St Thomas More School - Official site for the comprehensive Catholic school in Willenhall.
Albion Road Junior School - Children aged 7 - 11. In addition to the core national curriculum subjects the school also offers one year French and German classes for upper junior pupils.
Clothier Street Primary School - Children aged 4 - 11. With news and information on forthcoming events as well as examples of children's work.
Lodge Farm Junior School - History, prospectus, activities, photographs, contact details, and children's works.
Old Hall School - History, curriculum, photographs, staff, and contact details.
St Giles C of E Primary School - Photos of staff and pupils, out of school activities and information about the school and its policies.
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Education Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Education
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Education Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel 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
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Education To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Education
"By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Education Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Education
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Education If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Education
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Education "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Education
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Education Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Education
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "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) Education If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Education
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Education To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Education
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Education Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Education
