Halsnead Community Primary School - Details of the school curriculum, staff and current vacancies at this primary school in Whiston.
St Luke the Evangelist Primary School - Roman Catholic school for pupils aged from three to eleven, with a nursery. Contact details, and information about their aims.
Prescot School - Comprehensive school. Includes information about their status as a Language College.
The Prescotian - For former pupils of Prescot Grammar, Girls Grammar and Prescot Schools. Information about reunions, photo archives, forum, and chat room.
Eccleston Lane Ends Primary School - Information about the curriculum, staff and after-school clubs, and a link to their latest OFSTED report.
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Education Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Education
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Education Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Education
Man and wife make one fool. If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Education He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Education
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Education Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Education
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Education "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Education
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Education The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Education
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Education Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Education
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Education When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams 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 Education
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Education
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is a rest period between romances. The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Education "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Education
blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Education "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Education
