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St Mary's College, Wallasey
St Mary's Catholic College (SMC) is a Catholic secondary school located in Wallasey, Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Wirral, in North West England. St Mary's is one of four Catholic secondary schools in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral. The others are St Anselm's College, St John Plessington Catholic College and Upton Hall School FCJ. St Mary's is a Roman Catholic secondary school and sixth form with academy status (since November 2016) located in Wallasey, Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Wirral, England. St Mary's Catholic College (SMC) is part of St John Plessington Catholic College (SJP) and works in very close relationship to further both schools. Pastoral care There are numerous pastoral systems in place in SMC which care for a student's college life. The two most notable pastoral system are the form and year-group systems. Each year-group comprises eight forms which are each named after one of the forty Catholic martyrs of England and Wales and then divided up into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy (English School)
An academy school in Education in England, England is a State school, state-funded school which is directly funded by the Department for Education and independent of local authority control. The terms of the arrangements are set out in individual Academy Funding Agreements. 80% of secondary schools, 40% of primary schools and 44% of special schools are academies Academies are self-governing non-profit Charitable trusts in English law, charitable trusts and may receive additional support from personal or corporate sponsors, either financially or in kind. Academies are inspected and follow the same rules on admissions, special educational needs and exclusions as other state schools and students sit the same national exams. They have more autonomy with the National Curriculum for England, National Curriculum, but must ensure their curriculum is broad and balanced, and that it includes the core subjects of English, maths and science. They must also teach relationships and sex educ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Bernadette
Bernadette Soubirous, SCN (; ; ; 7 January 184416 April 1879), also known as Bernadette of Lourdes ( in religion Sister Marie-Bernarde), was a miller's daughter from Lourdes ( in Occitan), in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées in France, and is best known for experiencing apparitions of a "young lady" who asked for a chapel to be built at the nearby cave-grotto. These apparitions occurred between 11 February and 16 July 1858, and the young lady who appeared to her identified herself as the "Immaculate Conception". After a canonical investigation, Soubirous's reports were eventually declared "worthy of belief" on 18 February 1862, and the Marian apparition became known as Our Lady of Lourdes. In 1866, Soubirous joined the Sisters of Charity of Nevers at their convent in Nevers where she spent the last years of her life. Her body is said by the Catholic Church to remain internally incorrupt. The grotto where the apparitions occurred became a major pilgrimage site and Marian sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1972 Establishments In England
Year 197 ( CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Magius and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 950 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 197 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats the self-proclaimed emperor Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). Albinus commits suicide; legionaries sack the town. * Septimius Severus returns to Rome and has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate executed. After his victory he declares himself the adopted son of the late Marcus Aurelius. * Septimius Severus forms new naval units, manning all the triremes in Italy with heavily armed troops for war in the East. His soldiers embark on an artificial canal between the Tigr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Independent
''The Independent'' is a British online newspaper. It was established in 1986 as a national morning printed paper. Nicknamed the ''Indy'', it began as a broadsheet and changed to tabloid format in 2003. The last printed edition was published on Saturday 26 March 2016, leaving only the online edition. The daily edition was named National Newspaper of the Year at the 2004 British Press Awards. ''The Independent'' won the Brand of the Year Award in The Drum Awards for Online Media 2023. History 1980s Launched in 1986, the first issue of ''The Independent'' was published on 7 October in broadsheet format.Dennis Griffiths (ed.) ''The Encyclopedia of the British Press, 1422–1992'', London & Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992, p. 330. It was produced by Newspaper Publishing plc and created by Andreas Whittam Smith, Stephen Glover and Matthew Symonds. All three partners were former journalists at ''The Daily Telegraph'' who had left the paper towards the end of Lord Hartwell' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Sloan
Professor Kenneth Mark Sloan (born 1972) is a British educational leader who has been Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive Officer of Harper Adams University since 2021. Early life and education Ken Sloan was born on 26 1972 in Wallasey, Merseyside, England. He was educated at St Mary's College in Wallasey, then read English literature at Glasgow University, graduating with a honours Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1995. He went on to study an MBA at the University of Warwick in 2001. Career in Higher Education Sloan started his career as an Audit trainee at KPMG between 1995 and 1997. He served as an admin officer at the University of Warwick between 1997-1999, then Assistant Registrar between 1999-2003, Director, 2003-2007 and Deputy Registrar 2008-2010. He joined Serco as Business Development Director between 2010-2012 before moving to Australia to take up the post of Registrar and Chief Operating Officer at Monash University Monash University () is a public university, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Walters
Jonathan Ronald Walters (born 20 September 1983) is a former professional association football, footballer who played as a forward (association football), forward. He is sporting director of Stoke City F.C., Stoke City. Walters started his senior career at Blackburn Rovers F.C., Blackburn Rovers but failed to break into the first team and joined Bolton Wanderers F.C., Bolton Wanderers. He then went out on loan to Hull City A.F.C., Hull City, Crewe Alexandra F.C., Crewe Alexandra and Barnsley F.C., Barnsley before joining Hull permanently. He then went on to play for Wrexham A.F.C., Wrexham and Chester City F.C., Chester City before finally finding regular football at EFL Championship, Championship side Ipswich Town F.C., Ipswich Town. Walters spent three years at Portman Road before joining Stoke City F.C., Stoke City for £2.75 million in August 2010. He scored twice in the 2010–11 FA Cup, 2011 FA Cup semi-final against Bolton Wanderers to bring the final score to 5–0, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Delamere
Louise Alexandra Delamere (born 17 June 1969) is an English actress, best known for her roles as Lia in the Channel 4 comedy drama ''No Angels'' and Colette Sheward in the BBC medical drama ''Holby City''. Career Delamere appeared in ''Agatha Christie's Poirot'', in the episode ''Evil Under the Sun'', where she played Arlena Stuart-Marshall, an actress who is murdered on a beach. She was featured in the '' Cadfael'' episode " The Holy Thief" and appeared in the BBC crime show '' Waking the Dead'' as Elaine Ashcroft, again playing a murder victim in the fourth season finale ''Thin Air''. She also had a role in the television drama '' The Chatterley Affair'' and has appeared in ''Torchwood''. She played the recurring character Marion James in the fifth series of '' Waterloo Road''. Delamere appeared as regular character Colette Sheward in BBC medical drama ''Holby City'' from 3 December 2013 until 4 November 2014. She attended Glasgow's Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Dram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lead Guitarist
Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the featured guitar, which usually plays single-note-based lines or double-stops. In rock, heavy metal, blues, jazz, punk, fusion, some pop, and other music styles, lead guitar lines are often supported by a second guitarist who plays rhythm guitar, which consists of accompaniment chords and riffs. History The first form of lead guitar emerged in the 18th century, in the form of classical guitar styles, which evolved from the Baroque guitar, and Spanish Vihuela. Such styles were popular in much of Western Europe, with notable guitarists including Antoine de Lhoyer, Fernando Sor, and Dionisio Aguado. It was through this period of the classical shift to romanticism the six-string guitar was first used for solo composing. Through the 19th century, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Songwriter
A songwriter is a person who creates musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a composer, although this term tends to be used mainly in the classical music genre and film scoring. A songwriter who mainly writes the lyrics for a song is referred to as a lyricist. The pressure from the music industry to produce popular hits means that song writing is often an activity for which the tasks are distributed among a number of people. For example, a songwriter who excels at writing lyrics might be paired with a songwriter with the task of creating original melodies. Pop songs may be composed by group members from the band or by staff writers – songwriters directly employed by music publishers. Some songwriters serve as their own music publishers, while others have external publishers. The old-style apprenticeship approach to learning how to write songs is being supplemented by university degrees, college diplomas and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Carr
Martin Carr (born 29 November 1968) is an English musician and writer who was the chief songwriter and lead guitarist with the band The Boo Radleys. Born in Thurso, Scotland, he was raised in Wallasey, England. Life and career Carr was born in Thurso as his Mancunian father was working at the nuclear facilities at Dounreay at the time: the family moved to Merseyside when Carr was at a very young age. The first single he bought was " Message in a Bottle" by The Police. Martin attended St. Mary's College, Wallasey Village, and played an early gig with The Boo Radleys at The Grand nightclub in New Brighton. After the breakup of the Boo Radleys, Carr launched a solo career, taking the name bravecaptain from a song by the U.S. rock band Firehose. His solo work has largely been more electronic based than his previous work, and mainly features himself on lead vocals, whereas in The Boo Radleys he rarely sang (despite writing the lyrics). In 2008, Carr announced that he had rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle Butterly
Michelle Butterly (born 5 February 1970) is an English actress. Career She graduated from the Central School of Speech and Drama. She has played Julie Oldroyd in ''Soldier Soldier'' in 1997, Melanie Dyson in ''Casualty'' from 1999 to 2001, and she has appeared in '' Pie in the Sky'', ''The Bill'', ''No Angels'', ''Midsomer Murders'', and '' Dangerfield''. She appeared for two series as Ms Perin in the BBC2 sitcom '' Beautiful People''. In 2012, she joined the cast for the fifth series of ''Benidorm Benidorm ( , , ) is a municipality in the province of Alicante, Valencian Community, on the Mediterranean coast of Spain. Known as the “New York City, New York of the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean”, Benidorm has been a tourist destinatio ...'', playing scouser Trudy alongside her friend Sam, played by Shelley Longworth. References External links * Voice agent Living people 1970 births Actresses from Liverpool Alumni of the Royal Central School of Speech and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Boo Radleys
The Boo Radleys are an English alternative rock band who were associated with the shoegazing and Britpop movements in the 1990s. They originally formed in Wallasey, England, in 1988, with singer/guitarist Simon "Sice" Rowbottom, guitarist/songwriter Martin Carr, and bassist Tim Brown. Their name is taken from the character Boo Radley in Harper Lee's 1960 novel, ''To Kill a Mockingbird''. The band split up in 1999. In their 11-year-long career, the band had one top-ten single, 1995's " Wake Up Boo!", which charted at no. 9, and a number-one album, '' Wake Up!''. The band reunited in 2021, without Carr, and released a single, "A Full Syringe and Memories of You", their first new music since 1998. Paul Banks of Interpol has cited the band as an influence. Career Beginnings In 1990, the band's first album '' Ichabod and I'' was released on a small British indie label, Action Records. Although not a commercial success, this release brought the band to the attention of Rough Trade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
