Sentences with phrase «around the middle school»

Last year, the program was instituted in middle schools, where all students are now provided lunch at no charge, but the mayor said that the results of the program were underwhelming and that instead of expanding it to elementary and / or high schools, the city would first look to do more outreach around the middle school offering and see if there is a noted improvement in year two.

About the institute's Middle School Matters initiative, she says, «Middle schools are always left out, and it's because no one really wants to be around middle school — age kids.

At the very end of the day, we met as a community for the grand finale — a ball cage full of water bottles that had been discarded around the middle school.

She and her mentor, then principal Mary Laurie, were given a tall order: Turn around a middle school in which a 13 - year - old and a 15 - year - old had shot each other in a schoolyard incident.

While widespread consensus may be hard to achieve on whether middle schools work for the students enrolled within them, most people can agree on one thing: Regardless of one's zip code, there is a healthy amount of trepidation around middle school and the middle school years.

Not exact matches

We're not only supporting companies, we're also building a community around us, opening our space to middle - and high - school students in an effort to create more entrepreneurs and makers.

These are the types of friends who have stuck around in my life from childhood to middle school, high school and today.

I do look a bit like I was in a middle school food fight with oats all over my face, neck and chest; and the dogs are following me around smacking their lips, sniffing the air.

When I was middle school though, I always wanted the Christmas cups from Starbucks that I would see people carrying around.

«I have it all in an envelope at my office at the middle school and I'll add it all up and text it to you but I think I'm around 600,» Hearlihy said.

Larry Bird chose my high school to do his student teaching after the ISU Sycamores run to the NCAA championship game and several of us from orchestra kids got to shoot around with him at what would have been our fourth hour orchestra class which was delayed half an hour for one semester while the teacher had younger students from the new middle school built together with the high.

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.

It's been a funny couple of weeks, I'm sort of struggling to get my head around the fact it's nearly the end of the school year and my middle child will be off to Junior school and my baby going into Year 2.

School Nutrition Association's «State of School Nutrition 2011» survey (http://www.schoolnutrition.org/Blog.aspx?id=15955&blogid=564) found that the typical lunch period clocks in around 25 minutes for elementary schools and 30 minutes for middle and high schools.

«A lot of kids in middle school are struggling around that time thinking, oh, math and science aren't for me, especially girls,» says Kristen Vogt, museum manager of education and events.

I'm not sure how sensitive these sensors are supposed to be, but if the general public's boobs move around as much as mine do, those bras are going to feel less like support and more like your first boyfriend after the middle school dance.

That study assessed children in middle school and parents seem to be more comfortable setting limits around younger children.

Typically, voice change begins somewhere around age 12 or 13, or during the middle school years, which can make the experience a tad embarrassing for the child.

One Pennsylvania teacher may have had his / her mind wrapped so far around all things Fifty, that they thought giving a word search based on the movie was a great way to exercise the brain power of a class full of middle school students.

ShareRamesh has been coaching field hockey at the local middle school for around 5 years, a while before we had kids.

A middle - school teacher described how pupils now seemed to think that «losing it», even to the extent of throwing chairs around the room, was normal behaviour.

If you happen to find yourself in a tricky situation, though, try to meet your grade - schooler in the middle: «You can't chase Aunt Sarah's cat around, but maybe you can fill his food bowl.»

Eventually, I passed my 11 + and was sent to a grammar school, where instead of being the brightest in my class, I was one of many clever girls and I hovered somewhere around the middle, in terms of achievement.

By contrast, last school year, the district's food service staff fed more than half of Milton high school students, 70 percent of elementary and middle school students and around 100 staff members regularly.

But now, the Baltimore eighth - grader's tray features beds of greens and fruits and vegetables that are available at her middle school through a salad bar option that is sprouting up in school cafeterias around the city.

We found this didn't occur until middle school around 8th grade.

So, right there, with my middle schoolers (who are God's nosiest creatures) listening in, I had a total fake, upbeat conversation with Bean about how silly Gus was being and how I was sure he was just going to sit around watching TV and eating peanuts all day long while we were gone.

Preparing for Middle School: Grade 8 No getting around it — the 8th grader will rebel passionately and frequently.

I had an interest in woodworking from back in middle school wood shop and messed around with it on and off for a number of years.

The Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) is a survey of health - risk behaviors conducted in middle and high schools every two years in Washington, DC and around the United States.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

«The NYPD initiated a yearlong investigation that dismantled a drug dealing network that peddled crack cocaine less than a block from a middle school and instilled fear in local residents in and around the Sterling community,» Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said in a press release Thursday.

Alhazen's advice can be seen in action today around the world, from middle school science fairs to the Large Hadron Collider.

The assessment materials, used to measure students» understanding of the sciences in middle and early high school, will be amplified by Naiku, a Minnesota - based company whose assessment platform reaches teachers around the country, and a Canadian consortium that includes McGill University in Montreal.

The study of nearly 40,000 youth around the country also found that e-cigarette use among middle and high school students doubled between 2011 and 2012, from 3.1 percent to 6.5 percent.

The fair will accept submissions from students around the world in three age categories, covering kids from middle through high school.

Any active scientist can judge one of the thousands of middle and high school science fairs that take place around the country each year.

AMES, Iowa — Seventeen middle school team representatives from 11 schools around Iowa converged on the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory on Feb. 22 to learn about hydrogen fuel - cell technology and to build hydrogen fuel - cell model cars.

Concealing the base of the pony by wrapping a section of the hair around it adds polish to the hairstyle you associate with your middle school days.

I get to jump around, yell, clap, dance, jig, dougie, hop, and sing at the top of my lungs because they're middle - schoolers and they don't care.

I did like to play around and make websites for myself when I was in middle school, so I mostly had to catch up with the new technology.

This stuff is going around more than a rumor in a middle school...

I work in several different middle schools, so I do a bit of bouncing around!

Then middle school came around and they had the prettiest, most bubbly, note passing handwriting?

I'm a middle school language arts teacher in Denver who is looking for someone that is genuine, kind, caring, and fun to be around.

The tight - knit but tense atmosphere around the upper - middle - class Jacobs clan, however — parents Pat (Edie Falco) and Alan (John Turturro), adult daughter Dana (Slate) and still - at - home high schooler Ali (Abby Quinn)-- is emotionally timeless.

Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (PG for mature themes, mild epithets and pervasive rude humor) Kitchen sink comedy based on the James Patterson novel of the same name revolving around a jaded teen (Griffin Gluck) who, with the help of his BFF (Thomas Barbusca), tries to break every rule in his new school's Code of CoSchool: The Worst Years of My Life (PG for mature themes, mild epithets and pervasive rude humor) Kitchen sink comedy based on the James Patterson novel of the same name revolving around a jaded teen (Griffin Gluck) who, with the help of his BFF (Thomas Barbusca), tries to break every rule in his new school's Code of Coschool's Code of Conduct.

And perhaps that's where I'm missing the point: Maybe Eastwood intended to bore us with the drivel of middle school antics and traipsing around Europe so that when the pivotal incident arrived we would clearly see that within all «ordinary» people is the potential to rise to exceptional circumstances.

As the movie gets truly underway, Cameron (Cam) has taken the girls out of school for an afternoon and is running around in a bathing suit by a lake in the middle of the winter.

As Ross used to tell his fourth grade students, «In middle and high school, when all of your friends are messing around on social media, I want you to be using it to grow your own businesses!»