St Thomas' CE Primary School - For girls and boys aged four to eleven. Information about the curriculum, prospectus, newsletters, extra-curricular activities, and examples of pupils' work.
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"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Education I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Education
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Education It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Education
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Education Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Education
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Education Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Education
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Education Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Education
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Education "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Education
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Education A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Education
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Education He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Education
Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Education The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Education
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Education I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Education
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Education Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Education
