Sentences with phrase «at children from»

Hi, the mini club is aimed at children from 4 to 12 years, although under 4s can take part if accompanied by an adult.

And it uses funds from the pupil premium - a pot of money aimed specifically at children from low - income homes - to support families of children that are at risk of underachievement.

«I am delighted to see governments in Westminster, and now Cardiff, targeting additional money at children from disadvantaged backgrounds.»

Aimed at children from 5 to 11 years of age, the literacy hour spurned the passive (or quiet) approach to reading used in many classrooms in the United States and Britain and brought a great deal of precision to the task of instruction, mainly with a tightly organized and strictly managed program.

The resource is aimed at children from Years 5 to Year 9 and it provides an opportunity to combine Information Technology with Geography.

The research by leading early learning scientists looked at children from a wide variety of backgrounds, including those from advantaged and disadvantaged families, and those who had suffered brain injury.

However, researchers found that this birth order effect changed dramatically when looking at children from families whose parents were already entrepreneurial.

Although Obama labels his plan «universal,» it would be targeted at children from families below 200 percent of federal poverty guidelines.

On Monday, Facebook launched a new product aimed at children from 6 to 12 years of age.

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The research — conducted by the University of Luxembourg, the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign and The Free University of Berlin — analyzed data from 745 children in Luxembourg from 1968 to 2008.

Either way, his comments follow a trend of famous figures — from entertainers to sports figures — taking a hard stance against their children playing football at any level, especially in light of the revelations about long - term effects from football concussions that have surfaced in recent years.

As well, the poll showed that those with children ages four to 10 were much more likely to borrow money from friends and family (39 per cent) than couples with older children (28 per cent), likely showing they feel they need a larger cash flow or savings to feel comfortable at that stage in life.

Her husband went from hiding in the garage at kids» birthday parties to happily volunteering to take a dozen screaming children bowling, while Rosenfeld herself grew steadily more inward - looking.

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Tracey Gordon, who taught Tsarnaev in fifth and sixth grade at a Cambridge school, described him as an exceptionally intelligent child who easily mastered English after arriving in the United States from Russia and «was eager to learn whatever school had to offer.»

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I also asked Chesky to weigh in on the recent tumult at Uber, a company often lumped into the same bucket as Airbnb as the poster children of the «sharing economy» and which has been dealing with extensive fallout from accusations of an aggressive and sexist culture and a leaked video showing CEO Travis Kalanick berating an Uber driver.

A few years ago, Penny Chapman noticed she was receiving letters from parents saying their children couldn't eat ice cream at birthday parties because of a severe nut allergy.

His family moved to Canada from Turkey when he was a child and, with the funds from the sale of a redesigned buzzer system for quiz show Reach for the Top, Lazaridis studied engineering at the University of Waterloo.

This fall, our team members in and around Chicago, Boston, and Philadelphia volunteered with Cradles to Crayons, a national organization that provides children from birth through age 12 with essential items — all free of charge — to help them thrive at home, at school, and at play.

After experiencing years of abuse from family members and friends, Winfrey ran away from home and bore a child at age 14 who died shortly after birth.

Get exposure at the Tech Talent Day pitch sessions, and hear informative speeches from top tier employees at companies like The New York Times, Save the Children, Amazon.com, Tumblr and more.

While a hungry child is less likely to be able to focus, most of the research looks at kids who are part of school breakfast programs, which means the majority of those kids come from underprivileged backgrounds and may not be getting enough to eat in general.

Aside from «Rio 2» in April and «How to Train Your Dragon 2» in June, the only other title aimed at families was the Angelina Jolie movie «Maleficent,» which was too dark for most young children.

To help keep coping tools at the forefront, Sandberg and her children wrote down their «family rules,» such as «It's O.K. to be sad and to take a break from any activity to cry.

His wife had just given birth to a baby girl — their first child — and he knew he wanted to take a few months off from his job as an IT manager to spend some time at home.

Talking about the past, while painful at the time, provides children a sense of where they came from and builds resilience over time.

Stagias at Francis Financial educates his clients about credit both by reviewing their credit reports with them annually and by having an event for their children, aged from 12 to 30, that discusses the proper use of credit cards, good debt versus bad credit, and other topics.

Jack in the Box almost collapsed in 1993 after four children died from eating contaminated and undercooked meat at that chain.

A study of vocabulary growth in children from eight months to six years old shows that the size of spoken vocabulary increases from zero words at age eight months to 2,562 words at age six years.

In total, 15 billion pages of data were stolen from at least 144 U.S. universities, 176 universities across 21 foreign countries, 47 domestic and foreign private sector companies, the U.S. Department of Labor, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the states of Hawaii and Indiana, the United Nations and the United Nations Children's Fund, the Justice Department alleged.

The videos are thorough and well - produced so children can grasp concepts and learn through an online format that allows participation at any time from anywhere.

Children appeared to fear Nikolas and would stand far apart from him at the bus stop near their homes, a former neighbor, Rhonda Roxburgh, told The Miami Herald.

«When you write out an idea from start to finish in simple language that a child can understand (tip: use only the most common words), you force yourself to understand the concept at a deeper level and simplify relationships and connections between ideas.

At the same time, benefits that target certain workers — such as those with college - aged children — can lead to resentment from those who can't take advantage of them.

Why He's One to Watch: Biswas, 26, has raised $ 25 million from Google and Sequoia Capital; has won an award at Davos; and has elicited praise from Nicholas Negroponte, the head of the One Laptop per Child program.

Just like her children don't always agree with Rossi O'Donnell's plans, people at work often will have a perspective different from your own.

He alluded to Trump's withdrawal last year from the Paris climate accord, saying «we do not always agree on the solution,» but stressed «the fate of our children is at stake.»

From 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., children 12 and under can enjoy a free «Scary Face Pancake» at IHOP.

Shoppers drop off their children at Ikea day - care centers, dine at Ikea restaurants and select from among thousands of products ranging from leather sofas to soup ladles.

Few are more at risk in that catastrophe than the children of eastern Aleppo; prevented from going to school or even hospital, as both are deemed too unsafe, they live under constant fear of attack.

Lloyd Blankfein's path tothe pinnacle of finance nearly rivals for degree of difficulty that of his legendary predecessor Sidney Weinberg, who was one of eleven children of a Brooklyn bootlegger and started working at Goldman Sachs as a gofer shining spittoons, in 1907, a few years removed from elementary school.

The company has particularly targeted this campaign at developing countries like India where, according to the World Health Organization, more than 1,000 children under five die from diarrhea every day — the highest rate in the world.

This gap is slowly closing, as data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that women with children now make slightly more than women without kids under 18 at home, which wasn't the case a year ago.

May 1 - Toy maker Hasbro Inc has agreed to acquire children's entertainment and merchandising franchises, including the characters of the superhero TV show Power Rangers, from Saban Properties LLC in a deal valued at $ 522 million in cash and stock, the companies announced Tuesday.

And I didn't want to look at my children down the road and say, «Listen, your dad got paid a bunch of money to walk away from his principles.»

I thought about the loss that my child had suffered without even knowing it of going from thinking she was at five, or four at the time, a Fortune Most Powerful Woman, to asking me what a bimbo is.

Always be polite to everyone you meet during the day, from your spouse and children to your co-workers, to the checkout person at the grocery store.

It's typical for mothers to get time off from work for up to six weeks after having a child, but at Google it's another story.

The child of a rocket scientist at NASA, Ann is a Palo Alto native and has been steeped in technology startups from when she was a teenager.