Along with a couple of years at a convent school, that seems to have been her education.

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Other gems were when phoning the mother superior of a convent school Phinn was shocked with the reply of "This is the head of St John the Baptist speaking!"

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During their visit to La Sainte Union Convent School, Mr Blair and Mr Blunkett also revealed that another 50 schools, including La Sainte Union, are to be awarded "beacon" status.

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St Joseph's Convent Primary School, Newry.

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She taught history and French at the school attached to the convent.

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The Clarence Thomas Center for Historic Preservation at the Savannah College of Art and Design is located at the former convent for the nuns who ran Thomas' elementary school.

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It was he who encouraged her to argue at the dinner table (conduct frowned on at the Convent of the Faithful Virgin, where she went to school).

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