on bothe sides reached deadlock at the Commissioners, however, in the spirit of compromise and through the generosity of the then legal owner of the properties, Nicholas Pigeon, the school was re-endowed. The early school was on the site of St Marys Church by the River Thames and it moved to a site on Upper Sunbury Road in 1880. The new school buildings cost £8,000 and were built in the Elizabethan Tudor style to accommodate 125 day boys and 25 boarders, the school moved to its present site on Hanworth Road in 1939. The new 28 acre site allowed for expansion and the potential to provide for 600-650 boys, the foundation stone was laid on 5 July 1938 and a year later the school was opened. It is next to The Lady Eleanor Holles School for girls, with which it co-operates in a number of activities and shares several classes, clubs, facilities. Headmaster Barry Martin retired in July 2013 after 16 years of service and he was succeeded by Kevin Knibbs. Founders Day is celebrated by the school towards the end of academic year. The occasion is marked by a procession of boys walking from the school to St. Marys Church, through the Form Charity programme the whole school community helps raise money and awareness for good causes locally, nationally, and internationally. In 2012/13, over £25,000 was raised by Form Charity, a Level Results for 2012-2013, 31% of the mainstream grades were A*s,74. 23% were at A*-A and 94. 6% were at A*-B. Thirty boys sat the Pre-U Exam in Physics,18 of whom were graded D2, the equivalent of an A*, nearly all leavers secured places at an elite university and thirty one Oxbridge offers were confirmed. The School’s results are significantly above the figures and almost all Fifth Formers stay on in the Sixth Form. These are results for GCSE in 2012-13,89. 64% of the grades were A*s and As, the national figure for A* grades for boys in 2013 was 5. 3%. One boy achieved 11 A* grades, twenty achieved 10 and 14 achieved 9, A* grades accounted for over 57% of all grades awarded. There was a 99. 89% A*-C grade pass rate, in Mathematics, Geography, Physics and Biology boys follow the more rigorous IGCSE courses
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Kew College
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Kew College is a non-denominational mixed preparatory school in Kew in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Despite its name, Kew College is solely a school for children aged 3 to 11. Kew College began in 1927 as a school located in a room above a shop in Kew. As the number of pupils grew, the moved to a large Victorian house in Cumberland Road. In 1953 the school expanded into a house in Cumberland Road. It became a charitable trust in 1983, Kew College averages 292 pupils between the ages of 3 and 11
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Lady Eleanor Holles School
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The Lady Eleanor Holles School is an independent day school for girls in Hampton, London. It is a member of the Girls Schools Association, first located in St Giles, in the Cripplegate Ward of the City of London, its original site is marked by a plaque on one of the Barbican walkways. The school later occupied other premises in the City until 1878, the building is now home to the London College of Fashion. The current premises in Hampton were purpose built, and were opened on 7 December 1937 by Princess Alice, the building was designed in the shape of an E. The school was thought to have founded in 1711, but records show it functioning in 1710. The school recently celebrated its 300th anniversary with a service at St Pauls Cathedral, according to the Good Schools Guide, Lady Eleanor Holles School is Deservedly one of the top girls schools in the country. It also states that the school is Highly sought-after for its delivery, celebration of female success, top of the range facilities. The school is known for success in rowing, tennis and lacrosse, there are also sports teams in trampolining, lacrosse, netball, tennis, gymnastics, athletics, rounders, swimming, rowing and fencing. Clubs within the school include Amnesty International, Chess Club, Debating Society, Christian Union, Choirs, Orchestral, in 2010 the Holles Singers, a choir at the school, won the BBC Youth Choir of the Year. This school has achieved many high qualities, and can be known for some across the globe and they are also rivals to st pauls girls school in sport. Heather Hanbury - appointed September 2014 Gillian Low 2004-2014, gauri Kumar, Junior Winner of the 2016 Commonwealth Essay. Official website Profile at the Good Schools Guide Schools Guide 2011 - The Lady Eleanor Holles School, the Lady Eleanor Holles School DVD
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Royal Ballet School
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The Royal Ballet School is one of the worlds greatest centres of classical ballet training. The Schools aim is to train and educate outstanding classical ballet dancers for The Royal Ballet, the school is based over two sites, White Lodge, Richmond Park and Covent Garden based in purpose-built studios on Floral Street, adjacent to the Royal Opera House. Graduates of the school have also achieved employment in musical theatre, contemporary and jazz dance, television, in 1926, the Irish-born dancer Ninette de Valois founded the Academy of Choreographic Art, a dance school for girls and the predecessor of todays Royal Ballet School. Her intention was to form a repertory company and school, leading her to collaborate with the Inglisch theatrical producer. Baylis owned the Old Vic theatre and acquired Sadlers Wells theatre in 1925, at the same time, the Vic-Wells Ballet Company was formed using students of the school and other notable dancers of the era. Both the school and the company developed quickly and after ballet performances ceased at the Old Vic. Following rapid expansion, in 1955 the school secured the premises at White Lodge in Richmond Park and this was established at the time as the Royal Ballet Lower School, a residential boarding school for children aged 11–16, combining general education and vocational ballet training. The Royal Ballet School Upper School was established at the existing premises in Barons Court with students studying ballet on a full-time basis between the ages of 16–19. In October 1956, a Royal Charter was granted officially linking the company and school and they became The Royal Ballet School. A second smaller company still performed at Sadlers Wells and toured around the UK, a bridge was constructed between the school and the Opera House, linking the school with the theatre and The Royal Ballet Companys own studios. The designer of the received an architectural award and it is known as the Bridge of Aspiration. The Royal Ballet Schools younger students moved to White Lodge, Richmond Park in Richmond, the Georgian building is a former royal residence and hunting lodge built during the reign of King George II. It is the Schools permanent premises and there has been redevelopment of the site to provide state of the art dance and academic facilities. Children attend the school between the ages of 11-16 and entry to the school is by audition only, the school receives over twenty thousand applications every year and holds auditions in major UK cities. Having an international reputation, the school receives applications from other countries. As a boarding school, the majority of live on site. Hi In dance, students study ballet, character dance, contemporary, gymnastics, Irish, Morris. Later in their training, students study ballet repertoire, solos and pas de deux, the school offers academic study at the level of a typical secondary school, both at Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4, with all students sitting GCSE examinations
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St Paul's School, London
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St Pauls School is a selective independent school for boys aged 13–18, founded in 1509 by John Colet and located on a 43-acre site by the River Thames, in Barnes, London. It is one of the original nine British Clarendon Schools public schools, however, The School successfully argued that the school should be omitted from the Public Schools Act 1868. Since 1881, St Pauls has had its own school, St Pauls Juniors. The school is currently being rebuilt and expanded, the work was scheduled to be completed in phases over the next thirty years. St Pauls School originally takes its name from St Pauls Cathedral in London, a cathedral school had existed since around 1103. By the 16th century however, it had declined, and in 1509 and he described himself in the statutes of the school as desyring nothing more thanne Educacion and bringing upp chyldren in good Maners and litterature. Originally, the school provided education for 153 children of all nacions and countries indifferently, primarily in literature and etiquette. The scholars were not required to make any payment, although they were required to be literate and had to pay for their own wax candles, Colet was an outspoken critic of the powerful and worldly Church of his day, a friend of Erasmus and Sir Thomas More. Erasmus wrote textbooks for the school and St Pauls was the first English school to teach Greek, Colet distrusted the Church as a managing body for his school, declaring that he found the least corruption in married laymen. For this reason, Colet assigned the management of the School and its revenues to the Mercers Company, the Mercers Company still forms the major part of the Schools governing body, and it continues to administer Colets trust. One of St Pauls early headmasters was Richard Mulcaster, famous for writing two influential treatises on education and his description in Positions of footeball as a refereed team sport is the earliest reference to organised modern football. For this description and his enthusiasm for the sport he is considered the father of modern football, between 1861 and 1864, the Clarendon Commission investigated the public school system in England and its report formed the basis of the Public Schools Act 1868. St Pauls was one of nine schools considered by the Clarendon Commission. According to Charles Dickens, Jr. writing in 1879 St Paul’s School, St Paul’s-churchyard — There are 153 scholars on the foundation, vacancies are filled up at the commencement of each term according to the results of a competitive examination. Candidates must be between 12 and 14 years of age, capitation scholars pay £20 a year. The governors of this school are appointed by the Mercers Company and the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, the school exhibitions are determined as to number and value by the governors from time to time, and the school prizes are of considerable importance. The following are the university exhibitions, an exhibition, founded by Mr Stock in 1780 at Corpus Christi, of the yearly value of £30, given to a scholar recommended by the high master. Four exhibitions, in the college, value £10 a year each, founded by Mr George Sykes in 1766, consolidated now in one exhibition
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The Swedish School in London
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The Swedish School in London is an independent school and boarding school in England. The sixth form of the school has two programmes, a programme, and a social science programme focusing on civics or economics. The school was founded in 1907 in Harcourt Street, central London, the lower school moved to Barnes in 1976 and the gymnasium was previously within accommodation rented from a sixth form college in Twickenham. Stockholm International School - Anglo-American school in Stockholm The Swedish School in London website Ofsted inspection report
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Richmond upon Thames College
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Richmond upon Thames College is a College of General Further and Higher Education located on a single site in Twickenham. It provides education and training to 16- to 18-year-olds and adults from across Richmond, London, Surrey, the college is currently involved in a redevelopment project of its existing 22-acre estate. The first phase of this project should be completed in 2017, the College was formed in 1977 by a merger of the sixth form colleges from Shene and Thames Valley with the former Twickenham College of Technology on its site. The college currently has around 3,000 full-time students, parking is available on the campus for both staff and students and there are a number of food outlets. The college is one of the largest suppliers of students to university, the college is situated in Twickenham, Greater London less than a kilometre from the English national rugby stadium. The nearest rail link is Twickenham Station and the nearest underground connections are Richmond and it is also served by local bus routes notably the 281 between Tolworth and Twickenham and the 267 between Fulwell and Hammersmith
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Alcott House
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Alcott House in Ham, Surrey, was the home of a utopian spiritual community and progressive school which lasted from 1838 to 1848. Supporters of Alcott House, or the Concordium, were a key group involved in the formation of the Vegetarian Society in 1847. Together with his followers, who included Charles Lane – and the help of sponsors, Sophia. The Ham Common Concordium, as it came to be known, consisted of a working mixed cooperative community, the men grew their hair and beards long and wore loose fitting clothes, while the women defied convention by not wearing the traditional, restrictive corset. Alcott House school was open to children from both inside and outside the community – the latter usually from radical parents who sympathised with its progressive educational stance. The curriculum emphasised moral education and the development of the childs innate spiritual gifts, teaching skills such as gardening. Punishment was frowned upon and education aimed to produce men and women, able to live in a truly cooperative society. In 1848, the community came to an end and the house was purchased by John Minter Morgan to provide an orphanage, in 1856 the foundation stone was laid of a new building on the site, South Lodge, which exists to this day. The new building has been converted to flats and the grounds have developed as Bishops Close. Fruitlands See also The New Age, and Concordium Gazette which was the journal of the Ham Common Concordium, forty Years Recollections, Literary and Political. London, S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, bronson Alcott at Alcott house, England, and Fruitlands, New England. Latham, Jackie E. M. Search for a new Eden, trahair, R. C. S. Utopias and Utopians, an historical dictionary
