St.Godric's RC Primary School - Aided catholic school originally founded in 1874, and set within its own grounds. Caters for children aged 4 to 11 . Includes contact details and image gallery of individual class work.
Thornley - Provides a history of the village, church, and its people . Includes a selection of photographs . From Go Britain .
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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Thornley Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Thornley
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Thornley I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Thornley
"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Thornley Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Thornley
Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Thornley Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Thornley
Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Thornley Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Thornley
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Thornley The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Thornley
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Thornley Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Thornley
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Thornley Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Thornley
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Thornley As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Thornley
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Thornley Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Thornley
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Thornley Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Thornley
