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Grange Academy, Kilmarnock
Grange Academy (Scottish Gaelic: ''Acadamaidh Grange'') is a non-denominational secondary school based in Kilmarnock in East Ayrshire, Scotland. It serves the Bonnyton and town centre areas of the town, with the associated primaries being Crosshouse Primary, Annanhill Primary, Hillhead Primary, Gargieston Primary and Shortlees Primary. The current school estate was constructed in 2007, with the new campus, Grange Campus, opening in 2008 which also houses Annanhill Primary School and Park School. The current Head Teacher, Scott Robertson, took up post in March 2022 following the retirement of Robert Johnston. Scott Robertson is also the head of the wider Grange Campus. In 2022, Grange Academy was ranked as 202nd best performing state school in Scotland, an increase from 254th in the 2021 league table rankings. History The original Grange Academy opened to pupils and staff in August 1966. The Grange Academy building was closed for renovations in 2013. Although Grange Academy s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Grange may refer to: Buildings * Grange House, Scotland, built in 1564, and demolished in 1906 * Grange Estate, Pennsylvania, built in 1682 * Monastic grange, a farming estate belonging to a monastery Geography Australia * Grange, South Australia, a suburb of Adelaide * Grange, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane Ireland County Westmeath * Grange, Kilbixy, a townland in Kilbixy civil parish, barony of Moygoish * Grange, Kilcumreragh, a townland in Kilcumreragh civil parish, barony of Moycashel * Grange, Lackan, a townland in Lackan civil parish, barony of Corkaree Other counties * Grange, either of two townlands in County Laois, in the baronies of Ballyadams and Tinnahinch * Grange, Cork, a residential neighborhood in Douglas, County Cork, a suburb of the city of Cork * Grange stone circle in County Limerick near Lough Gur * Grange, County Sligo * Grange, County Tipperary * Grange, County Waterford United Kingdom England * Grange, a hamlet in the Medway district of Kent * Gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Gilmour
Billy Clifford Gilmour (born 11 June 2001) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion and the Scotland national team. Gilmour spent three months at a young age with Celtic before moving to Rangers, where he developed in the club's academy and trained with the first-team squad at the age of 15. He joined Chelsea in 2017 after turning down a professional contract with Rangers. Gilmour made 22 appearances for the ''Blues'' and was on the bench for the 2021 UEFA Champions League and FA Cup finals. He spent a season on loan at Norwich City where the club were eventually relegated before he signed with Brighton & Hove Albion on a permanent move the season after on summer deadline day 2022. He represented Scotland at every youth level from under-15, under-16, under-17, under-19 and under-21 levels before making his senior debut in 2021. Early life Gilmour was born on 11 June 2001 at Ayrshire Central ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1966 Establishments In Scotland
Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo is deposed by a military coup in the Republic of Upper Volta (modern-day Burkina Faso). * January 10 ** Pakistani–Indian peace negotiations end successfully with the signing of the Tashkent Declaration, a day before the sudden death of Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. ** The House of Representatives of the US state of Georgia refuses to allow African-American representative Julian Bond to take his seat, because of his anti-war stance. ** A Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference convenes in Lagos, Nigeria, primarily to discuss Rhodesia. * January 12 – United States President Lyndon Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communism, Communist aggression there is ended. * January 15 – 1966 Nige ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
School Of Rugby
A school is an educational institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes compulsory. In these systems, students progress through a series of schools. The names for these schools vary by country (discussed in the '' Regional terms'' section below) but generally include primary school for young children and secondary school for teenagers who have completed primary education. An institution where higher education is taught is commonly called a university college or university. In addition to these core schools, students in a given country may also attend schools before and after primary (elementary in the U.S.) and secondary (middle school in the U.S.) education. Kindergarten or preschool provide some schooling to very young children (typically ages 3–5). University, vocational school, college or seminary may be availabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scottish Gaelic-language Secondary Schools
Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including: *Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland *Scottish English *Scottish national identity, the Scottish identity and common culture *Scottish people, a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland *Scots language, a West Germanic language spoken in lowland Scotland *Symphony No. 3 (Mendelssohn), a symphony by Felix Mendelssohn known as ''the Scottish'' See also *Scotch (other) *Scotland (other) *Scots (other) *Scottian (other) *Schottische The schottische is a partnered country dance that apparently originated in Bohemia. It was popular in Victorian era ballrooms as a part of the Bohemian folk-dance craze and left its traces in folk music of countries such as Argentina ("chotis"Span ... * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ca:Escocès ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secondary Schools In East Ayrshire
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 obsolete 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 th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoë Strachan
Zoë Strachan (born 1975) is a Scottish novelist and journalist. She also teaches creative writing at the University of Glasgow. Biography Strachan grew up in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. She studied Archaeology and Philosophy at the University of Glasgow and earned a MPhil in Creative Writing at the universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde. She later herself became a creative writing tutor at the University of Glasgow. Strachan lives in Glasgow with her partner, the novelist Louise Welsh. Work Strachan's work has been published in ''New Writing'' 15, '' Bordercrossing Berlin'', ''The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature,'' and ''The Antigonish Review''. In 2006 she was named the first Writer-in-Residence at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. Her first novel, ''Negative Space'', was published in 2002 by Picador. It won the Betty Trask Award in 2003 and was shortlisted for the Saltire First Book of the Year Award. Her second novel, in 2004, was ''Spin Cycl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times
''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, in turn wholly owned by News Corp. ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'', which do not share editorial staff, were founded independently and have only had common ownership since 1966. In general, the political position of ''The Times'' is considered to be centre-right. ''The Times'' is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, such as ''The Times of India'', ''The New York Times'', and more recently, digital-first publications such as TheTimesBlog.com (Since 2017). In countries where these other titles are popular, the newspaper is often referred to as , or as , although the newspaper is of nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Cochrane
Harry Cochrane (born 24 April 2001) is a Scottish footballer who plays as a midfielder for Queen of the South, having previously played for Heart of Midlothian, as well as loan spells with Dunfermline Athletic and Montrose. Career Youth football Cochrane attended Kirklandpark Primary in Strathaven and later studied at Grange Academy, Kilmarnock where he was part of the Scottish Football Association Performance School. Cochrane began his football career with Rangers, before transferring to Heart of Midlothian at under-13 level. Hearts In June 2017 Cochrane signed a professional contract with Hearts, which committed him to the club until 2020. The following month he played in all four of the first team's pre season friendlies, netting in a 4–1 win against Linfield. On 15 August 2017, Cochrane played for Hearts Under-20s in the Scottish Challenge Cup against Formartine United. He made his first team debut for Hearts, aged 16, on 30 September 2017, playing from the start in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwich City F
Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. As the seat of the Episcopal see, See of Norwich, with one of the country's largest medieval cathedrals, it is the largest settlement and has the largest Norwich built-up area, urban area in East Anglia. The population of the Norwich City Council local authority area was estimated to be 144,000 in 2021, which was an increase from 143,135 in 2019. The wider Norwich Built-up area, built-up area had a population of 213,166 in 2019. Heritage and status Norwich claims to be the most complete medieval city in the United Kingdom. It includes cobbled streets such as Elm Hill, Norwich, Elm Hill, Timber Hill and Tombland; ancient buildings such as St Andrew's and Blackfriars' Hall, Norwich, St Andrew's Hall; half-timbered houses such as Dragon Hall, Norwich, Dragon Hall, Norwich Guildhal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Gilmour (footballer)
Billy Clifford Gilmour (born 11 June 2001) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion and the Scotland national team. Gilmour spent three months at a young age with Celtic before moving to Rangers, where he developed in the club's academy and trained with the first-team squad at the age of 15. He joined Chelsea in 2017 after turning down a professional contract with Rangers. Gilmour made 22 appearances for the ''Blues'' and was on the bench for the 2021 UEFA Champions League and FA Cup finals. He spent a season on loan at Norwich City where the club were eventually relegated before he signed with Brighton & Hove Albion on a permanent move the season after on summer deadline day 2022. He represented Scotland at every youth level from under-15, under-16, under-17, under-19 and under-21 levels before making his senior debut in 2021. Early life Gilmour was born on 11 June 2001 at Ayrshire Central ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirsty McCabe
Kirsty McCabe (born 10 July 1975) is a Scottish weather forecaster and presenter at Sky News, and was formerly the senior meteorologist at The Weather Channel, based at the UK office in London. Early life Kirsty attended Annanhill Primary School and Grange Academy, while at high school McCabe was an early member of the Palace Youth Theatre which was a joint venture between Kilmarnock and Loudoun District Council and Borderline Theatre Company. During this time she played roles in many stage productions including Alice in '' Alice in Wonderland'' and performed as a solo singer on many occasions, notably performing John Lennon's "Imagine" in the 1993 production of ''Summertime Blues''. McCabe studied Geophysics at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with a first class honours degree before going on to spend three months as an intern at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, where she used satellite magnetic data to interpret the underlying crustal structure of pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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