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Guernsey Grammar School
Les Varendes High School Les Varendes High School is a non selective, state-funded secondary school in St Andrew's, Guernsey, St. Andrew's, Guernsey. It takes in students from Amherst, Notre Dame, St Mary and St Michael, and Vauvert primary schools. It was formerly known as the Guernsey Grammar School and Sixth Form Centre, which was a co-educational state-funded grammar school. Since the eleven-plus was removed by the States of Guernsey in 2019, the school has taken non-selective cohorts of students meaning whilst up to September 2023 it had some selective Grammar School students, it now has all high school students. The school was renamed to Les Varendes High School in September 2023 as the last selective Grammar group left the school and the restructuring of Guernsey's education system progresses. The Sixth Form Centre The Sixth Form Centre is a state-funded sixth form located in Saint Andrew, Guernsey, St Andrew's, Guernsey. It is the only state-funded, free admissio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman French
Norman or Norman French (, french: Normand, Guernésiais: , Jèrriais: ) is a Romance language which can be classified as one of the Oïl languages along with French, Picard and Walloon. The name "Norman French" is sometimes used to describe not only the Norman language, but also the administrative languages of '' Anglo-Norman'' and ''Law French'' used in England. For the most part, the written forms of Norman and modern French are mutually intelligible. This intelligibility was largely caused by the Norman language's planned adaptation to French orthography (writing). History When Norse Vikings from modern day Scandinavia arrived in Neustria, in the western part of the then Kingdom of the Franks, and settled the land that became known as Normandy, these North-Germanic–speaking people came to live among a local Gallo-Romance–speaking population. In time, the communities converged, so that ''Normandy'' continued to form the name of the region while the original Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
