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Bellerive FCJ Catholic College
Bellerive FCJ Catholic College is an all-girls secondary school and a coeducational sixth form located on Windermere Terrace in Liverpool. It is a Roman Catholic school, and has academy status. Admissions It is a Catholic girls' school. It is situated at the junction of the two sections of the A5089, on the Trans Pennine Trail. It is a single-sex school, with girls attending between the ages of 11–18 and boys in the Sixth Form. History The school opened in 1844 as a boarding school on Great George's Square, offering instruction in Geography, use of globes, Botany, History, Writing, Arithmetic, French and Italian languages. After 52 years the school was moved to Princes Park in 1887. The values of the Faithful Companions of Jesus (FCJ) charism are central to all that takes place in the school. These values include, Companionship, Dignity, Excellence, Justice, Gentleness and Hope. Direct grant grammar school Like several single-sex catholic secondary schools in Liverpool it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin
Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area around Rome, Italy. Through the expansion of the Roman Republic, it became the dominant language in the Italian Peninsula and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. It has greatly influenced many languages, Latin influence in English, including English, having contributed List of Latin words with English derivatives, many words to the English lexicon, particularly after the Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England, Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons and the Norman Conquest. Latin Root (linguistics), roots appear frequently in the technical vocabulary used by fields such as theology, List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names, the sciences, List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes, medicine, and List of Latin legal terms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notre Dame Catholic College (Liverpool)
Notre Dame Catholic Academy is a Catholic secondary school and sixth form in Everton, Liverpool, England. Founded by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, it was a girls' school for most of its history but became coeducational from September 2012. From June 2024, the school joined St Joseph’s Catholic Multi Academy Trust, becoming Notre Dame Catholic Academy. Admissions The College became coeducational from September 2012, admitting boys into Year 7 for the first time. Boys were already undertaking Sixth Form education at Notre Dame Catholic College. History It was founded in February 1869. The Notre Dame Catholic College was originally the residence of the Sisters of Notre Dame in Liverpool, and began as a pupil-teacher centre with links to local primary schools. The collegiate school did not actually come into existence until 1902, with this merging with the pupil teacher centre in 1908. Direct grant grammar school It was known as Notre Dame Collegiate School at Everton Va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secondary Schools In Liverpool
Secondary may refer to: Science and nature * Secondary emission, of particles ** Secondary electrons, electrons generated as ionization products * The secondary winding, or the electrical or electronic circuit connected to the secondary winding in a transformer * Secondary (chemistry), a term used in organic chemistry to classify various types of compounds * Secondary color, color made from mixing primary colors * Secondary mirror, second mirror element/focusing surface in a reflecting telescope * Secondary craters, often called "secondaries" * Secondary consumer, in ecology * An antiquated name for the Mesozoic in geosciences * Secondary feathers, flight feathers attached to the ulna on the wings of birds Society and culture * Secondary (football), a position in American football and Canadian football * Secondary dominant in music * Secondary education, education which typically takes place after six years of primary education ** Secondary school, the type of school at the sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catholic Secondary Schools In The Archdiocese Of Liverpool
The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions and has played a prominent role in the history and development of Western civilization. O'Collins, p. v (preface). The church consists of 24 ''sui iuris'' (autonomous) churches, including the Latin Church and 23 Eastern Catholic Churches, which comprise almost 3,500 dioceses and eparchies around the world, each overseen by one or more bishops. The pope, who is the bishop of Rome, is the chief pastor of the church. The core beliefs of Catholicism are found in the Nicene Creed. The Catholic Church teaches that it is the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church founded by Jesus Christ in his Great Commission, that its bishops are the successors of Christ's apostles, and that the pope is the successor of Saint Peter, upon whom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upton Hall School FCJ
Upton Hall School FCJ is a Catholic girls' grammar school with academy status located in Merseyside, England. It was founded in 1849 by the Faithful Companions of Jesus (FCJ). Admissions It is one of four Catholic schools in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral. The school is located within the Catholic Diocese of Shrewsbury. It was awarded 'Outstanding' by Ofsted in 2006, 2012 and again in 2022. The school holds Training School status. History It was founded as a girls' convent school by Nuns of the Society of the Faithful Companions of Jesus (FCJ) in 1862. The remains of Marie Madeleine, the founder of the FCJ, were reburied in the school's personal graveyard in 1904 due to anti-clerical tensions in France. Her body was moved to Kent in 1980, and subsequently to Paris in 2012. Alumni * Florence Barry, leader of the Roman Catholic feminist organisation St. Joan’s International Alliance who was awarded the ''Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice'' medal * Berlie Doherty, child ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Direct Grant Grammar Schools
This article lists the 179 direct grant grammar schools that existed in England and Wales between 1945 and 1976. Early departures from the scheme A total of 164 schools were accepted onto the scheme when it opened in 1945. Of these, three schools were no longer on the list in 1965: * Kensington High School closed its senior school in 1948, becoming Kensington Preparatory School. * King Edward VI School, Southampton remained an LEA-maintained grammar school until it became independent in 1979. * Magdalen College School, Brackley remained an LEA-maintained grammar school until it merged with Brackley High School and Brackley Secondary Modern School to form a comprehensive in 1973. Five schools left the scheme between 1968 and 1974: * Trinity School of John Whitgift (Church of England, Boys), Croydon became independent in 1968, but continued to take LEA-funded pupils. * Oakham School (CE, Boys), Rutland became independent in 1970 and co-educational in the following year. * Queen Victo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bellerive School, Ullet Road - Geograph
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Bellerive may refer to: * Bellerive, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, United States * Bellerive, Switzerland, municipality in the district of Avenches in the canton of Vaud * Collonge-Bellerive, Switzerland, a municipality in the canton of Geneva * Bellerive, Tasmania, Australia, a suburb of the City of Clarence, part of the greater Hobart area * Bellerive Studios, films studios located in Zurich, Switzerland See also *Belle Rive (other) Belle Rive may refer to: * Belle Rive, Illinois, United States * Belle Rive, Edmonton, a neighborhood in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada See also * Bellerive (other) * Rive (other) Rive or La Rive may refer to: Places * Rive, Pie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ambassadors From The United Kingdom To Belarus
The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Belarus is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in the Republic of Belarus, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission in Minsk. The official title is ''His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Republic of Belarus''. History Until 1991 Belarus was within the Soviet Union. When Belarus became independent at the end of 1991, the British ambassador to Russia was accredited also to Belarus until May 1993 when an office was opened in Minsk, within the German embassy, and for over a year the British Embassy worked out of a single, cramped room with its locally engaged support staff working off a desk lodged beneath the staircase. In July 1995 new premises were opened in a former geological laboratory, and are now shared between the British and Italian missions. Some staff, such as the Defence Attaché, are still based in Moscow. On 10 October 2020, the United Kingdom temporarily recalled its ambassador from Belarus amidst the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemary Thomas (diplomat)
Rosemary Thomas (February 16, 1901 – April 7, 1961) was an American poet and teacher, known for her book of poems ''Immediate Sun'', which won the Twayne First Book Contest in 1951. Education Thomas graduated from Smith College in 1923. In 1950, she received a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University for an essay on Lawrence Durrell, the British poet and novelist. She taught creative writing at various schools including Spence School and Brearley School in New York, Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and Oxford School in Hartford, Connecticut. Literary career In 1951, Thomas won the Twayne First Book Contest for her only book of poems, ''Immediate Sun''. The book had a foreword written by Archibald MacLeish, who described her poems as having "a common quality, a characteristic idiom, and inflection the reader would recognize again as a man recognizes the inflection of a decisive voice". The book includes a poem about her brother-in-law, Canadian tennis star J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola Hodson
Nicola Hodson (born 17 December 1966) is a British businesswoman, and the chief executive of IBM UK. Early life Her father played rugby league, with his brother Brian, whilst working at a local crisp factory, later playing for Liverpool Stanley. She grew up on Liverpool Road in Widnes, with her sister, later moving to Tuson Drive. She trained with Halton Athletics Club, with her sister. She attended St Michaels RC primary school in Widnes, and a girls RC direct grant grammar school, the Bellerive Convent Grammar School, in Liverpool. In 1988 she gained a BSc in chemistry with Materials Science from the University of Liverpool. She gained a PhD in Laser Surface Engineering in January 1993 from the University of Liverpool. After her marriage, she lived in Meols, and gained an MBA in March 1997 from Lancaster University. Career She worked with BNFL from 1991 to 1998. She worked with Microsoft from 2008. IBM UK In January 2023 she became chief executive of IBM in the UK. Persona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Lancashire (UK Parliament Constituency)
West Lancashire is a County constituencies, county List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies, constituency represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament. Following the resignation of Labour Party (UK), Labour MP Rosie Cooper on 30 November 2022, the seat was won by the party's candidate Ashley Dalton in the 2023 West Lancashire by-election, by-election held on 9 February 2023. She retained the seat at the 2024 United Kingdom general election, July 2024 general election. Constituency profile The constituency is located in southern Lancashire, and borders Merseyside to the south and west and Greater Manchester to the east. Skelmersdale is the largest town, followed by Ormskirk and Burscough. The constituency shares its boundaries with the southern part of the borough of West Lancashire, while the northern part of the borough is in the South Ribble (UK Parliament constituency), South Ribble c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosie Cooper
Rosemary Elizabeth Cooper (born 5 September 1950) is a British health official and former politician. Cooper was a Liberal and later Liberal Democrat member of the Liverpool City Council from 1973 until 1999, when she joined the Labour Party. After leaving the council the following year, she was the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for West Lancashire from 2005 until her resignation in 2022, when she was named chair of the Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust. In 2018, she was the victim of attempted murder by Jack Renshaw. Early life and career Cooper was born in Liverpool, the daughter of deaf parents. She was educated at St Oswald's Roman Catholic Primary School, Old Swan, Bellerive Convent Grammar School, and the University of Liverpool. Cooper originally worked for a company called W. Cooper Ltd from 1973 to 1980, before joining Littlewoods initially as a buyer when, in 1994, she became the public relations manager and then, in 1995, the group corporate communications man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
