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  Oldham - LoveToKnow 1911
Of educational establishments the chief are the Lyceum, a building in Italian style, containing schools of art and science, and including an observatory; the largely-endowed blue-coat school founded in 1808 by Thomas Henshaw, a wealthy manufacturer of hats; the Hulme grammar school (1895), and municipal technical schools.
Oldham is one of the most important centres of the cotton manufactures, the consumption of cotton being about one-fifth of the total importation into the United Kingdom, the factories numbering some 230, and the spindles over 13 millions, while some 35,000 operatives are employed.
Oldham was incorporated in 1849, and became a county borough in 1888.
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 Blue Coat School, Oldham - Definition, explanation
The Blue Coat School, Oldham is a Church of England comprehensive school in Oldham, a town in North West England.
In July 1952, the trustees decided that, as the number of pupils in residence was gradually decreasing, Blue Coat should be closed as a residential school and the building converted for use as a secondary modern day school.
The Oldham Henshaw and Church of England Educational Trust, constituted in 1950, had as one of its aims the building and maintenance of new secondary schools, and one of its objectives was to provide a Special Agreement secondary school by extending and reorganising Blue Coat into a comprehensive school.
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 GENUKI: Oldham, Lancashire genealogy
Oldham church, or St. Mary's, dates from an early period, probably the latter part of the 12th century; stands on an eminence, near the centre of the town; was built in 1827; is in the later English style; has a pinnacled tower, and several beautiful painted windows; and contains a few monuments.
Another endowed grammar school is at Hollingwood; an Independent grammar school is at Green-acres; public schools are connected with seven of the churches, with six of the dis-senting chapels, and with the Roman Catholic chapel; and there are two other public schools at Glodwick and Townfield.
Three chapelries within the town, Oldham, St. Mary, Oldham, St. Peter, and Oldham, St. James, were constituted in 1835; twelve other chapelries, either within the borough or including parts of it, were constituted in years from 1835 till 1866; and all are politically in the parish of Prestwich.
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 Bank of England|Publications|News|2001|Target 2 Point 5 Results of the Regional Heat in Rossendale, near Blackburn on ...
At each of the 40 regional heats, the teams representing the schools and colleges participating in the 'Challenge' are taking on the role of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee and making a presentation to a panel of Bank of England judges.
The team from The Blue Coat School in Oldham were runners-up.
Audenshaw School in Manchester, Crompton House Church of England School in Oldham and Holy Cross College in Bury also participated in this heat.
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 BCF National Schools Championship 2003/4
It seems to be endemic in leagues and knockouts in Schools team chess - as opposed to one-day and individual events - and it has been going on for 20 years.
New schools are always appearing, but they tend to be less numerous than the ones that drop out.
Q Elizabeth GS Wakefield A (15.4) 1½ 4½ Blue Coat Oldham (16.1); Haberdashers A (13.3)* 2½ 3½ Oakham School (15.10); Monmouth School (14.8) 4½ 1½ K Edward VI Birmingham (15.7); RGS Guildford (15.4) 3 3 *Southend HS (16.2)
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  Compare Blue coat oldham school and find Blue coat oldham school resources on MALPAS.ALL-ABOUT
In fact, your daughter's school is probably getting a constant stream of similar questions, which may be why they couldn't answer your call (it may be summer for the students, but it's quite busy for us).
At many schools, loan processes are school-initiated, meaning that once the student accepts the loan, the school will "originate" the loan (transmitting your information to a loan servicer or guarantor and informing them of your loan amount).
If you are a public school teacher in a critical need area, you may qualify to have some of your debt paid by your state or school district.
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  Blue Coat School, Oldham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In July 1952, the trustees decided that, as the number of pupils in residence was gradually decreasing, Blue Coat should be closed as a residential school and the building converted for use as a secondary modern day school.
The Oldham Henshaw and Church of England Educational Trust, constituted in 1950, had as one of its aims the building and maintenance of new secondary schools, and one of its objectives was to provide a Special Agreement secondary school by extending and reorganising Blue Coat into a comprehensive school.
Voluntary aided status means that the governors of the school are responsible for the upkeep of all buildings and have to rely on the financial support and generosity of parents and friends of the school.
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 Charity school - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Blue Coat School (in this case Christ's Hospital, London) as drawn by Augustus Pugin and Thomas Rowlandson for Rudolph Ackermann's Microcosm of London (1808-11).
In England, a charity school, also called Blue Coat School, was originally a type of elementary school erected and maintained in various parishes, by the voluntary contributions of the inhabitants, for teaching poor children to read, write, and other necessary parts of education.
Charity schools began in London, and spread throughout most of the urban areas in England and Wales.
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 Blue Coat School, Oldham   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Blue Coat School, Oldham is a Church of England comprehensive school in Oldham, a town in North West England.
He left the school in acrimonious circumstances in 2001 when there was a mass rebellion against his style of teaching and realisation that he was ignorant to every music pupil who did not play a brass instrument.
Chris was viewed as a rare sex symbol at the school, but ironically this was his downfall as he slept with a senior student and was forced to resign to avoid repercussions.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Blue Coat School, Oldham   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Oldham is a large town in North West England, lying in the foothills of the Pennines on the north-eastern edge of the Greater Manchester conurbation: the town proper has a population of 103,544, including a large Asian population, with Bangladeshi, Indian and Pakistani communities.
Oldham was the birthplace of the composer Sir William Walton.
The Blue Coat School, Oldham is a Church of England comprehensive school in Oldham, a large industrial town in North West England.
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 Oldham
OLDHAM, a parliamentary borough and manufacturing town in the parish of Oldham-cum-Prestwick, in the Middleton division of the hundred of Salford and the county palatine division of Lancaster.
The parliamentary boundary is co-extensive with the chapelry of Oldham, comprising the towns of Chadderton, Crompton and Royton, in addition to the township of Oldham.
The cost of erecting the school was principally defrayed by a subscription among the inhabitants of Oldham amounting to between £5,000 and £6,000, and the building itself was completed in 1833-34 under the direction of Mr Lane.
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 Blue Coat School, Oldham
The motto of the schools is from the Latin: "Semper, Quaeraemus, Virtutem".
Hollis' vision as of July 2004: Now the school has proved to be "the best in Oldham", it is working to become "the best in the North West" which will pave the way "to become the best in England".
It involves the school's pupils parading in front of the residents of Oldham as they walk down to the parish church, under the guidance of senior teacher Simon Read, who has naval experience of such events.
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 Blue Coat School, Oldham - Iridis Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The motto of the schools is from the Latin: "Semper Quaereamus Virtutem".
In 1994 the school completed a major funraising campaign, enabling it to build a new Science department building, which was completed in 1995.
The Blue Coat school provides an education for those who live in the areas of Oldham, Saddleworth, Manchester, Tameside and Rochdale.
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 oldham information   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Oldham is a town in North West England, on the north-eastern edge of the Greater Manchester conurbation.
Oldham is set to become the largest town in the United Kingdom notto have a railway station, with the extension of the Metrolink set toreplace all rail links in the town.
Oldham was the birthplace of the composer William Walton.
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 Oldham Council - Local Studies & Archives - School Archives
Oldham School Board was established in 1871, Royton in 1879, and Chadderton in 1893.
Oldham School Board opened a School for the Deaf in 1890 and for the Blind in 1895; while special needs schools were established at Derker and Scottfield Schools in 1898, and also at Chaucer Street School.
Entrance to the grammar or ‘high’ schools was gained through the eleven-plus, the former senior ‘elementary’ schools and the central schools were redesignated as ‘modern’ schools, and a junior technical school was established.
www.oldham.gov.uk /community/local_studies/school-archives.htm   (1144 words)

  
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Oldham Compact aimed to foster through the project a better understanding between older people and school students by involving them in a common task of enquiry into local history and personal experiences of the past.
It was the judgement of the schools and Oldham Compact that comparatively more study support resources in the Borough in the past had been directed towards young people of lower attainment so the project focused on young people who were assessed to be of higher or average attainment.
Schools involved were continuing the relationship with their older partners, for example inviting them to school events.
www.standards.dfes.gov.uk /studysupport/816987/csdocs/oldhamhistory   (900 words)

  
 OLDHAM - Online Information article about OLDHAM
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Oldham is one of the most important centres of the cotton manufactures, the See also:
Oldham was incorporated in 1849, and became a county borough in 1888.
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 Polly Toynbee: Keep God out of class | News crumb | EducationGuardian.co.uk
The city's education committee is frustrated at having no say in the school admissions policies of the four Catholic, two C of E and one Muslim secondary: religious schools foil all attempts at future integration.
Grange School - 97% Asian - is a stone's throw from C of E Blue Coat school - almost entirely white.
Because Blue Coat, like Oldham's other C of E secondary, demands church attendance from parents with a vicar's letter to prove it.
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We ask that children in nursery and reception have a school dinner, as this is easier than coping with a sandwich box and containers in the early years and also develops the social skills of younger pupils.
If a child wants to change from school dinners to a packed lunch or vice versa this should be done at the beginning of a new half term, and a letter sent from the parent or guardian to this effect.
As a partner primary school with Blue Coat C.E. Comprehensive school we are involved in many ‘enrichment’ activities alongside secondary pupils.
www.mayfield.oldham.sch.uk /prospectus/prospectus10.html   (729 words)

  
 Cyber Media | News | Blue Coat School Web site launched
Founded in 1834 as a school for orphans, the Blue Coat School was one of the very first specialist colleges for science and maths.
Today it is a Beacon and Leading Edge school and has achieved recognition from Investors in People, Sport England, Microsoft Academy, and the Healthy Schools Award.
Two new Web sites for Connexions Oldham and Oldham Drugs and Alcohol Action Team (DAAT) are soon to follow.
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 Blue Coat CE School, Oldham, Oldham
Comments: Blue Coat CE School, (Local education authority: Oldham) is a Secondary School in, Oldham.
It is a Mixed school of Church of England religion.
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 Rochdale Observer - Top marks for schools   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Wardle High School staff, governors and pupils were also jumping for joy after receiving news the school had been accepted as a performing arts college.
This means the school will receive an extra £130,000 per year for arts activities in the school and the wider community.
A separate capital grant of £150,000 will be used to improve the school’s performing arts facilities, £50,000 of which was raised by sponsors, including Music Sound Foundation and the school's parent teacher association.
www.rochdaleobserver.co.uk /news/s/33/33277_top_marks_for_schools.html   (648 words)

  
 Mayfield Primary School
We continue to work with our partner secondary school Blue Coat which is one of the top performing schools in England.
Our children visit Blue Coat to use their facilities, plus, we have one of their maths teachers teaching in our school every fortnight to assist Year 6 in mathematics transition.
We are a healthy school and all our children receive fresh fruit at break times.
www.mayfield.oldham.sch.uk /head/head.html   (442 words)

  
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The chess team of the Blue Coat School Oldham, a C of E comprehensive school, have won their zonal qualifying competition to reach the national stage of this long-running annual event, formerly known as the (Sunday) Times competition.
All the players in the Blue Coat squad are native "Oldhamers" and also play for Three Cs in the MCF.
Stephen Gordon (BCF 206) must be one of the strongest school team board 1s in the country at the moment.
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 Oldham Exiles in New Zealand
I was born in Oldham in 1981 and lived in Clarksfield until I was 20.I attended Clarksfield Junior School and Saddleworth Senior School.
I was born in Oldham on roundthorn road to be exact in 1960 moved to Failsworth when i was two.
I was born in Oldham, I am a Latics fanatic, worked at BA for 15 years, emigrated to NZ in 1995.
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 Oldham - Genealogy, Family History, Surnames and Local History.
Frank W Smith (born 1862) was the son of George Barker Smith and Ellen(nee Cheetham, born 1836 in Gatley).
Born Oldham 1889 Married Annie Hamer in 1912.
His wife Ann was of Scottish decent and she worked in a workhouse or factory as a seamstress from the age of 12.
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 Blue Coat School, Oldham . July 2004 . University   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Recent Government grants have enabled the school to venture into a multi-million Pound_Sterling Pound building scheme.
So far additions have been a wheelchair lift to increase disabled access; and the reconstruction and further reconstruction of the school s Main Entrance.
For years 7 through to 9, the school uses a house system ; the school is divided into three smaller sections, or Houses.
www.uk.fraquisanto.net /Blue_Coat_School%2C_Oldham   (450 words)

  
 The School
The Blue Coat School is a Voluntary Aided Church of England Comprehensive 11-18 school.
We value every individual; we are passionately committed to our students’ achievement and their personal growth, and we aim for excellence in everything that we do.
We are proud of the national recognition we have achieved for high achievement and that we were one of the very first specialist colleges for science and maths.
www.blue-coat.oldham.sch.uk /about   (282 words)

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