Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Additional support needs services to be expanded in West Dunbartonshire
dailyrecord.co.ukSchools caring for pupils in West Dunbartonshire with additional support needs will be expanded to meet rising demand.Councillors backed plans to increase the secondary provision in the local area – as education chiefs said an extra nine classes for severe and complex learners were required.The majority of the pupils attending will come from the new additional support needs (ASN) bases in St Joseph’s, St Kessog’s and Renton primary schools.Kilpatrick School will be expanded, while the empty Riverside Early Learning Centre at St Martin’s Primary would also be used to support 36 young people.An unused part of the Choices facility in Jamestown will also be utilised for pupils who cannot engage in mainstream settings due to challenging social and emotional issues.Senior education officer Julie McGrogan provided an update to councillors at an education committee meeting last week.She said: “West Dunbartonshire is is line with national trends in terms of recognising increased additional support needs across our children and young people.“We previously addressed that with the expansion of our primary ASN settings but what we recognise now is these children are coming up and in order to give them the best possible start in West Dunbartonshire we need to look to extend our secondary provision.“By 2027 we will need space for an additional 57 young people in our secondary estate.“We propose to expand Kilpatrick School in phase one, to reuse the vacant Riverside early learning and childcare centre and to expand our Choices school in Jamestown.“This should enable us to meet the needs of our severe complex learners in West Dunbartonshire using our staff and making the best use of our resources.”She added that there would be
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