Sentences with phrase «about school camp»

These Year 5s have taken the Seven Steps skills to heart, and their recounts about school camp shine with humour and enjoyment.

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Any Scripture that talks about Youth Pastors, Youth Camps, Praise Teams, Youth Leaders, Sunday School would be wonderful.

One faculty member of a school supposedly in Lindsell's camp described his book to me as the last irrational flailings of a discredited party about to be deposed.

We have memories of Sunday school and Bible camp; an early suspicion of adult Christianity as hypocrisy; a sense of complicity between church and dancing school — both drawing on a common list of acceptable folk and equally mad about white cotton gloves.

WHAT YOU NEED (serves 4) 1 bottle red winerind of 1 orange (peeled off with a vegetable peeler) rind of 1 lemon (peeled off with a vegetable peeler) 1 cup orange juice1 cinnamon stick1 whole star anise2 cardamom pods4 cloves1 / 2 cup sugar Mix all the ingredients in an old - school camp kettle or flameproof pot, then put it over a medium - hot fire and bring to a slow simmer.Cover with a lid and simmer over low heat (slowly) for about 15 minutes, stirring occasionally until the sugar has dissolved completely.

He's shown that he can knock down a 3FG (USA camp) but his stats from AAU, the people I've talked to about his high school play and from what I've seen in person all point to him not being an outside threat.

Wofford told 247sports.com that Ohio State's high school relations department contacted him about his interest and that because of his (Wofford) «relationship with Coach Meyer and the staff from when they recruited LB Trey Johnson,» among other factors, the camp «made sense.»

I mean, it had started harmlessly enough — a few kids with Princeton shirts in middle school, rumors of summer camps at Duke — but by the time senior year rolled around, competition was so fierce that people didn't even talk about where they were applying.

The first is that in looking at a more mature period of separation, we can glean some insight about how to best handle earlier separations (whether that's kindergarten, summer camp, or high school).

The good news is, just as schools have become much more proactive about identifying and preventing bullying, so too have camp operators.

While we know that not every camp can engage in a large evaluation process, we hope that our findings will be useful to others and inspire reflection about how camps can excel as high quality learning environments where kids can practice many of the essential skills they need for school, job, and relationship success.

In furtherance of that goal, graduates of the Lunch Teachers ® Culinary Boot Camps are recognized as culinary ambassadors who lead the school food reform in their own districts and embrace their essential role in teaching children about the pleasures and benefits of eating real food prepared in a healthful manner.

And be sure your child wears the bracelet everywhere, even if your church, school or camp knows all about your child's allergy.

The two - day craft fair, held at Warren Township High School, raised about $ 1,000 for special recreation camp scholarships.

Before joining the program this year, the camp was able to offer a lunchtime meal to about 50 children, according to its director, Mila Laschkewitsch, bilingual services coordinator for High School District 214.

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She loves helping South Bay parents connect with resources and working with camps, schools and other businesses to get the word out about their quality programs and services for families.

He talked about summer camps, after - school programs — activities that kept teens off the streets and away from gangs and drugs.

That makes administrators at the traditional sites for such programs — day camps, community centers, summer schools — worry about breaking even.

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Summer is a time when kids are out of school and excited about going to sleep - away camp.

Paladino's camp also argued his comments about the Obamas published in a local newspaper were the true reason school board members wanted him gone.

Others show Long Island's Democratic national committeeman Robert Zimmerman of Great Neck sent an email praising a DNC spokesman, and Jay Jacobs, the Nassau County Democratic chairman, asked for White House tours for his family and, separately, for about 60 middle - school kids and staff at his camp.

At the Washington, D.C., summit, for instance, «discussion split into two camps: scientific experts explored technical issues, whereas scholars who study science and society addressed questions about the possible disruption to social norms,» Sheila Jasanoff of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and Benjamin Hurlbut of Arizona State University in Tempe wrote last week in a commentary in Nature.

The psychologists studied two sets of sixth - graders from a Southern California public school: 51 who lived together for five days at the Pali Institute, a nature and science camp about 70 miles east of Los Angeles, and 54 others from the same school.

It's a different business model than the usual academic one, but because Hood learned as much about science from the telephone company and a geology camp as he did in school, he knows that progress is not the province of academia alone.

On January 26, NAOJ Chile Observatory staff members visited a summer camp held by Santiago Japanese School to give a lecture about the universe and astronomic...

Consider this my summer catch up — similar to when you return to your school friends after being away at camp all summer (tanner, refreshed, new you — or at least some great new finds to tell everyone about).

Updating your look for the fall season can seem daunting, and we know that while its «all about the fashion» in reality there are summer camps to pay for, back - to - school needs and more.

Knox and surrounding counties About Blog YOKE Youth Ministries is a faith based program connecting middle school students with adult mentors through after school clubs, camps, and special activities.

Santa Barbara, CA About Blog Santa Barbara's premier surf school specializing in summer camps, advanced clinics, private and group lessons, corporate outings, and event production.

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Annapolis, MD About Blog JumpBunch offers sports and fitness activity programs for children in preschools, schools, camps and for birthday parties.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening February 20, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Fired Up (PG - 13 for profanity, sexuality, partying, partial nudity and pervasive crude humor) Teen comedy about a couple of high school's football stars (Eric Christian Olsen and Nicholas D'Agosto) who hatch a plan to spend the summer at a camp filled with gorgeous girls by quitting the team to try out for the cheerleading squad instead.

I started thinking about the time I worked at a local summer camp and how much I enjoyed being with upper middle school students.

Come fall, those officials — two of whom are Hmong and were refugees themselves in the 1970s — expect that their school system may enroll about 1,000 children from the Thai camp.

Two camps, each with fervent belief about the name of the Ed School, have emerged.

The boot camp helps students become familiar with the process and the type of questions to expect, and getting accepted to those first schools builds their confidence and gets them excited about applying to the other 11 schools.

Still Working: Ghosts of Chinese Transcontinental Railroad Workers by Lonnie Dai Zovi, is a short ghost story with exercises about a pair of graduated high school students taking their last camping trip together sleeping out in the open, right where the deserted Chinese Labor camp, where the workers on the Transcontinental Railroad used to stay.

Joined by similar teams from seven other large districts, they camped out in dorm - like quarters while engaging in the kind of deep thinking about organizational change that, while common among captains of industry, is rare for most school administrators.

I had heard stories about the Northern Territory from my parents and teachers but I never really knew what to expect on my school camp to Alice Springs.

Wood: Interestingly, summer camp has probably influenced my thinking about time in school more than anything else.

Set within the framework of a monthly meeting between the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and its NGO partners, the case demonstrates the difficulty of providing schooling to an ever - growing, under - resourced, and possibly impermanent population, and it poses questions about the role of education in refugee camps.

Lastly, on the concern that testing sucks the energy out of school — the consequences of NCLB testing for individual teachers are about as meaningful as the consequences for camp counselors from losing color wars.

I'm sure many things would go wrong if we tried to make schools more like camps, but I think it's worth thinking about what we can learn from camps to make schools more effective.

Bradford looks between the polarized camps of reform advocates and charter critics to see the vast swath of centrist parents who don't know a thing about charter schools or school choice — yet.

Nicole Wardle has overseen the program for the past four years at Ogden High and has seen great results from the three - day camp during which students get a view of high school life, and also get filled with the idea that graduation is the goal and college is really what it's all about.

Fresno State also offers a Reading Laboratory with literacy tutoring services for struggling school - age children from the community, summer writing programs and camps for local children, a family literacy program for parents and students, and a collaboration with a local Hispanic radio channel that disseminates information about their programs to potential teachers.

«I have read that some of the surrounding districts have talked about the financial viability of continuing to provide a summer camp experience,» said Scott Carson, Shadow Mountain administrator and assistant principal at Landmark High School.

After camping out overnight in frigid rain in front of the Chicago Public Schools central office, people furious about the district's years of failed, top - down school interventions took over the Board of Education meeting.