Sentences with phrase «british school children»

Child mental health is everybody's business: the prevalence of contact with public sector services by type of disorder among British school children in a three - year period

British school children once learned penmanship by repeatedly writing snippets of age - old wisdom.

With the largest response to date, the eighth annual What Kids Are Reading report includes results from over 12 million comprehension quizzes on fiction and non-fiction titles taken by British school children in the last academic year.

In this «Need to Know», it is estimated that thousands of British school children are forced into marriage every year.

BJSS has partnered with Turinglab, an organisation dedicated to teaching coding skills to British school children, and Ada, the National College for Digital Skills, to deliver the UK's first creative coding platform aligned with the national computing curriculum.

With the largest response to date, the eighth annual What Kids Are Reading report includes results from over 12 million comprehension quizzes on fiction and non-fiction titles taken by British school children in the last academic year.

For school children, IT consultancy BJSS, has partnered with Turinglab, an organisation dedicated to teaching coding skills to British school children, and Ada, the National College for Digital Skills, to deliver a creative coding platform aligned with the national computing curriculum.

Debate still rages over the extent to which British school children are tested, despite the decision by children's secretary Ed Balls to scrap the Key Stage 3 tests and replace them with school - based assessments by teachers.

Many hours later Michael returned to our commentary box on Centre Court and I tried again, as I was sure that if we as British school children had sweated over this conundrum then so must he.

Not exact matches

«Whether it was the use of hotels instead of supportive care to house youth like Alex Gervais, or the heartbreaking story of Paige Gauthier whose belongings were dropped off in a black garbage bag at her last known school when she aged out, Mary Ellen gave British Columbians a window into the stories of children and youth being failed by the Christy Clark government.

Paul will discuss How Children Succeed in a speech and a panel discussion at the 2013 Spring Forum of the British Columbia School Superintendents Association.

Want to enroll your children in swim lessons at British Swim School?

De-registering a child from school — what to do if your child is in school Getting started — what to expect in the first months of home educating Different styles — These will depend on your personality and preferences Mailing list information — links to home educators» online mailing lists General links — links to general sites about home education Local group sites — links to mailing lists or sites related to British home educators» groups GCSE guide — how can home educators take GCSEs if they wish to?

Many British home educators, who start by using structure a bit like a school day, find themselves veering more and more to autonomous child - led learning, exploring new topics together, and following the child's own need to learn at their own rate.

Schools can promote social inclusion by helping children to discover a version of British history that acknowledges how people from a range of ethnic backgrounds have contributed to contemporary British society, according to new research.

British aid went on improving dementia care in Qingdao and a schools programme to encourage children to eat less salt.

It is possible of course that clever individuals choose other ways of getting on in the world than through education, but the fact remains that many children in British and Swedish schools do not appear to fulfil their academic potential.

Her father, John Crowfoot, was an administrator in the British Education Service, which ran schools for the children of British civil servants.

Commenting on the project, Imran Khan, CEO of the British Science Association, said: «UK school children will be at the forefront of science helping researchers understand more about flu in a landmark year for study of the virus.

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This was similar to National Health Service estimates that 2 percent to 5 percent of school - aged British children have ADHD, but far below the 11 percent reported in the United States.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 is the eighth and final installment of the long - running film series adapted from the children's fantasy novels by British author J. K. Rowling, centering on the titular half - human boy wizard and his adventures at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry.

She provides Mary a tour of the school, which stands many stories tall, containing devices as ordinary as elevators (Mumblechook points out that electricity is, after all, a form of magic) and as fantastic as bubbles that carry students to their classrooms (In one of the classes, the filmmakers fit in a small homage / jab at a famous, British child wizard, who's tormented by a flying broomstick that he can't control).

On a winter's day, in the small rural community of Sam Dent, British Columbia, a school bus inexplicably crashes into a frozen lake, taking the lives of fourteen children and injuring many others...

Take a lonely British child, add an unexpected discovery and a previously unknown world of magic — including a special school run by powerful wizards — and what do you have?

For the uninitiated, Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) is in his fourth year at Hogwart's boarding school, where British children gifted with magic learn to channel their skills in the arts of wizardry.

«Some teachers and parents are reluctant to give children the freedom to get outside but we want to remove that fear and introduce a culture - shift in British schools.

According to research published by children's mental health charity Place2B, in partnership with union NAHT, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), and the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), 34 per cent of counsellors and psychotherapists who work with children and young people said it was difficult to provide their services to schools.

The British Standard guidelines recommend that schools purchase furniture with the appropriate dimensions for the age and size of the children using the equipment.

The investigations revealed that the schools identified provided a sub-standard education, placed children at risk and undermined the government's effort to ensure all schools promoted British values.

Top of the agenda In April, the British Institute of Facilities Management's (BIFM) newly - revamped Education Special Interest Group (SIG) held a key event at the 128 - acre Cobham Campus of ACS International Schools, which is home to 1,500 children aged two to 18.

Specialist school trip operator Pavilion Tours (paviliontours.co.uk) is running a series of Sporting Legends conventions, the next one from 6 - 8 June, offering school children and college students the exciting opportunity to meet top British athletes including Iwan Thomas and Danny Crates.

The You're the Chef project involved school ‑ wide recipe competitions where children submitted their own British recipes, with winning entries cooked for the school.

The Prevent Duty is entirely consistent with schools» existing responsibilities, and good schools will already have been safeguarding children from extremism and promoting fundamental British values long before the duty came into force.

Back in 2014, the British Parking Association (BPA) was busy lobbying against proposals to ban the use of CCTV and ANPR by local authorities for parking enforcement, including the use of cameras for parking enforcement outside schools which could potentially put children's lives at stake.

The Telegraphreported that children in Spain are spoilt for choice, with the National Association of British Schools in Spain listing 52 member institutions in locations from the country's Atlantic north coast to the Canary Islands.

Commenting on the future of the Partnership, Sheila Dillon said, «It seems to me that if we lost what the Food for Life Partnership has achieved it would not only be a disaster for the schools and the children, it would be a disaster for the entire British society».

Top chef Phil Howard will lead the Cucina British Food Fortnight effort by judging the successful «You're the Chef» competition, where school children will be invited to develop their own British recipes.

School caterers All caterers are invited to take part in British Food Fortnight and the patriotic summer of 2016 is the perfect chance to get children excited about the wonderful food we produce in this country.

But there's still lots of help available if your team needs it — on the Children's Food Trust's website, you'll find checklists, information on food customs, a chart of British seasonal food, a drinks table summarising the types of drinks your school can serve, and examples of compliant menus to help you plan menus with confidence.

The More than a Score coalition, which covers 16 teaching and early years» organisations including the NEU, the British Educational Research Association, the Association of Child Psychotherapists and parents» group Let Our Kids Be Kids, is also concerned about the idea of short tests in pupils» first few weeks at school.

New research has revealed that the average British parent will almost # 4,000 per child throughout the duration of their primary and junior education ensuring that they have school uniform, packed lunches and more.

2,381 British parents aged 18 and over, all of whom stated that they have at least one child in their last year of primary / junior school, were quizzed about the financial requirements of schooling.

Between school, homework and after - school activities, British children are spending an average of 5 hours each week outside [1] compared to 45.5 hours in front of the TV.

New research from the British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) shows that one in ten 14 - 16 year olds in the UK say that tomatoes grow underground, and a quarter of primary school children say that cheese comes from plants.

A new study by the British Medical Journal suggests that school programmes encouraging children to eat healthily and exercise more have no effect on childhood obesity.

Children 16 and under are competing with pupils across the UK in the Classroom of the Future Competition, being run by schools supply company Viking and the British Institute of Interior Design.

Earlier this year, a school teacher tragically died when a bus carrying a party of British children crashed in France on their way home from a skiing trip.

In the UK, the weather can often be a barrier to taking children outdoors for regular lessons and it may be that the addition of a school canopy or shade sail, may be just the thing to make sure that your school is not depending on the British weather to get the children in the fresh air.

Recent research, as published in the British Journal of Music Education, found that school children between the ages of 11 - 16 who were taking instrumental lessons, attained higher levels of academic success in GCSE Maths and English than their peers.