Sentences with phrase «victorian children»

Contribute resources to assist us in providing services to disadvantaged Victorian children, adolescents and families.

The Victorian Children's Council members are recognised experts relating to children's policies and services.

«I have been associated with Anglicare Victoria for many years as their Bequest Ambassador and I can tell you that leaving a Gift in your Will is a wonderful way to support their great work with disadvantaged Victorian children, young people and young families.

I have always been wary of presenting, not sure why precisely; perhaps a hangover from my journalistic days, when hanging in the shadows was more productive than being on a podium; and from being a recruiter, where, rather like Victorian children, a good recruiter at a client briefing should preferably seen and not heard, and if ever a question bubbled up, it should be uncontroversial and client - friendly, rather like the «Would My Right Honourable Friend not agree...» type of enquiry fired at David Cameron by the Conservative MP for Little Twiddlington - on - the - Water.

In 2014 the nursery opened its doors to reveal the daily life of the Victorian children who once played there.

From portraits of Victorian children with their dolls and books to explorations of today's virtual playground, the photographs reveal that while children may have vastly different toys from the past compared with the present day, there is still the desire to escape into a world of make - believe and imagination.

Whistle As You Walk way is a one - act play for KS2 that dramatises the lives and times of Victorian children working in the cotton mills.

Victorian educators and parents need a government that will invest in Victorian children and provide the resources schools need to deliver programs and support for their students.»

«Every day, Victorian children and students are working on innovative and interesting projects that engage them on environmentally sustainable practices,» he said in a statement.

But surely some parents who buy into the Victorian children «s clothes fantasy are trying to isolate their offspring, at least for a little while, from the modern world.

«One in seven Victorian children arrive at school on an empty stomach, affecting their ability to concentrate and learn,» Merlino said.

Berry Street is a Victorian child and welfare organisation that has established a multi-campus independent school in Noble Park, Morwell and Shepparton.

Foster care agencies are responsible for supporting foster carers, for meeting the protection and care needs of foster children and for working in collaboration with the Victorian Child Protection Service and the child's family to ensure their best interests are met.

Not exact matches

It was created in an effort to stop rampant epidemics and child deaths amid the grinding poverty and squalor of Victorian England.

Edward Short considers the ill treatment of children in Victorian Britain.

The programmatic structure in most congregations still reflects Victorian assumptions about the role of Christian parents in the faith formation of children.

The significance of mother - love and piety on the faith commitments of their children was overrated by Victorians.

The Victorian belief that children who are born to church members will automatically grow up to be Christians has not changed.

The isolation of single persons or childless couples from adults who are married and have children perpetuates the Victorian way of ordering relationships in a congregation; they organized all church activities to give optimal support to their vision of the ideal Christian family: a father, a mother, and several children.4

What began as a reasonable enough reaction against the Victorian tendency to disbelieve the wife and deprive her of her children upon divorce, has transmogrified itself into the very reverse, where husbands and fathers, even those of otherwise good reputation and position, are assumed to be the villains of the piece.

Dukes built a beautiful Victorian house for the purpose of hosting disadvantaged, intercity children so that they can spend time on the beach.

Victorian Minister for Education, James Merlino, said the decision to source local will not only help children but Victorian dairy farmers struggling to sell their milk.

Celtic Football and Athletic Club was established in the impoverished Victorian East End of Glasgow by Brother Walfrid, a member of the teaching institute of Marist Brothers, with the main object of providing food for «needy children in the missions of St. Mary's, Sacred Heart and St. Michael's.»

The Victorian community's attitudes to child sexual abuse.

It's why the Victorian era «children should be seen and not heard» mentality doesn't prevail today and why we don't send our littles to work in factories instead of to Kindergarten.

Victorians — nicely presented pages about children in Victorian times.

I hate that whole «seen and not heard» attitude about children, it's so Victorian, isn't it?

During the Victorian era in the mid to late 1800s, affluent women rarely breastfed their own children and hired out the «work» to a wet nurse.

Dr. Suzanne Gilberg - Lenz, the OB - GYN expert on momlogic.com, finds the whole thing an ironic twist on America's history of breastfeeding, which includes black wet nurses forced to breastfeed the slave owners» children during slavery and Victorian - era women who paid other women to nurse their children so they didn't have to be stuck at home.

It is very different from the Victorian method of placing a child in the corner, or locking him in his room.

The stereotype of the distant and tyrannical Victorian patriarch conceals substantial evidence of fathers who cared greatly for their children and played with them, educated them, and even nursed them.»

However, failing to provide those benefits at all to bereaved children because of their parents» choices is an abomination that makes more sense in a Victorian workhouse than modern Britain.

All 4 tonnes of the 25.2 - metre - long skeleton of a blue whale are suspended in mid-air from the Victorian vaulted ceiling — a perfect outing for late summer visitors or parents with fractious younger children.

So, when the Victorians get their hands on him, Newton becomes a middle class, respectable gentleman who loved children and had a dog who he played with.

Situated in the heart of the cultural area of the city, the restaurant is found in the Lantern Room of the stunning Home For Destitute Children which dates back to Victorian times.

In place of the voyages of the Beagle and that bizarre menagerie on the Galapagos Isles, we get a sodden family drama, set in early Victorian England, focusing on guilt over a lost child and an exaggerated moral struggle between a sickly husband who chooses reason over religion and a prim wife who prefers faith to fact.

The children's novel is a Victorian ghost story that centers on two abandoned Irish children who encounter a ghost and an ancient curse while working at an English manor house.

Reinvigorating the look of Alien Resurrection is the sensibility of French director Jean - Pierre Jeunet, whose previous films Delicatessen (1991) and The City of Lost Children (1995) point directly to the familiar yet exotic and new confines of the Auriga and the Betty (which have the same spooky, almost Victorian feel as the interior of Orson Welles» magnificent Amberson mansion) as well as strange obsessions with flesh (the new Ripley is described as a «meat byproduct») and cloning (both Perlman and Pinon co-star in City).

His wife (and eventual ex) Miranda (Sally Field), lives in this Pacific Heights Victorian with the couple's three children.

His plots may portray a fallen world — from the murder, greed, and romantic betrayal of his debut, Shallow Grave (94), to the grinding poverty, ethnic pogroms, and child slavery of Slumdog Millionaire (08)-- but with the reliability of a Victorian novelist, Boyle rewards virtue, punishes vice, and ensures that True Love conquers all.

He travels to Wales to find that this Victorian gothic pile with its gifted children exists in a 1943 time loop and its «peculiars» are now menaced by the dementor - ish «hollows» led by Samuel L Jackson with Marilyn Manson eyes, and there's a freaky finale in Blackpool, of all surreal places.

is set in the sleepy Victorian - era town of Cheesbridge, wherein the citizenry believes themselves to be under the terrible thumb of the eponymous boxtrolls, subterranean dwellers who appear to have an appetite for stealing children.

When the three Grace children — troubled Jared; his bookish twin, Simon; and their sister, Mallory, a fencing jock — move to the ancient Spiderwick mansion, they are at first none - too - enchanted by the rundown Victorian... until they discover a Brownie, an enchanted creature, living in the walls.

«Angelica is a gothic tale of a newly married couple living in Victorian London who endures a series of increasingly alarming psychological and supernatural effects following the birth of their child.

This resource contains supporting materials for history, on what is was like for children living in Victorian Britain.

Five fabulous play scripts which explore different periods in history: WW1 and WW2; Victorian mill children; Britain's child migrants and the histo...

«Our plan will deliver better facilities and better learning experiences for all young Victorians, whether they are pre-school children in early learning centres or students who are in their late teens and completing VCE.

Linked to my Victorians topic (but easily adapted) The children learn how to use images, video and hyperlink to create an interactive book.

In a 1982 transcript analysis of a conversation between an interviewer and the parents of a Year 8 student in a Victorian school, the lack of useful information in the child's report became a central theme of the interview (Meiers, 1982).

Miles acknowledges that capital funds, bricks and mortar funding, can be hard to get, and so it was a big break when they were awarded a significant grant under the Victorian education department's Children's Facilities Capital program, which supports early childhood programs and services.