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Ruskin High School, Crewe
Ruskin Community High School is a coeducational comprehensive secondary school in Crewe, Cheshire, England, for pupils aged 11 to 16 years. History The school was founded in 1902 as Crewe County Secondary School in rooms at the then Technical College in Flag Lane and moved to the new Ruskin Road building in 1909. The name changed to Crewe County Grammar School after the 1944 Education Act. The last CCGS reunion was held in 2012 for pupils who entered the school in 1971 or 1972. When secondary education in Crewe was reorganised the school became the Ruskin County High School (and fully comprehensive) in 1978. It achieved a Specialist Schools status in 2002 after a successful application to the Specialist Schools Trust and sufficient fund-raising. Headteachers: Mr D Postlethwaite (2019 - Present) Mrs E Brett (2009 – 2019) Mr Mottershead (1994 - 2009) Mr J.R. Munks (1974 - 1994) Mr Lucas (1968 - 1974) Mr Harold M. Dowling (1953 - 1967) Mr Storey (1938 - 1942) Mr D.H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Community School (England And Wales)
A community school in England and Wales is a type of state-funded school in which the local education authority employs the school's staff, is responsible for the school's admissions and owns the school's estate. The formal use of this name to describe a school derives from the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.School Standards and Framework Act 1998 Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Board School 
In the mid-19th century, government involvement in schooling consisted of annual grants to the
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Alan Gibbons
Alan Albert Gibbons (born 14 August 1953) is an English writer of children's books and campaigner known for his advocacy of libraries. He has written over 60 books and won a number of awards including a ''Blue Peter'' Book Award for his best-selling book ''Shadow of the Minotaur''. Gibbons lives in Liverpool, England, where he worked as a primary school teacher and where he serves as a local councillor. Early life and career Gibbons was born in Warrington, Cheshire. His father was a farm labourer, but was badly hurt in an accident when Alan was eight years old. The family had to move to Crewe, Cheshire. Gibbons worked as a journalist and in a number of factory jobs before training to be a teacher in his mid-thirties. Literary career While working as a teacher in Knowsley, Gibbons started writing short stories for his students. Later, he began to write professionally. Best known for writing children's and young adult fiction, Gibbons has written over 60 books, which have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Educational Institutions Established In 1902
Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty. Various researchers emphasize the role of critical thinking in order to distinguish education from indoctrination. Some theorists require that education results in an improvement of the student while others prefer a value-neutral definition of the term. In a slightly different sense, education may also refer, not to the process, but to the product of this process: the mental states and dispositions possessed by educated people. Education originated as the transmission of cultural heritage from one generation to the next. Today, educational goals increasingly encompass new ideas such as the liberation of learners, skills needed for modern society, empathy, and complex vocational skills. Types of education are commonly divided into formal, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secondary Schools In The Borough Of Cheshire East
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 the secon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Schools In Cheshire East
This is a list of schools in Cheshire East, a unitary authority in Cheshire, England. State-funded schools Primary schools *Acton CE Primary Academy, Acton *Adlington Primary School, Adlington *Alderley Edge Community Primary School, Alderley Edge *Alsager Highfields Community Primary School, Alsager *Ash Grove Academy, Macclesfield *Ashdene Primary School, Wilmslow *Astbury St Mary's CE Primary School, Newbold Astbury *Audlem St James' CE Primary School, Audlem *Beechwood Primary School and Nursery, Crewe *The Berkeley Academy, Wistaston *Bexton Primary School, Knutsford *Bickerton Holy Trinity CE Primary School, Bickerton *Black Firs Primary School, Congleton *Bollinbrook CE Primary School, Macclesfield *Bollington Cross CE Primary School, Bollington *Bollington St John's CE Primary School, Bollington *Bosley St Mary's CE Primary School, Bosley *Brereton CE Primary School, Brereton Green *Bridgemere CE Primary School, Bridgemere *Brierley Primary School, Crewe *Broken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Places In Cheshire
This is a list of places within the ceremonial county boundaries of Cheshire, in North West England. A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P R S T U V W See also * List of Cheshire settlements by population * List of civil parishes in Cheshire * Places of interest in Cheshire * List of places in England Here is a list of places, divided by ceremonial counties of England. See also * Toponymy of England * Toponymical list of counties of the United Kingdom *List of generic forms in British place names * List of places in the United Kingdom * Sub ... {{Cheshire ! *Places Cheshire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Jones (English Presenter)
David "Steve" Jones (born 7 June 1945) is an English disc jockey, television presenter, Voiceover artist and former musician. He is most well known for presenting gameshow ''The Pyramid Game'' from 1981 to 1984 and again in 1989-90. The game had previously been part of LWT's ''The Steve Jones Game Show'' in 1979–1980. He was notable for his large collection of brightly coloured spectacles. In the 1960s, he played as a bassist for Lonnie Donegan, and formed the band Hunt, Lunt & Cunningham. In 1972, he briefly worked as a disc jockey on BBC Radio 1, before moving to the BBC Radio 2 early show. In 1974, he joined Radio Clyde. Later he was a stand-in presenter on Radio 2, for the likes of David Hamilton (broadcaster), David Hamilton. In 1980 he provided the BBC Radio 2 commentary for the Eurovision Song Contest 1980, Eurovision Song Contest, which was held in The Hague. In the mid-1980s he made several appearances in Dictionary Corner on the gameshow ''Countdown (game show), Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chloe Lloyd
Chloe Lloyd (born 2 October 1992) is an English fashion model. In 2015, she appeared on the magazine covers of Elle Portugal and Norway. Early life She was born to parents Robert and Melanie Lloyd on 2 October 1992 in Cheshire, England. She has an older brother Dean Lloyd. She attended Ruskin High School before she studied performing arts at South Cheshire College. Career Lloyd-Cuthbert is signed with Unique Models. In 2010, at the age of 17, she won the title of Face of Bank after beating thousands of models in the bid to be the new face of high street store's newest campaign. Soon after she got a modeling contract in 2011. Lloyd is represented by The Squad Management. Throughout the years, she has also modelled for magazines such as ''Cosmopolitan'', ''Brides'', ''Marie Claire'', ''Glamour'', and ''Vogue''. In 2012, she was featured in the music video for The Wanted's song, "I Found You." In 2014/15, she modelled for NewYorker, Maybelline, Rubber B, The Body Shop, and Schwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compass Group
Compass Group plc is a British multinational contract foodservice company headquartered in Chertsey, England. It is the largest contract foodservice company in the world employing over 500,000 people. It serves meals in locations including offices and factories, schools, universities, hospitals, major sports and cultural venues, mining camps, correctional facilities and offshore oil platforms. Compass Group is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It is also a Fortune Global 500 company. History Origin Compass Group has its origins in a company which was founded by Jack Bateman in 1941 as Factory Canteens Limited and which subsequently became known as Bateman Catering. Bateman Catering and Midland Catering were acquired by conglomerate Grand Metropolitan in 1967 and 1968 respectively and a management buy-out from Grand Metropolitan followed in 1987 when the Compass Group was formed. Public listing Compass Group was first listed on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Sarson
Ian James Sarson (born 15 March 1963) is a British businessman, and the former managing director of Compass Group UK & Ireland. Education He went to Crewe County Grammar School, two years below Mark Price the managing director of Waitrose, from 1974 to 1979. From 1979 to 1981 he did an OND in Hotel and Catering Management at South Cheshire College in Crewe. He studied Hotel and Catering at Hollings College (now the Hollings Campus of Manchester Metropolitan University, off the A6010) in Manchester from 1981 to 1984. He completed a MSc in Coaching and Mentoring in March 2020. Career He worked at the French company Sodexo, a main competitor of Compass Group. He joined Compass in 2004. Compass Group is based next to Chertsey railway station, off the A317 road. He became managing director of the UK arm in April 2010. He was replaced in this role by Dennis Hogan. He subsequently became Compass's director for healthcare in Europe and Japan and managing director for Northern Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Prophett
Colin George Prophett (born 8 March 1947 in Crewe) is a former professional footballer. He was a defender who played for Sheffield Wednesday, Norwich City, Swindon Town, Chesterfield and Crewe Alexandra Crewe Alexandra Football Club is an English professional association football club based in the town of Crewe, Cheshire, that competes in League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system. Nicknamed 'The Railwaymen' because of .... Prophett made his league debut on 6 September 1969 for Sheffield Wednesday in an away match at Arsenal. References *''Canary Citizens'' by Mark Davage, John Eastwood, Kevin Platt, published by Jarrold Publishing, (2001), External linksColin Prophettat Swindon-Town-FC.co.uk 1947 births Crewe Alexandra F.C. players Sheffield Wednesday F.C. players Norwich City F.C. players Swindon Town F.C. players Chesterfield F.C. players Matlock Town F.C. players Heanor Town F.C. players Alfreton Town F.C. players Living people Foo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waitrose
Waitrose & Partners (formally Waitrose Limited) is a brand of British supermarkets, founded in 1904 as Waite, Rose & Taylor, later shortened to Waitrose. It was acquired in 1937 by employee-owned retailer John Lewis Partnership, which still sells groceries under the brand. Its head offices are located in Bracknell and Victoria, England. Waitrose & Partners has 332 shops across the United Kingdom, including 65 "little Waitrose" convenience shops, and a 5.1% share of the grocery market, making the company the twelfth-largest retailer of groceries in the UK. They also export products to 52 countries and have locations in the Middle East. The chain has been described by ''The Daily Telegraph'' and ''The Guardian'' as having an "upmarket" reputation, although former managing director Mark Price suggested prices are competitive to Tesco, a mid-market chain. The company also had a royal warrant to supply groceries, wine, and spirits to Queen Elizabeth II and, as of 1 January 2011 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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