St James Primary School - A brief history of the school, guide to the staff and year groups, and information about their millennium project and after school clubs.
Holy Trinity C of E Primary School - Presentation of activities with photographs, list of staff and governors, news, and contact information. Located in Clayhanger.
Millfield Primary School - General information on the building, the staff, and activities with photographs and links.
Ogley Hay Nursery School - General information: history, photographs, staff, and contact details. A section for kids with their works.
"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Education
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Education "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) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Education
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Education My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Education
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Education We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Education
"See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "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 A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Education
How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Education Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Education
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Education I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) 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 Education
"If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, 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 You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Education For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Education
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "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) Education "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) There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Education
"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) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Education He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Education
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Education If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
