Sentences with phrase «at boarding school»

The reception was held at a boarding school in this HUGE, gorgeous room.

You knew that they had a daughter, her age and that she was away at boarding school.

With that boost, Fan went to high school at a boarding school a day's walk away over rough mountain country.

A stay at a boarding school can help your teen get back on track academically.

Students at a boarding school take their meals in a dining hall.

His work at a boarding school which drew pupils from across the country convinced him that the maths problem was nationwide, and that a mobile school was the best way to address it.

Private school teachers are also expected to be available outside of normal class times for extra help, especially at boarding schools.

For instance, in one story, a young drug addict finds help at a boarding school and later is able to help others recover from addiction.

I was a freshman at boarding school, and my mother was concerned that I wasn't eating enough, so she sent an adviser to spy on me at every meal.

It's a smart, well - made little film set in about an interracial romance at a boarding school.

That is especially true at boarding schools, where teachers have significant benefit packages that include complimentary housing in addition to a salary.

At boarding schools particularly, students experience a host of social intricacies, and sometimes they need a counselor to help them navigate what can become murky social waters.

Years of struggle, depression, and PTSD followed the terrible incident, until he recovered with the help of two dogs at the boarding school that he attended.

Wackford Squeers (Jim Broadbent), a grotesque, half - blind schoolmaster, is willing to take Nicholas as a new teacher at his boarding school for boys.

In this prequel to Wein's award - winning Code Name Verity (2012), 16 - year - old Julie has returned to her grandfather's Scottish estate after her year at boarding school in 1938.

Jenn's non-legal experience includes stints as an undergraduate student recruiter - advisor, UBC history teaching assistant in Southeast Asia and Los Angeles, teacher at a boarding school in northwestern Massachusetts, and intern at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

I then spent 4 years at a boarding school where I fell in love with Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

Prior to her work in California, Melnick was a Stride Rite Public Service Fellow in Bolivia, where she taught at a boarding school for indigenous women.

When their headmistress proves to be at a loss on how to prevent her school from financial ruin and closure, a group of girls at the boarding school hatch a plan to save their beloved learning institution.

For example: Coaching sports, advising extracurricular activities, directing plays, supervising a dorm at a boarding school, etc..

The exhibition was created in collaboration with a team of four visitors with different disabilities, including Elena Fedoseeva, who studied at a boarding school for the blind.

Marty learned to cook from his mum, a cordon bleu - trained phenom and loving parent of six, and most likely developed a taste for real and delicious food as a counterpoint to the uninspired, grey foods served at boarding schools in England.

Being shut up 24 hours a day behind decaying Victorian stone walls with terrible food and violent members of staff must remind them of their time at boarding school.

She considers how people try to escape from such troubles; from boys at boarding school who turn their attention to games or work, to the Buddhist practice of living in the present moment.

We do not find out why he names the machine «Christopher» until the film, in one of its best and most affecting sequences, revisits his days at boarding school in the 1920s.

ROSARIO + VAMPIRE SEASON II · by Akihisa Ikeda · Available April 6th · Rated «T +» for Older Teens · SHONEN JUMP ADVANCED Imprint Average human teenager Tsukune accidentally enrolls at a boarding school for monsters — no, not jocks and popular kids, but bona fide werewolves, witches and unnameables out of his wildest nightmares!

They go through with barely a smile through the milestones of a marriage, a pregnancy, and the first night at boarding school — when the next generation can or must stand on their own.

We were friends at boarding school, and in the same hockey team: I was the centre - forward and she my fast and -LSB-...]

The teen is currently at boarding school at Eton College, where he's part of the Combined Cadet Force.

His schooling, which had started in «a one - room schoolhouse with a chunk stove» was continued at a boarding school in Manchester and then at Burr and Burton Seminary and Military College in Norwich.

That I was not aware, while working out my philosophy of religion, how much I was repeating some aspects of the paternal train of thought was partly a consequence of the facts that, from the age of fourteen on, I was much away from home at boarding school or college, in the army, studying in Europe, as instructor or research Fellow at Harvard, or otherwise occupied, all of which meant that I was seldom exposed to Father's sermons.

About 30 missionary kids abused between 1950 and 1990, many at boarding schools in Africa or Asia, received a formal apology from Presbyterian Church (USA) leaders in October.

In the past, some personnel at boarding schools were placed there because they were failing as missionaries, unable to learn the language or fit in with the culture, Wilcox said.

I also think here of the passage from C. S. Lewis» Surprised by Joy in which he reflects on the homosexuality he witnessed at his boarding school in his adolescence.

At least 50 children were sexually and physically abused at a boarding school in Senegal, Africa, in the 1980s, according to a new report.

No one at boarding school could sort me out, and no therapist has helped me — but a close friend introduced me to you last summer and ever since I have completely upheaved my diet.

The first time I had unsweetened yogurt was at a boarding school run by French nuns.

She was twice named the outstanding female athlete at her boarding school, St. Paul's, in Concord, N.H.

At a boarding school like IMG, kids have the added responsibility of taking care of themselves while managing their time efficiently.

I was at least 6 months out of nursing bras, but still somehow wearing what looked like it could have been standard issue at a boarding school or culinary institute, had they issued bras along with the uniforms of white coats and chef hats.

She was homesick at boarding school and left at 15 and was sent to finish her education in Paris, where she says she learnt to speak perfect French, while also picking up German and learning the rousing marching song of the German army.

He added that government had also spent over 4billion Naira to feed students at boarding schools across the state.

The attacks occurred at a Nigerian military base and adjacent police barracks, not far from where the Islamist insurgents shot and burned to death 59 pupils at a boarding school in February.

So I went to the United Kingdom where both my brother and sister had attended university and restarted my A-levels at a boarding school whose ethos drew on the importance of physical activity just as much as academic achievement.

«So at a boarding school, being a «teacher» does not really encompass the job; it truly is more of a parental role.»

«She's a fabulous mother,» says Katrinka, a history teacher and crew coach at a boarding school in upstate New York.

Miroslav Slaboshpytskiy's drama The Tribe tells the story of Serhiy (Grigoriy Fesenko), a shy teenage boy who's enrolled at a boarding school for the deaf.

Through three separate timelines, it is first and foremost a biopic of Turing - his unhappy childhood at boarding school in the 1920s, his efforts to break the Nazi enigma code at Bletchley Park in the 1940s, and the investigation in to his homosexual behaviour in the 1950s - when such things were still a crime.

Back from a semester at boarding school in Laramie, Katy is happiest among the hills and horses.