Sentences with phrase «achieving at least some child»

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A number of parents threatened the school with legal action over the summer after their children were prevented from beginning their second year of A-levels because they didn't achieve at least three B - grades in their first year tests.

FUTP 60 is active in more than 73,000 U.S. schools and encourages children to consume nutrient - rich foods, including dairy, and achieve at least 60 minutes of physical activity every day.

Initial consultation of at least one hour duration, to discuss your child's sleep pattern and how to monitor the sleep pattern effectively in order to achieve the best way forward.

Sleeping all night — or at least going back to sleep without help — is a developmental ability that every child achieves eventually.

In primary nocturnal enuresis (PNE), children have never achieved complete night time control, always wetting at least a couple times a month.

The mothers who ate oily fish at least once every 2 wk during pregnancy were more likely to have children who achieved foveal stereoacuity than were the mothers who never ate oily fish (adjusted odds ratio: 1.57; 95 % CI: 1.00, 2.45).

«I certainly expect my straight friends to help us achieve that for all New Yorkers, for all Americans, and for the children that, at least, Marc and I hope to have someday.»

Deeply impressed by his deception, I wanted to know how he had achieved this, just as any child wants to be able to imitate a skill that has impressed him, or at least to know how it works.

Notably, while baseline antibody levels among children in this trial were about 10-fold to 50-fold lower than pre-immunization levels in adults at this same site, children achieved post-immunization AMA1 antibody levels that were at least as high as those seen in vaccinated adults [17], [20].

Cabot and Jasinska are, as ever, firm in their advice that any man wanting to have a child needs to clean up his diet and strive to achieve optimum health at least three months before trying to conceive.

In contrast, gains in comprehension, vocabulary, and conceptual knowledge are harder to measure, at least in young children, and harder to achieve.

«But in this case, if the data is good and it shows a strong correlation — it's not predictive, but it's an indicator — if I step in and try to do the best for that child, then at the end of the 12 years of school, at least the system and the families can feel like we did the best we could to let every child achieve.»

And, according to international comparative tests (PISA — Programme for International Student Assessment, PIRLS — Progress in International Reading Literacy Study, and TIMMS — Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study), «children with at least two years of preschool achieve much higher scores at age 15 than those who attend no preschool or only one year».

In 1995, the year before initial implementation, 57 percent of children at Key Stage 2 (what would be the end of 6th grade in the United States), achieved at least a level 4 in their overall English assessment.

Amid reports that overweight pupils underperform academically — data obtained from at least six studies by Scottish PHD student Anne Martin show that children who are obese at 11 achieve lower than average marks in maths, science and English at 16 — and findings that there is a higher incidence of serious childhood obesity in London than New York, figures like the London Health Commission's Lord Darzi are claiming that the issue is «at breaking point.»

• GCSE pupils who want to achieve at least grade 4 • Parents who wish to support their children who may feel less confident with algebra.

Last year's Reception cohort achieved 100 % GLD with 56 % of children exceeding in at least one curriculum area.

A Department for Education spokeswoman said: «Schools will be held to account either for ensuring all children make sufficient progress from reception to the end of primary school, or for ensuring at least 85 % achieve the expected level in reading, writing and maths.

Thomas Jones Primary School in Kensington and Chelsea had the highest proportion of children on FSMs (77 per cent) in our group, but all of its 30 pupils achieved a level 4 in each of the SATs, and made at least two levels of progress.

Divorced spouses must still be parents, and this means they are still connected to each other and will be the rest of their lives — or at least until the children achieve a majority.

Why Fathers Matter for Child Development One of the biggest challenges to achieving full equality in the care of young children — at home or in child care settings — is the widespread belief that women are more «natural» caregivers, at least in part because women give birth to and breastfeed baChild Development One of the biggest challenges to achieving full equality in the care of young children — at home or in child care settings — is the widespread belief that women are more «natural» caregivers, at least in part because women give birth to and breastfeed bachild care settings — is the widespread belief that women are more «natural» caregivers, at least in part because women give birth to and breastfeed babies.

Thus, it is telling to note that the studies that Professor Nock credits with employing good measures and good research designs produce the same clear and reassuring results as the studies he purports to invalidate: children of same - sex parents achieve developmental outcomes at least

Although there may be no such thing as a perfect divorce, most states attempt to achieve that ideal, at least where children are concerned.