Sentences with phrase «by our fifth birthday»

We have already supplied 850 schools with the training and equipment and our aim is to reach 1,000 schools by our fifth birthday.

Studies indicate that by their fifth birthday many of the highest early achievers from deprived backgrounds have been overtaken by lower achieving children from advantaged backgrounds.

It does not automatically follow that we should therefore set a height standard that all children must meet by their fifth birthday — especially if we are going to label all those who come up short as failures or slow or developmentally disabled, and then use those labels in turn to label their schools and their teachers failures as well.

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For the fifth year, Great American Cookies will also be offering a free birthday cake cookie on April 18 for tax filers those who stop by participating stores.

Because children spend so many hours each week at the Educare center, beginning at such an early age, the program has, more or less by default, a significant amount of control over their development up until their fifth birthday.

At current trends, 60 million children will die before their fifth birthday between 2017 and 2030, half of them newborns, according to the report released by UNICEF, WHO, the World Bank and the Population Division of UNDESA which make up the Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation.

«It,» Mr Baldry writes, «has helped reduce the number of children who die before their fifth birthday by 4 million since 1990 and the number of people receiving HIV medication has also increased tenfold as a result of aid assistance.»

GUARDIAN.CO.UK — Aug 7 — The Guardian's online dating site, Guardian Soulmates, has celebrated its fifth birthday by launching a beta version mobile site.

The Guardian's online dating site, Guardian Soulmates, has celebrated its fifth birthday by launching a beta version mobile site.

Adapted by Emma Donoghue from her own novel, the film begins on the fifth birthday of Jack, who lives with his Ma in a 10 × 10 shed where she has been held as a sex slave for seven years.

So while parents and caregivers should support and nurture these systems through fun, pre-reading exercises such as making up rhymes, singing, and playing with language, they shouldn't feel that it is a reflection of their caregiving skills if their child hasn't mastered learning to read independently by the time the fifth birthday party rolls around.

Legally all children in England have to be in full - time education by the term after their fifth birthday.

He was obsessed with time lately: how much time had elapsed between one event and another, how much time had gone by since the beginning of the world, since he had written his last Henry story, since he had given Joan a story to read, since he began reading the latest big book he was reading, how little time was left before he was late to a friend's house, before he started fifth grade, before his tenth birthday in late December, before he was all grown up.

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The Met Fifth Avenue is presenting «David Hockney,» a major retrospective of work by the British artist in honor of his 80th birthday.

A couple of weeks ago, Andrew Revkin celebrated the fifth birthday of his Dot Earth blog by writing a post examining the ways he could improve it.

A collection of essays about improving access to justice... Closing the Justice Gap: some new thinking about an old problem... produced by the legal research company Jures this month, and published by the Solicitors Journal in association with the Young Legal Aid Lawyers was launched at our fifth birthday.

Juan's history with family and institutions included being abandoned by his mother shortly after his fifth birthday, expelled from the Dade County schools at age II, injured in a gang fight that left him physically disabled by the time he was 12, and rejected by most social service agencies due to his repeat offender status.

Unmarried couples are three times as likely to break up by a child's fifth birthday as those who are married, she said.