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Arts And Media School, Islington
Arts and Media School Islington, is a secondary school located in the Finsbury Park area of the London Borough of Islington. It is classified as a comprehensive trust foundation school and has been a specialist media arts college since 2003. Susan Service was appointed headteacher in 2016 after having served as the deputy head of curriculum for 5 years. History The Victorian building, still in use today, was originally Montem St School. Later the school was known as Tollington Park Secondary School and, more recently, as George Orwell School. The school was renamed as Islington Arts and Media School (IAMS) in the school year 1999–2000. Initially, Torsten Friedag was appointed as a "super head" but quit after two terms. Richard Ewen was appointed as headteacher and improvements in the school resulted in a 2004 Ofsted report that read: "Islington Arts and Media school is an effective and rapidly improving school that provides a good quality of education and good value for mon ...
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Foundation School
In England and Wales, a foundation school is a state-funded school in which the governing body has greater freedom in the running of the school than in community schools. Foundation schools were set up under the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 to replace grant-maintained schools, which were funded directly by central government. Grant-maintained schools that had previously been voluntary controlled or county schools (but not voluntary aided) usually became foundation schools. Foundation schools are a kind of "maintained school", meaning that they are funded by central government via the local education authority, and do not charge fees to students. As with voluntary controlled schools, all capital and running costs are met by the government. As with voluntary aided schools, the governing body employs the staff and has responsibility for admissions to the school, subject to rules imposed by central government. Pupils follow the National Curriculum. Some foundation scho ...
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The Voice UK (series 3)
''The Voice UK'' is a British television music competition to find new singing talent. The third series began airing on 11 January 2014 on BBC One, as opposed to the usual start in March. will.i.am and Tom Jones returned as coaches, while Kylie Minogue and Ricky Wilson joined the show as replacements for former coaches, Jessie J and Danny O'Donoghue. Emma Willis and Marvin Humes co-presented the show for the first time, replacing Holly Willoughby and Reggie Yates. On 9 February 2014, it was announced that a new spin off show called '' The Voice: Louder on Two'' would air every weekday during the live shows on BBC Two hosted by Zoë Ball. Jermain Jackman of Team Will was crowned as the winner of the series on 5 April 2014, making him the first male artist to win the show. Also, Jackman is the first winner in the show's history (before Ruti Olajugbagbe in the seventh series, Blessing Chitapa in the ninth series and Craig Eddie in the tenth series) to have only received one-c ...
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Secondary Schools In The London Borough Of Islington
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NSG (group)
NSG is a British afroswing collective from East London. The group consists of Kruddz, OGD, Papii Abz, Dope, Mxjib, and Mojo. They released two mixtapes, ''Grown Up'' and ''Roots'', the latter includes their most successful single "Options" featuring Tion Wayne. NSG is acronym that has multiple meanings such as: Nipple Sucking Gang, Non-Stop Grinding, Never Stop Growing, No Sleep Gang, New Sound Group, and Nigeria Slash Ghana. History NSG are a collective of childhood friends who grew up in Hackney, London, attending the same high school at Arts and Media School, Islington. Some of the members were students at University of Hertfordshire. The group consists of three artists from Nigerian heritage and three artists from Ghanaian heritage. Two of the members, Kruddz and OGD, are the younger brothers of producer Jae5. OGD is also part of a production team named 4PLAY. NSG released their first single "Whine and Kotch" in December 2013, and collaborated with English rapper J Hus in 2 ...
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Troy Titus-Adams
Troy Titus-Adams (born Troy Johanna D. Adams, October 1969) is a British actress and dancer. She began her career touring as a dancer and made her feature film debut in ''Knights and Emeralds'' (1986). She is known for her roles in the soap operas ''EastEnders'' (1999–2000) as Nina Harris and ''Family Affairs'' (2000) as Kim Davis. She also appeared on the game show ''Blankety Blank'' (2001). Early life Titus-Adams is from Islington, North London. She was born to Jamaican father Joe Titus, a builder, and English mother Maggie Adams, a secretary at a London hospice. Her parents split when she was six, and she spent four years until she was ten in Amsterdam. Titus-Adams attended George Orwell Comprehensive School and took after-school acting classes at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts The Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts is a performing arts conservatoire based in Woking, England. It was founded in 1911 by Italia Conti, an actress. The first production at Ital ...
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Jay Simpson
Jay-Alistaire Frederick Simpson (born 1 December 1988) is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker or winger for Welling United. A product of the Arsenal Academy, he never played a league game for Arsenal, spending most of his time on loan, at Millwall, West Bromwich Albion and Queens Park Rangers. In 2010, he joined Hull City, and was released three years later. Simpson spent time in Thailand with Buriram United, winning the 2014 Kor Royal Cup before returning to England with Leyton Orient. He later played two years with Philadelphia Union of Major League Soccer, before returning to England and rejoining Orient. He now plays for Welling United Football Club. Club career Arsenal Born in Enfield, London, Simpson was with Norwich City before he joined Arsenal at the age of nine, and played in an under-18s game at just 13 years of age. He featured prominently for Arsenal's reserve team whilst at Islington Arts and Media School, and was on the bench for the ...
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Kaya Scodelario
Kaya Rose Scodelario-Davis ( née Humphrey; born 13 March 1992) is an English actress best known for her roles as Effy Stonem on the E4 teen drama '' Skins'' (2007–2010, 2013), and Teresa in the ''Maze Runner'' film series (2014–2018). Other roles include Catherine Earnshaw in Andrea Arnold's ''Wuthering Heights'' (2011), Carina Smyth in '' Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales'' (2017), Carole Ann Boone in ''Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile'' (2019), Haley Keller in ''Crawl'' (2019), Katarina Baker in the Netflix original series '' Spinning Out'' (2020) and Claire Redfield in '' Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City'' (2021). Early life Scodelario was born Kaya Rose Humphrey on 13 March 1992 in Haywards Heath, West Sussex. Her mother, Katia Scodelario, is a Brazilian accountant from Itu, São Paulo, who moved to England in 1990; Scodelario's surname comes from her mother's Italian grandfather. Her father, Roger Humphrey, was English and died in Nov ...
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Desmond's
''Desmond's'' is a British television situation comedy broadcast by Channel 4 from 1989 to 1994. Conceived and co-written by Trix Worrell, and produced by Charlie Hanson and Humphrey Barclay, ''Desmond's'' stars Norman Beaton as barber Desmond Ambrose, whose shop is a gathering place for an assortment of local characters. The show is set in Peckham, London, and features a predominantly black British Guyanese cast. With 71 episodes, ''Desmond's'' became Channel 4's longest running sitcom in terms of episodes.Paul Jackson"Desmond's" ''Britain in a Box'', BBC Radio 4, 11 May 2013. Notability While the show was not the first black (or predominantly black) British television situation comedy ('' The Fosters'', produced by London Weekend Television, aired 1976 –77), ''Desmond's'' was the first to be set mainly in the workplace, providing an insight into black family life different from what had been seen before on British television. The characters had aspirations (Desmond to retu ...
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Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network operated by the state-owned enterprise, state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a fourth television service in the United Kingdom. At the time, the only other channels were the television licence, licence-funded BBC One and BBC Two, and a single commercial broadcasting network ITV (TV network), ITV. The network's headquarters are based in London and Leeds, with creative hubs in Glasgow and Bristol. It is publicly owned and advertising-funded; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the station is now owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation, a public corporation of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, which was established in 1990 and came into operation in 1993. Until 2010, Channel 4 did not broadcast in Wales, but many of its programmes were re-broadcast ...
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Justin Pickett
Justin Pickett is an actor best remembered for his role in the Channel 4 situation comedy ''Desmond's''. For six seasons he played the role of Sean Ambrose, son of the barber in whose eponymous shop the comedy is set, situated in the heart of Peckham. Pickett appeared in an episode of the spin-off series '' Porkpie'' in 1995. From 2005 to 2007, Pickett had the recurring role of Chez Williams in the ITV1 police drama ''The Bill''. Theatre credits include the role of Edward in Charles Smith's ''Sentence Deferred'' at the Rosemary Branch Theatre in 2000. Since 2004 he has served as musical director for Afterglow blu, a company promoting live music events in the Greater London area. He has also played drums in a soul-jazz band.''Evening Standard The ''Evening Standard'', formerly ''The Standard'' (1827–1904), also known as the ''London Evening Standard'', is a local free daily newspaper in London, England, published Monday to Friday in tabloid format. In October 2009, ...
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Don McCullin
Sir Donald McCullin (born 9 October 1935) is a British photojournalist, particularly recognised for his war photography and images of urban strife. His career, which began in 1959, has specialised in examining the underside of society, and his photographs have depicted the unemployed, downtrodden and impoverished. Early life McCullin was born in St Pancras, London, and grew up in Finsbury Park, but he was evacuated to a farm in Somerset during the Blitz.Don McCullin at SundaySalon
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The Voice UK
''The Voice UK'' is a British singing competition television series. Created by John de Mol, it premiered on BBC One during the spring television cycle on 24 March 2012. Based on the original ''The Voice of Holland'', and part of ''The Voice '' franchise, it has aired eleven series and aims to find currently unsigned singing talent (solo, duets, trios or professional and amateur) contested by aspiring singers, drawn from public auditions. The winners receive a recording contract with Universal Music Group. Winners of the eleven series have been: Leanne Mitchell, Andrea Begley, Jermain Jackman, Stevie McCrorie, Kevin Simm, Mo Adeniran, Ruti Olajugbagbe, Molly Hocking, Blessing Chitapa, Craig Eddie and Anthonia Edwards. The series employs a panel of four coaches who critique the artists' performances and guide their teams of selected artists through the remainder of the series. They also compete to ensure that their act wins the competition, thus making them the winning co ...
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