"a publishing business; Peason, Molesworth's ""grate frend"" and companion on his frequently imagined interplanetary adventures; Fotherington-Tomas, the school sissy; and Molesworth 2, Nigel's annoying younger brother. The school's traditional local rivals are Porridge Court, who regularly beat them at sporting events. Nigel's spelling is consistently poor, with most words rendered phonetically, a feature found endearing by fans. The phrase ""as any fule kno"", appended to many of Nigel's pronouncements, has achieved fame beyond its author and can sometimes be seen in the mainstream British press (usually in a satirical context; the phrase often appears in ""Private Eye""). It was used"
"Ronald Searle Ronald William Fordham Searle, CBE, RDI (3 March 1920 – 30 December 2011) was an English artist and satirical cartoonist. He is perhaps best remembered as the creator of St Trinian's School and for his collaboration with Geoffrey Willans on the Molesworth series. Searle was born in Cambridge, England, where his father was a Post Office worker who repaired telephone lines. He started drawing at the age of five and left school (Central School – now Parkside School) at the age of 15. He trained at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology (now Anglia Ruskin University) for two"
"Award for Creativity in the Arts in his honor. Ronald Searle Ronald William Fordham Searle, CBE, RDI (3 March 1920 – 30 December 2011) was an English artist and satirical cartoonist. He is perhaps best remembered as the creator of St Trinian's School and for his collaboration with Geoffrey Willans on the Molesworth series. Searle was born in Cambridge, England, where his father was a Post Office worker who repaired telephone lines. He started drawing at the age of five and left school (Central School – now Parkside School) at the age of 15. He trained at Cambridge College of"
"in February. The 33rd Walsall Scout group is based at Aldridge Methodist Church and holds Beavers, Cubs and scouts for boys and girls aged 6–14. They go on annual scout camps and have been to Beaudesert Campsite and Blackwell Adventure. The 49th Walsall Scout Group is the third Scout Group in Aldridge based at St. Thomas's Church in Churchside Way on the estate just off Lazy Hill Road and Greenwood Road, it also caters for boys and girls between the ages of 6 and 18. Actor Richard Sinnott attended Leighswood School, then Aldridge School. He has appeared in Coronation Street,"
"Bayswater and visit the cartoonist Ronald Searle. He went several times but never rang the doorbell. It would be many years later that he would actually meet Ronald Searle. He went to Saint Martin's School of Art (now part of the University of the Arts London) in Holborn, London. He also went to the London College of Printing and East Ham Technical College (became Newham College of Further Education). After briefly working in advertising, a profession he grew to dislike intensely, Scarfe's early caricatures of public figures were published in satirical magazine ""Private Eye"" throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Beginning"
"of the good teaching, care and guidance they receive."" and ""the proportion of students gaining five A* to C grades, including English and Mathematics, at the end of Year 11, is well above the national average"". Source: Student Sam Heygate played for the England Under 16 A rugby union side in season 2007–08. Ex-student Richard Stearman plays professional football for Sheffield United and has represented England up to Under 21 level. Guilsborough Academy Guilsborough Academy is a co-educational academy school in Guilsborough, Northamptonshire, England. The school was founded in September 1958 as Guilsborough Secondary Modern School and was officially opened"
"is Farleigh School, a Catholic prep school. There is one sixth form provision, Andover College, formerly known as Cricklade College. Nigel Spackman was a local football player who began his career for Andover before moving to AFC Bournemouth and Chelsea. From there, he enjoyed a successful career culminating with winning the English league championship with Liverpool, and numerous Scottish league and cup winners medals with Rangers. Since retiring, he has ventured into club management as well as becoming a television football pundit. Like Spackman, Bill Rawlings was another Andoverian who began his career at the club. He went on to"
"of dress worn by the girls was closely modelled on the school uniform of James Allen's Girls' School (JAGS) in Dulwich, which Searle's daughter Kate attended. In the 1950s, films were developed that were based on the cartoon series. These comedies implied that the girls at the school were the daughters of dubious characters, such as gangsters, crooks, and shady bookmakers. The institution is often referred to as a ""female borstal"", as if it were a reform school. During 1941 Searle had gone to the artists' community in the village of Kirkcudbright. Whilst visiting the family Johnston, he made a"
"Trinity Catholic College - Catholic school and college for pupils aged 11-19. Saltersgill Saltersgill is a residential area of Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, located within the Beechwood Ward. The local shops are located along Saltersgill avenue. These include takeaway restaurants, a bakers, a betting shop and convenience stores including a Sainsbury's local. Also located on this road is the local pub The Saltersgill. Between Saltersgill and Easterside the Saltersgill playing fields. These facilities are also used and maintained by the University of Teesside. Prince Bishop School - Secondary school that teaches students with emotional, behavioural and social difficulties. Beverley School"
"Roman Polanski's 2005 remake of ""Oliver Twist"". Liam McAlinden is a footballer for Exeter City F.C. Kingsmead School, Hednesford Kingsmead School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form. Established in 1938, it is located in Hednesford, Staffordshire, England. The head teacher is Maria Mincher. Approximately 1,300 mixed gender pupils are educated here. The school's intake is from 11–18 (Years 7–13), including a sixth form. Since its establishment in 1938, the school has had several name changes. Originally it was known as Littleworth School. In the early days there were separate boys' and girls' schools. During World War II, the"
"St Trinian's School St Trinian's was a British gag cartoon comic strip series, created and drawn by Ronald Searle from 1946 until 1952. The cartoons all centre on a boarding school for girls, where the teachers are sadists and the girls are juvenile delinquents. The series was Searle's most famous work and inspired a popular series of comedy films. Searle published his first St. Trinian's School cartoon in 1941 in the magazine ""Lilliput"". Shortly afterward he entered the military as World War II raged on. He was captured at Singapore and spent the rest of the war as a prisoner"
"pursuits, including fishing, shooting, ice skating, cricket and the family obsession, foxhunting. He began his education at home. In 1873, he attended the Reverend W. Rickmore’s school at Kenilworth. In 1875, he progressed to the Reverend Coley Powles School, Wixenford, Wokingham, Hampshire. In 1877 he began a four-year stay at Harrow School, where he was a member of Vanity House. At Harrow he developed into a distinguished scholar and athlete, becoming a valuable member of the cricket and football eleven. He left Harrow in 1881 and entered Trinity College, Oxford where again he displayed his scholastic and athletic abilities, becoming"
"Seaford, at Heddon Court, Hampstead and then as a boarder at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk. He trained as an artist in London at the Slade School of Fine Art between 1910 and 1911, where he was a contemporary of Paul Nash, Stanley Spencer, Mark Gertler, and Edward Wadsworth. According to Nash, with whom he formed a close friendship, Nicholson spent more time during his year at the Slade playing billiards than painting or drawing, since the abstract formality of the green baize and the constantly changing relationships of the balls were, he later claimed, of more appeal to his aesthetic"
"School, Rokeby Preparatory School, and Holy Cross Preparatory School. He attended Harrow and New College, Oxford. He took a Second in Law (Jurisprudentia) at Oxford in 1889, then trained as a barrister and was called to the bar in 1890. However, he was not keen to begin practising law and instead travelled abroad to look after the family's shipping business. During these travels he met Joseph Conrad, then the first mate of a sailing-ship moored in the harbour of Adelaide, Australia, and the two future novelists became close friends. In 1895 Galsworthy began an affair with Ada Nemesis Pearson Cooper"
"Saltersgill Saltersgill is a residential area of Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, located within the Beechwood Ward. The local shops are located along Saltersgill avenue. These include takeaway restaurants, a bakers, a betting shop and convenience stores including a Sainsbury's local. Also located on this road is the local pub The Saltersgill. Between Saltersgill and Easterside the Saltersgill playing fields. These facilities are also used and maintained by the University of Teesside. Prince Bishop School - Secondary school that teaches students with emotional, behavioural and social difficulties. Beverley School - A specialist technology School for pupils with Autism aged 3-19 years."
"Beesley are from Burnage, actor John Thaw and BAFTA award winning film director Colin O'Toole also lived in the area. Islamic scholar Martin Lings (Shaykh Abu Bakr Siraj al-Din) The district is notable for being the childhood home of Liam and Noel Gallagher, of the British rock band Oasis, who attended St. Bernard's RC Primary School on Burnage Lane and St Mark's RC High School (now The Barlow Roman Catholic High School) on Parrs Wood Road. Lead singer and bassist of 60s and 70s pop band the Fortunes, Eddie Mooney has lived in Burnage for many years. Alumni of Burnage"
"strict Roman Catholic, he attended St Aloysius Boys' School in Somers Town and served at the altar. He then moved to St Aloysius' College in Hornsey Lane, Highgate, London, whose former pupils include actor Peter Sellers. He later moved to North End, Kent, and attended Crayford Secondary School, before leaving with no qualifications at fifteen. He then gained an apprenticeship with Vickers Armstrong as a toolmaker. By the time he was 21, he was a qualified engineering technician. He kept the job for a further year, acquiring a fascination and passion for collecting antique guns, clocks, watches and classic cars."
"Doonesbury comic strip, the character Zonker Harris buys a British peerage which grants him the title ""His Lordship the Viscount St. Austell-in-the-Moor Biggleswade-Brixham"". Biggleswade, as part of Central Bedfordshire, has a three-tier schooling system with lower schools catering for ages between 5 and 9, middle schools from 9 to 13 and Stratton Upper School continuing education up and into Sixth Form. Two of the local schools, Stratton Upper School and Biggleswade Academy, attained Academy status in 2011. In birth order: Biggleswade Biggleswade is a market town and civil parish located on the River Ivel in Bedfordshire, England. It is growing"
"the former Mary Linwood Secondary School. The principal sponsor of this Academy is the Church of England. The Council transferred the site of the former secondary school (Mary Linwood) to the sponsors. Samworth, Leicester's first City Academy, was built on the site of the old Mary Linwood school and completed in September, 2007. The children of author Sue Townsend attended the school during the late 1970s and early 1980s; their experiences influenced her highly successful Adrian Mole books. ""The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole"" was reputedly based on Sue Townsend's son's experiences at the school. Several of the teachers who"
"Salisbury Cathedral School Salisbury Cathedral School is a co-educational independent school located in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. It was founded in 1091 by Saint Osmund at Old Sarum. The school was founded by Saint Osmund, the Bishop of Old Sarum and Earl of Dorset, who was recognised for his good works when he was canonised several hundred years later in 1456. Osmund was born in Normandy and was a first cousin of William the Conqueror, King of England: William's father, Robert the Magnificent, Duke of Normandy, was the brother of Isabella, Countess of Séez, the mother of Osmund. The first notable"
"in nuclear engineering and a teacher, the daughter of a nuclear research chemist. He became fixated by pop music at an early age. He attended the comprehensive, Wilmslow County High School (at the same time as members of the band Doves), then went to Loreto College, Manchester, a Roman Catholic sixth form college between the University of Manchester and Old Trafford. He applied to study Modern History at Keble College, Oxford, but was rejected, and claimed that his membership of left-wing organisations had not won him many favours with such a traditional and conservative college. He spent three years studying"
"Beverley School, Middlesbrough Beverley School is a community special school in Middlesbrough, England. The school supports children with autism and is based in a campus with another school, Hollis Academy (formally Prince Bishop School). Originally opened as a special school for hearing-impaired children back in the mid-1970s, the school began to admit children with autism in the 1980s and is now a regional centre of excellence. Since Easter 2011 Beverley School has shared a campus with Hollis Academy (formerly Prince Bishop School). The Headteacher Nigel Carden retired in 2011 and was replaced by Joanne Smith in 2012, following a year"
"became the protagonist and narrator of four books: ""Down with Skool!"" (1953), ""How to be Topp"" (1954), ""Wizz for Atomms"" (1956) and, after Willans's death, ""Back in the Jug Agane"" (1959). All four were collected in ""The Compleet Molesworth"". Comic misspellings, erratic capitalisation and schoolboy slang are threads running through all the books. According to Ronald Searle in his obituary of Willans in ""The Times"": ""His cunning was more refined than Bunter... Willans was delighted that schoolmasters, far from feeling publicly disrobed, were in fact giving away his books as end of school prizes."" Willans wrote other books as well."
"the Beanstalk"" and Robin Hood in the adaptation of ""The Adventures of Robin Hood"" (1938). Pettyfer was educated at two junior independent schools: The Mall School, a small school in Twickenham, followed by the Lambrook Haileybury school in Winkfield, Berkshire. He subsequently attended two other independent boarding schools: Millfield School in Street, Somerset and Shiplake College near Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire. Before his GCSEs, he left Shiplake College to attend the independent Sylvia Young Theatre School in London. In 2005, after a modelling career, Pettyfer made his professional acting début in the British television production of ""Tom Brown's Schooldays"", playing the"
"for Blackburn Rovers and Reading. Also professional Football Player Aaron Pierre, who plays defender for Wycombe Wanderers as did Ruben Loftus-Cheek, a midfielder who plays for London-based club Chelsea Power metal band DragonForce's keyboardist Vadim Pruzhanov attended Cardinal Wiseman. Young actors James Forde, who plays Liam Butcher in the soap EastEnders, and Joe Prospero, who featured in Finding Neverland, My Dad's the Prime Minister and the Bill, attended the school. Comedian Javone Prince, famous for starring as Jerwayne in PhoneShop, also attended the school. An article in The Independent in November 2014 highlighted the famous alumni produced by Cardinal Wiseman"
"High School (including the old Burnage Grammar School) include Roger Byrne, captain of the Manchester United ""Busby Babes"" and England international who was one of the victims of the 1958 Munich air disaster; Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, noted international architect; Wes Brown, current Kerala Blasters FC and England player; Ian Wilson, guitarist and member of 70s rock band Sad Cafe. Dave Rowbotham, former guitarist of local post-punk groups Durutti Column, The Invisible Girls and The Mothmen, lived there in a flat, where, in November 1991, his dead body was found, after being killed by an axe murderer."
"designated National Trail, which crosses the Yorkshire Wolds and ends at Filey on the Holderness Coast. The site of the town's secondary school, Hessle High School & Sixth Form College, on Heads Lane, is centred on a building donated to the Education Authority by Algernon Henry Barkworth, a survivor of the RMS ""Titanic"" sinking. Hessle Sixth Form College is part of a consortium with secondary schools Wolfreton School (in Willerby) and Cottingham High School (in Cottingham), offering sixth form pupils a chance to attend classes at any of the three schools within the consortium. The entire school was reopened in"
"Academy at the start of the autumn term in September 2010. Knole Academy was formed by a merger of the Wildernesse School and Bradbourne School. 2. http://www.education.gov.uk/ Wildernesse School The Wildernesse School in Sevenoaks, Kent, England was a single sex High School for boys aged eleven to nineteen. It had Specialist School status for Mathematics and Computing. Other than the English motto taken from a letter to Sir Philip Sidney from his father, the school had a Latin motto: Non Nobis Solum (English: Not for ourselves alone). Footballer John Salako is a former pupil, as are actor Jerome Flynn, poet"
"England, one Roman Catholic, and four non-denominational state schools. With the exception of The Grove (1962), Poolbrook Primary School (1977), and Northleigh (1991) that replaced the Cowleigh C of E school destroyed by arson in 1989, all the Malvern primary schools were established between 1836 and 1916, during and shortly after the town's rapid development as a spa. The Chase School in Barnards Green is a secondary school with around 1300 pupils. It is a specialist Technology, Language and Science college under the specialist schools programme, previously designated a Beacon School. Dyson Perrins Church of England Academy in Malvern Link,"
"Northleigh primary school, which is a Church of England (CofE) voluntary aided school. Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, lived in Malvern for a while after being forced out of Ethiopia by the Italian invasion in the late 1930s. During this time he attended services at Holy Trinity Church in Link Top and his granddaughters and daughters of court officials were educated at Clarendon School in North Malvern. The Tank Quarry on North Hill was used as a location in the ""Doctor Who"" serial ""The Krotons"", which was broadcast in four weekly parts from December 28, 1968 to January 18, 1969."
"born in Bilston; several of his works are in the collection of Wolverhampton Art Gallery. John Major, prime minister of the UK from 1990 to 1997, had family living in nearby Walsall, Bilston has many primary schools, and two secondary schools – South Wolverhampton and Bilston Academy and Moseley Park School, which was originally Etheridge Secondary Modern (formerly Fraser Street Schools), and Bilston Boys' Grammar School. Manor Primary School, which used to be a secondary school, is sometimes incorrectly believed to be in Bilston, but is actually in Woodcross which is within the Wolverhampton-governed part of Coseley. Bilston had a"
"boys' school in Colwall, then at Lyttelton Grammar School in Malvern where he sang in Malvern Priory choir and finally Hanley Castle Grammar School where he excelled at sport. He briefly played cricket for the Second XI of Worcestershire County Cricket Club, before deciding to study at Malvern School of Art. His time at Malvern was broken up by two years of National Service, during which time he served as a wireless operator in the Royal Air Force. While in the RAF he attended classes at Cambridge School of Art before returning to complete his studies at Malvern, 1949–50. He"
"from previous principal Michelle Costello, who left in 2017. Prior to this, the Headteacher was William Bancroft, who left in July 2013. Notable pupils who attended the school include the singer John Newman. Settle College Settle College is a secondary school in the village of Giggleswick, North Yorkshire, England. The school is a partner in 'The Three Peaks Family of Schools', a grouping of Secondary Schools, primary schools and middle schools, in North Craven. Settle College links back to Settle Girls' High School, founded in 1907, which became the comprehensive Settle High School in 1959. The current school gained Technology"