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    King Ecgbert School is a co-educational secondary school with academy status (age range 11–18) in the village of Dore in the south-west of Sheffield, South...
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    Ecgbert (died 19 November 766) was an 8th-century cleric who established the archdiocese of York in 735. In 737, Ecgbert's brother became king of Northumbria...
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    Joe Root (category People educated at King Ecgbert School)
    Billy plays cricket for Glamorgan. Root attended Dore Primary and King Ecgbert School in Sheffield, and at 15, on a cricket sports scholarship, Worksop...
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    defunct. Schools in Dore include Dore Primary School, King Ecgbert School (secondary) and the Rowan Primary Special School. There is also the old school which...
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  • Matthew Beard (English actor) (category People educated at King Ecgbert School)
    an English actor and model. Beard was born in London. He attended King Ecgbert School in Sheffield, achieving As in his A-Level subjects in 2007. He studied...
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    Saints Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Totley Primary School and King Ecgbert School. "Key Figures for 2001 Census: Key Statistics Area:...
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  • Billy Root (cricketer) (category People educated at King Ecgbert School)
    Yorkshire and former England Test captain Joe Root. He attended King Ecgbert School in Sheffield and Worksop College as a weekly boarder. Root and his...
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    Jessica Ennis-Hill (category People educated at King Ecgbert School)
    Highfield area of Sheffield, Ennis attended Sharrow Primary School and King Ecgbert School in Dore, where she took her GCSEs and moved on to the sixth...
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    ongoing partnership with King Ecgbert School in Sheffield, with Lesley Bowes assuming the role of executive headteacher. The school has its own private drive...
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  • Gina Higginbottom (category People educated at King Ecgbert School)
    [1] She passed the eleven plus examination and attended King Ecgbert Technical Grammar School for Girls. Her cousin is Richard Kirk of Cabaret Voltaire...
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    Tom Wrigglesworth (category People educated at King Ecgbert School)
    he comes from Totley in south-west Sheffield. He was educated at King Ecgbert School, and went on to study Electrical Engineering and then Acoustics at...
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  • High Storrs School Hinde House 2-16 School King Ecgbert School King Edward VII School Meadowhead School Mercia School Newfield Secondary School Notre Dame...
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  • Paul Jones (boxer) (category People educated at King Ecgbert School)
    Paul "Silky" Jones (born 19 November 1966 in Sheffield, England) is a former World Boxing Champion, nicknamed “Silky” for his quickness and defensive prowess...
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  • he was a pupil in the school founded at York by Ecgbert. Ecgbert ordained Æthelbert as a priest put him in charge of the school. Æthelbert was instrumental...
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  • Form, opened in 2004. Eight of the secondary schools have sixth forms, namely High Storrs, King Ecgbert, King Edward VII, Silverdale, Tapton, Meadowhead...
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  • Matthew Hesmondhalgh. Teacher of Children with Autistic Disorders, King Ecgbert School, Sheffield. For services to Special Needs Education. (Sheffield,...
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    Alcuin (category People educated at St Peter's School, York)
    Northumbria. He was born around 735 and became the student of Archbishop Ecgbert at York. At the invitation of Charlemagne, he became a leading scholar...
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    over the throne upon his death. Eadberht of Northumbria, the brother of Ecgbert, Archbishop of York, is seen by some historians as a return to the imperial...
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  • elevated to an Archbishopric; Ecgbert becomes the first Archbishop. 736 King Æthelbald of Mercia describes himself as "King of Britain". 739 17 October –...
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    6th century (see Anglo-Saxon Christianity). Both Ecgberht of Ripon and Ecgbert of York were instrumental in the Anglo-Saxon mission. The first organized...
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    Bede's theological works. Alcuin, who was taught at the school set up in York by Bede's pupil Ecgbert, praised Bede as an example for monks to follow and...
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    acted as diocesan rather than archdiocesan prelates until the time of Ecgbert of York, who received the pallium from Pope Gregory III in 735 and established...
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  • him to forbid the consumption of horseflesh by his Christian converts. Ecgbert is appointed bishop of York, by his cousin Ceolwulf of Northumbria. He...
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  • Eerdmans Publishing Co. p. viii. ISBN 978-0-8028-6309-6. King, J. E. (1930). "Introduction". In King, J. E. (ed.). Bede. Ecclesiastical History. Vol. 1: Books...
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  • empire into mainstream Byzantine Christianity. 740 First Archbishop of York Ecgbert bans Christians from eating with Jews. 787 Empress Irena decries the practice...
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  • Willibrord, and Swithbert, Adalbert of Egmond, and Chad of Mercia. Ecgbert of York founded a school, among whose students were the scholar Alcuin, and the Frisian...
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  • (Rotherham) 250 (Halifax) 300 (Isle of Axholme) 362 (Elm Tree) 366 (King Ecgbert) 367 (South Sheffield) 370 (North Sheffield) 558 (Finningley) formerly...
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    curriculum. There are 137 primary schools, 26 secondary schools—of which 10 have sixth forms: (High Storrs, King Ecgberts, King Edward VII, Silverdale, Meadowhead...
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    St Peter completed. 735 – Bishop Ecgbert is elevated to become first Archbishop of York. He establishes a library and school. 741 – Minster destroyed by fire;...
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  • 8th-century Gelasian Sacramentary, and the writings of the 8th-century bishop Ecgbert of York. It was not, however, until the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth...
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