Nottingham Council House for Centuries There Were Two Halls Where Important Decisions for the City Were Taken, One for the English Community and One for the French
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Year 10 Autumn 1 Knowledge Organiser Nottingham Council House For centuries there were two halls where important decisions for the city were taken, one for the English community and one for the French. The Norman building, the Moot Hall, once stood at the corner of Wheeler Gate and the English town hall, or Guildhall, remained at Weekday Cross until the 1880s. The affairs of the town were administered there is a fine chamber which was also known as the Council House. The last meeting in this building was in 1877 after which there was a move to temporary accommodation until the Old Exchange, which stood on the site of the present Council House, was adapted for use in 1879. In the 1920s, Nottingham architect T. Cecil Howitt was commissioned to design Nottingham's prestigious new Council House. Interestingly Howitt worked in the council's City Engineers Department. He also designed many notable buildings in Nottingham including Nottingham Trent University's Newton Building and Nottingham University's Portland Building. Initial plans had an estimated cost of £500,000, which is a time of economic recession caused some public outcry, but the Council gave assurances that the sum would be recovered through rent from businesses using the premises. The first design provided for a shopping arcade and office accommodation only, and it was not until the Council realised itwould have to spend a further £100,000 on new civic offices and council chamber elsewhere that the plan was revised to incorporate these. T Cecil Howitt is said to have had some trouble deciding the style of the building but settled on a classical design as something more modern was in danger of becoming dated. The contract was let in 1925 and the foundation stone laid in 1927, on what was to be the largest stone building commissioned in the country since the First World War. The official opening on May 22, 1929, has been recorded as a perfect day when thousands of people massed for the arrival of the Prince of Wales. The Prince, later to become King Edward VIII, opened the great doors with a gold key, which is still displayed on a wall plaque, just inside the building to the left of the grand staircase. 2 Contents Timetable 4 Subject: Geography 26 Reading Log 5 Subject: History 28 Principal’s Reading 7th Sept 7 Subject: French 30 Principal’s Reading 14th Sept 8 Subject: GCSE Computer Science 32 Principal’s Reading 21st Sept 9 Subject: Design Technology 34 Principal’s Reading 28th Sept 11 Subject: Hospitality and Catering 36 Principal’s Reading 5th Oct 13 Subject: Art and Design 38 Principal’s Reading 12th Oct 15 Subject: Drama 40 200 word challenge 16 Subject: Hair and Beauty 42 Subject: English Language 18 Subject: OCR Sports Science 44 Subject: Maths 20 Subject: Health and Social Care 46 Subject: Biology 22 Subject: DIT 48 Subject: Chemistry 23 Subject Business and Enterprise 50 Subject: Physics 24 3 Timetable Belong to BBA Year 10 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Maths Principal’s Reading 200 word challenge Option 2 OCR Sport w/b 7th Sept French/History/ Science Option 1 English Language English Literature Geography Maths Principal’s Reading 200 word challenge Option 2 OCR Sport w/b 14th Sept French/History/ Science Option 1 English Language English Literature Geography Maths Principal’s Reading 200 word challenge Option 2 OCR Sport w/b 21st Sept French/History/ Science Option 1 English Language English Literature Geography Maths Principal’s Reading 200 word challenge Option 2 OCR Sport w/b 28th Sept French/History/ Science Option 1 English Language English Literature Geography Maths Principal’s Reading 200 word challenge Option 2 OCR Sport w/b 5th Oct French/History/ Science Option 1 English Language English Literature Geography Maths Principal’s Reading 200 word challenge Option 2 OCR Sport w/b 12th Oct French/History/ Science Option 1 English Language English Literature Geography 20 mins reading of your 20 mins reading of your 20 mins reading of your 20 mins reading of your 20 mins reading of your ALL WEEKS own book own book own book own book own book (record on Reading Log) (record on Reading Log) (record on Reading Log) (record on Reading Log) (record on Reading Log) 4 Reading Log Belong to BBA Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Read: Read: Read: Read: Read: W/b 7th Sept For: _________ minutes For: _________ minutes For: _________ minutes For: _________ minutes For: _________ minutes Signed:__________________ Signed:________________ Signed:________________ Signed:__________________ Signed:________________ Read: Read: Read: Read: Read: W/b 14th Sept For: _________ minutes For: _________ minutes For: _________ minutes For: _________ minutes For: _________ minutes Signed:__________________ Signed:________________ Signed:_________________ Signed:__________________ Signed:________________ Read: Read: Read: Read: Read: W/b 21st Sept For: _________ minutes For: _________ minutes For: _________ minutes For: _________ minutes For: _________ minutes Signed:__________________ Signed:________________ Signed:_________________ Signed:__________________ Signed:________________ Read: Read: Read: Read: Read: W/b 28th Sept For: _________ minutes For: _________ minutes For: _________ minutes For: _________ minutes For: _________ minutes Signed:__________________ Signed:________________ Signed:_________________ Signed:__________________ Signed:________________ Read: Read: Read: Read: Read: W/b 5th Oct For: _________ minutes For: _________ minutes For: _________ minutes For: _________ minutes For: _________ minutes Signed:__________________ Signed:_______________ Signed:________________ Signed:__________________ Signed:________________ Read: Read: Read: Read: Read: W/b 12th Oct For: _________ minutes For: _________ minutes For: _________ minutes For: _________ minutes For: _________ minutes Signed:__________________ Signed:________________ Signed:_________________ Signed:__________________ Signed:________________ 5 Principal’s Reading 6 Principal’s Reading w/b 7th Sept Achieve at BBA How the world is waking up to palm oil in the wake of banned Iceland orang-utan advert in the past 20 years those forests have been into the air, accelerating global warming. decimated by logging crews. In Indonesia, a football Ads such as Iceland’s can only help, says Rewcastle pitch-sized space is cleared every 25 seconds. Brown. “It plugs into grassroots shoppers and gets “It feels sometimes, when you drive through that message across that we have a choice over what Indonesian Borneo, like the whole island is now one we buy,” she says. “And the publicity’s great. I’ve massive palm oil plantation and timber estate,” says been banging on about this for 10 years but I had to Dr Galdikas, a primatologist who had studied orang- get a story that overthrew a government before I utans since 1971. Her study site, Camp Leakey in could get anywhere.” central Borneo, still rescues orang-utans from the pet The ad itself has proven controversial. On November trade, and those whose habitat has been destroyed 9, Iceland Foods tweeted: “You won’t see our by business. Christmas advert on TV this year because it was “The longer one spends with them, the longer one banned. But we want to share Rang-tan’s story…” It Iceland’s “Rang-tan” advert, depicting an animated realises that the three percent difference in DNA wasn’t actually banned, just judged unfit, yet the orang-utan sheltering in a child’s bedroom from between humans and orang-utans actually doesn’t furore sent it viral. James Corden shared the video, loggers destroying its habitat in Borneo, is on course explain who they are,” says Galdikas. “They’re more tweeting: “This commercial was banned from TV for to be the most popular Christmas advertisement to like humans than anyone could imagine. Their being too political. Everyone should see it.” motions are similar, their intellects are similar” date. The video has already been watched more than The business move away from palm oils will cost 30 million times, despite not appearing once on Galdikas says we can make a difference. “Try to Iceland £5 million but generated generous publicity television. avoid palm oil as much as possible, in food and for the plight of the orang-utan. detergents that you use, and toothpaste.” I’d Palm oil is highly saturated, making it versatile and, crucially, cheaper than animal fat. As a result, it is in recommend reading supermarket labels, product up to 50 percent of supermarket products, from bread labels and staying away from the wrong oils.” That (Orginal article: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/ to chocolate, cereal and even toothpaste. Sir David can be tricky. world/how-the-world-is-waking-up-to-palm-oil-in-the- wake-of-banned-iceland-orangutan-advert- Attenborough has explained how this cheap fix is She says the plight of the orang-utan is emblematic of a3992311.html) ruining natural habitats. wider devastation in the region. “I’ve met the tribal The World Wide Fund for Nature estimates that there people whose lands have been taken from them,by are only 14,700 Bornean, 13,846 Sumatran and 800 brute force in many cases, by the big logging gangs Tapanuli orang-utans left in the wild, a sharp decline going in.” She recalls palm oil plantations where from around 230,000 a century ago (now classifying “tractors were lined up in a row to bring the jungle them as “critically endangered”). Their common down as quickly as possible”. The loss of tree roots name, orang-utan, is derived from the Malay and sees the soil drain into the rivers, turning the waters Indonesian