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Newcastle Upon Tyne Church High School
Newcastle upon Tyne Church High School (also known locally as "Church High") was a Private schools in the United Kingdom, private day school for girls in Jesmond, less than a mile north of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Until 2014 it was the oldest continuously operating girls' school established in the city. History "Church High", as the school is commonly known, was founded in 1885 by thChurch Schools Company(now known as the United Church Schools Trust). It left the company in 1925 and was independent thereafter, but retained ties with the Diocese of Newcastle and St Nicholas's Cathedral. The school was the first female team to appear on BBC Radio ''Top of the Form (quiz show), Top of the Form'', on Monday 3 October 1949; the first series in 1948 had been for only boys' schools (in London). The team won the first round against Richard Taunton Sixth Form College, Taunton's School for Boys in Southampton. It later progressed to the last round of the England section, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent School
An independent school is independent in its finances and governance. Also known as private schools, non-governmental, privately funded, or non-state schools, they are not administered by local, state or national governments. In British English, an independent school usually refers to a school which is endowed, i.e. held by a trust, charity, or foundation, while a private school is one that is privately owned. Independent schools are usually not dependent upon national or local government to finance their financial endowment. They typically have a board of governors who are elected independently of government and have a system of governance that ensures their independent operation. Children who attend such schools may be there because they (or their parents) are dissatisfied with government-funded schools (in UK state schools) in their area. They may be selected for their academic prowess, prowess in other fields, or sometimes their religious background. Private schools r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GCSE
The General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) is an academic qualification in a particular subject, taken in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. State schools in Scotland use the Scottish Qualifications Certificate instead. Private schools in Scotland may choose to use GCSEs from England. Each GCSE qualification is offered in a specific school subject (English literature, English language, mathematics, science, history, geography, art and design, design and technology, business studies, classical civilisation, drama, music, foreign languages, etc). The Department for Education has drawn up a list of preferred subjects known as the English Baccalaureate for England on the results in eight GCSEs including English, mathematics, the sciences (physics, chemistry, biology, computer science), history, geography, and an ancient or modern foreign language. Studies for GCSE examinations take place over a period of two or three academic years (depending upon the subject, school ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electrical Association For Women
The Electrical Association for Women (EAW) was a feminist and educational organisation founded in Great Britain in 1924 to promote the benefits of electricity in the home. History The Electrical Association for Women developed in 1924 from a proposal by electrical engineer Mabel Lucy Matthews and taken up by Caroline Haslett at the Women's Engineering Society, having been initially rejected by the Institution of Electrical Engineers and the Electrical Development Association. The organisation focused on ‘emancipation from drudgery’ by extending the benefits of electrification to middle class and working class homes and to engage women’s experience in the design of electric appliances and model homes. The first meeting to develop the organisation, at this time called the Women's Electrical Association, was held on 12 November 1924 at 1 Upper Brook Street, home of Lady Katharine Parsons. Attendees were leading figures in the world of engineering and women’s organisations, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann McMullan
Ann McMullan (12 May 1923 9 March 2006), was Director of the Electrical Association for Women as well as an officer of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Biography Ann McMullan was born in Newcastle upon Tyne on 12 May 1923 to Garth Glendenning and Madelaine Greener. Her grandparents were George Hammerton Glendenning and Alice Glendenning. As a result she was a cousin of Graham Laidler. Education She got her education from Church High School before going on to Abbey College at Malvern Wells. She graduated from a course in domestic science before joining the WAAF during the Second World War. Career McMullan served as a Code and Cypher Officer at Fighter Command Headquarters. After the end of the war McMullan went to Germany to work with displaced persons for a local community organisation. She moved on to Hong Kong for a time before going to South Africa to work with the ''African Children's Feeding Scheme'' in Johannesburg. McMullan went on to get a diploma in Public Rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irene Ward
Irene Mary Bewick Ward, Baroness Ward of North Tyneside, (23 February 1895 – 26 April 1980) was a British Conservative Party politician. She was a long-serving female Member of Parliament (MP), the longest serving female Conservative MP in history. She later became a life peeress in the House of Lords, and had served a total of 43 years in Parliament. Career Ward was educated privately and at Newcastle Church High School. She contested Morpeth in 1924 and 1929 without success and was elected to the House of Commons in 1931 for Wallsend, defeating Labour's Margaret Bondfield. A strong advocate for Tyneside industry and social conditions, she lost her seat in the 1945 general election, which Labour won by a landslide. In 1950, Ward returned to Parliament for Tynemouth, again defeating a female incumbent, Grace Colman. An active backbencher, she introduced the bill that became the Rights of Entry (Gas and Electricity Boards) Act, 1954. She promoted a Bill to pay pocket money ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Riseborough
Andrea Louise Riseborough (born 20 November 1981) is an English actress and producer. She made her film debut with a small part in ''Venus'' (2006), and has since appeared in more prominent roles in '' Happy-Go-Lucky'' (2008), '' Never Let Me Go'', '' Brighton Rock'', ''Made in Dagenham'' (all 2010), ''W.E.'' (2011), '' Shadow Dancer'', '' Disconnect'' (both 2012), ''Welcome to the Punch'', '' Oblivion'' (both 2013), '' Birdman'' (2014), ''Nocturnal Animals'' (2016), '' Battle of the Sexes'', ''The Death of Stalin'' (both 2017), '' Mandy'', '' Nancy'' (both 2018), ''The Grudge'' and '' Possessor'' (both 2020). Outside of film, Riseborough received a BAFTA nomination for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in the television film ''The Long Walk to Finchley'' (2008), and won critical acclaim for her performances in the Channel 4 miniseries ''The Devil's Whore'' (2008) and ''National Treasure'' (2016), as well as the BBC One miniseries ''The Witness for the Prosecution'' (2016). Her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ursula Dronke
__NOTOC__ Ursula Miriam Dronke (née Brown, 3 November 1920 – 8 March 2012Heather O'Donoghue"Ursula Dronke obituary: Inspirational teacher of Old Norse literature specialising in the sagas and poetry of medieval Iceland" ''The Guardian'' 25 March 2012.) was a medievalist and former Vigfússon Reader in Old Norse at the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Fellow of Linacre College. She also taught at the University of Munich and in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge University. Biography Born in Sunderland and raised in Newcastle upon Tyne, where her father was a lecturer at Newcastle University, Ursula Brown began her studies as an undergraduate at the University of Tours in 1939, returning to England and enrolling in Somerville College, University of Oxford, after the outbreak of war. She then worked for the Board of Trade until 1946, when she returned to Somerville as a graduate student in Old Norse and beginning in 1950 was a fellow and tutor in Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela Milner
Angela Cheryl Milner (3 October 1947 – 13 August 2021) was a British Paleontology, paleontologist who, in 1986 alongside Alan Charig, described the dinosaur ''Baryonyx''. Early life Milner was born Angela Girven in Gosforth, daughter of Cyril and Lucia Girven. Her father was the county engineer for Northumberland. She attended Newcastle upon Tyne Church High School, Church High school. She initially planned to focus on microbiology for her university degree, but inspiring lectures from Alec Panchen made her change to palaeontology. She gained a Bachelor of Science, BSc in zoology at Newcastle University and stayed there in 1969 to take a Doctor of Philosophy, PhD in palaeontology supervised by Panchen focusing on the Nectridea, nectrideans, a group of Paleozoic tetrapods. Career Milner was first employed at the Natural History Museum, London, Natural History Museum in London in 1976. Her unusual career path led her to reach a management as well as scientific role, finally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Caleb
Ruth Irene Caleb (born 1942) is a British film and television producer. She was appointed head of drama at BBC Cymru Wales, BBC Wales in the mid-1980s, making her the BBC's first ever female head of drama. She is known for her work on productions that include; Paweł Pawlikowski, Pawel Pawlikowski's ''Last Resort (2000 film), Last Resort'', the BBC One, BBC1 series ''Judge John Deed'' and Saul Dibb, Saul Dibb's ''Bullet Boy''. In 2012, it was announced that Caleb would partner with independent production company, Leopard Drama, the drama division of Argonon. One of her recent projects in collaboration with Argonon has been producing children’s drama series, ''Eve (UK TV series), Eve'', for CBBC (TV channel), CBBC. Ruth was awarded the British Academy Television Awards 2001, Alan Clarke BAFTA Award in 2001, for her "outstanding personal contribution to TV" and in 2012, was granted a lifetime achievement award at the year’s Women in Film and Television UK, Women in Film and Tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Akhurst
Lucy Akhurst (born 18 November 1970) is an English actress, writer and director who has been working mainly in television since the 1990s. She starred alongside Neil Morrissey in ''The Vanishing Man'' and then came to prominence in a lead role in 1999's ITV Network, ITV seven-part drama ''Wonderful You (TV series), Wonderful You''. She appeared as Tim's (Simon Pegg) girlfriend for four episodes of UK comedy ''Spaced'' and also guest-starred as a zombie in Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright's comedy film ''Shaun of the Dead''. She also appeared in the 2004 series of the BBC's ''Monarch of the Glen (TV series), Monarch of the Glen''. More recently she wrote, produced and starred in ''Every Seven Years'' a short film that has won several awards. She also directed, co-produced and had a small part in the independent British film ''Morris: A Life with Bells On'', written, co-produced by and starring her husband Charles Thomas Oldham, Chaz Oldham. Akhurst provided the voiceovers for ''EastE ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newcastle High School For Girls
Newcastle High School for Girls is an independent day school for girls aged 3–18 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. The Junior School is at Sandyford Park and the Senior School is located in the neighbouring suburb of Jesmond. The school was formed in September 2014 by the merger of Central Newcastle High School and Newcastle upon Tyne Church High School. It is operated by the Girls' Day School Trust, an organisation which ran one of the predecessor schools, Central Newcastle High, pre-merger. History Newcastle High School for Girls was formed by the merger of the predecessor single-sex girls' schools, Church High School and Central Newcastle High School, which had good records of academic performance. Central Newcastle High School GDST dates back to 1876 when the Girls' Public Day School Trust founded Gateshead High School. The School moved to Newcastle in 1895, and was renamed to Central Newcastle High School. In 1884, The Church Schools' Company decided to open a priva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evening Chronicle
The ''Evening Chronicle'', now referred to as ''The Comical'', is a daily newspaper produced in Newcastle upon Tyne covering North regional news, but primarily focused on Newcastle upon Tyne and surrounding area. The ''Comical'' is published by ncjMedia, a division of Reach plc. It has a circulation of 26,811 as of 2016, down −12.3% year on year. History The ''Chronicle'' originated as the ''Newcastle Chronicle'', founded in 1764 as a weekly newspaper by Thomas Stack and Ann Fisher. The paper was owned by their descendants until 1850, when it was sold to a consortium led by Mark William Lambert, a local businessman. The repeal of the taxes on newspapers in 1855, along with the hiring of new journalists and the installation of a new printing press created an opportunity to expand the newspaper. On 1 May 1858 the ''Newcastle Daily Chronicle'' was launched. The editor, Joseph Cowen, became its sole owner at the end of 1859. He soon turned the ''Chronicle'' into the most succe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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