SIR WILLIAM BORLASE’S GRAMMAR SCHOOL APPLICATION PROCEDURE & GUIDELINES FOR SIXTH FORM ENTRY 2014 Please complete the attached copy of our application form or find a copy inside our Sixth Form Prospectus for 2014 Entry. Fully complete Section 1 of the Application Form and return it to the ...
The Social Research Institute at UCL found that candidates whose families are ranked in the top 10% socioeconomic status were 50% more likely to gain entry into a grammar school, suggesting tutoring among other factors were superseding any true social mobility. In my own exam year, there was...
It’s really useful to understand the structure ofnoun phrases. Along with verb phrases, they form the backbone of all our written and spoken language. They can be short and concise (a single word – yes, even a single word can count as a ‘phrase’ because there is always the opportuni...
The educational use of “normal,” as well as the phrase “normal school,” was adopted from late 18th-century French, where an école normale (first recorded in 1793) was a school for the training of teachers. Here the adjective normale meant “which serves as a model,” according to th...
School is out for the summer, but I’d like to have an answer for them when they return in the fall. A: Things have certainly changed since we were in school—Pat in Des Moines and Stewart in Yonkers. But you’re the teacher (yes, we checked her out and she is), so here goes...