Bellerive FCJ Catholic College
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Bellerive FCJ Catholic College is an all-girls secondary school and a coeducational sixth form located on Windermere Terrace in Liverpool. It is a Roman Catholic school, and has academy status.AdmissionsIt is a Catholic girls' school. It is situated at the junction of the two sections of the A5089, on the Trans Pennine Trail.HistoryThe school opened in 1844 as a boarding school on Great George's Square, offering instruction in Geography, use of globes, Botany, History, Writing, Arithmetic, French and Italian languages. After 52 years the school was moved to Princes Park in 1887.Direct grant grammar schoolLike several single-sex catholic secondary schools in Liverpool it was a direct grant grammar school, the Bellerive Girls' School, commonly known as Bellerive Convent Grammar School, from 1946. The Belvedere Academy, another girls' school, is on the opposite side of Princes Park, and is also a former direct grant grammar school known as the Belvedere School for Girls. It is now a single institution spanning both sides of Ullet Road, connected by a private subway and it is called Bellerive FCJ Catholic College. Another catholic girls' direct grant grammar school in Liverpool was the Notre Dame Collegiate School, now the Notre Dame Catholic College.
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