Clifton College

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Name: Clifton College

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 1 reports

MBE for Dr Eric Albone in Queen's Birthday Honours

Dr Eric Albone, a Research Associate in the Centre for Public Engagement, has been awarded an MBE for his services to education in the Queen's Birthday Honours.Dr Albone, the co-founder and director of the Clifton Scientific Trust, is also a member of ... [Published University Of Bristol - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Bristol, Clifton College, United Kingdom, Medic

First reported Jun 15 2013 - Updated Jun 15 2013 - 1 reports

Wells Cathedral School

Rural idyll in welcoming Chew Valley

Manor Farm, at Stowey in Somerset's Chew Valley, is on the market with agents Knight Frank. The guide price is £1.8 million.The property has been in the same ownership since 1981. During this period it has been completely renovated and converted from ... [Published This is Somerset - Jun 15 2013]

Entities: Wells Cathedral School, Clifton College, Property, Millfield

First reported Jun 04 2013 - Updated Jun 04 2013 - 1 reports

Bristol Cathedral Choir School

Out of Africa - Zulu children display their 'outstanding talents'

By | A SCHOOL in Withywood was visited by a Zulu choir made up of children from Africa.The choir, called Project Zulu, paid a visit to Four Acres Primary as part of tour of the UK aimed at raising money to install solar panels at their school in South ... [Published Clifton People - Jun 04 2013]

Entities: Bristol Cathedral Choir School, Clifton College, University of the West of England, South Africa

First reported May 30 2013 - Updated May 30 2013 - 1 reports

Clifton College

Dyslexic children can dramatically improve their performance at school by reading in a difficult font, according to research.

The extra effort needed to decode hard-to-read words boosts pupils’ results by almost a fifth overall, it was revealed.A study found that more challenging fonts such as Monotype Corsiva a flowing, italic typeface had a positive impact on all schoolchildren ... [Published Telegraph - May 30 2013]

Entities: Arial (United States), Clifton College, Dyslexia

First reported May 28 2013 - Updated May 28 2013 - 1 reports

Redland High School for Girls

Youngsters get ready for a charming performance

By | A DRAMA group put on a dress rehearsal for a play set to be staged in July.Youngsters taking part in a dress rehearsal for The Snake Charmer at Helen O'Grady Drama Academy Photograph: Michael Lloyd BRML2013 0523F-002_CMembers of the Helen O'Grady ... [Published Clifton People - May 28 2013]

Entities: Redland, Redland High School for Girls, Clifton College

First reported May 28 2013 - Updated May 28 2013 - 1 reports

In other stories from May 1953...

ALTHOUGH Bristol's news was full of the local preparations for the Queen's coming Coronation there were other stories.Princess Margaret, for instance, had flown into Weston airport to carry out engagements in the town as well as in North Somerset.After ... [Published This is Bristol - May 28 2013]

Entities: Bristol, Whitchurch (England, United Kingdom), Omar Bradley

First reported Apr 03 2013 - Updated Apr 03 2013 - 1 reports

Council clashes, reverses vote on .... flower pots

It seemed like a City Council debate today about flower pots, but it was really about cops, politics and appearances.Council members had asked the parks department last fall to try to find a way spread a program that maintains large flower pots in eight ... [Published Cincinnati Enquirer - Apr 03 2013]

Entities: Roxanne Qualls, John Cranley, Christopher Smitherman, Wendell Young

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"Clifton College is one of the top performing schools in the country, so parents and pupils expect to receive a quality service at all times, and maintaining the availability of our core business functions is critical. Moving to the cloud made a lot of sense as previously it might have taken up to three days to get the systems back online in the event of a disaster like a fire or flood, but the NaviSite disaster recovery solution allows us to get backback up and running in no time at all" said Richard Edwards, network manager, Clifton College

NaviSite Europe Takes Independent School to the Cloud for Disaster Recovery [Published PR inside - Jun 05 2013]

Verity Wilson, the school's special educational needs co-ordinator, said: "We were extremely privileged to be the only school in south Bristol that the choir was visiting."

Out of Africa - Zulu children display their 'outstanding talents' [Published Clifton People - Jun 04 2013]

"Our study suggests dyslexic pupils benefit significantly from reading information in a hard-to-read font and supports the idea that it is the greater cognitive processing that helps students remember what they have read" he said

Dyslexic children can dramatically improve their performance at school by reading in a difficult ... [Published Telegraph - May 30 2013]

Alison Majanec, who runs the academy's Redland class, one of 11 of classes the academy has in the Bristol area, said: "We do a play once a year. This play is one where everyone has lots and lots to do, not just one or two people in the limelight."

Youngsters get ready for a charming performance [Published Clifton People - May 28 2013]