Sentences with phrase «by pupils at»

In July 2011, MK Gallery Project Space will present an exhibition of ceramic work created by pupils at Leon School during Garcia's residency.

«Analysis of educational performance across OECD countries has concluded that a higher proportion of academically selective schools is not associated with better performance of a school system overall, according to results in the international PISA tests taken by pupils at age 15 in 2012.»

At that time, ministers said they wanted the tests to be sat by pupils at the end of year 6.

The risk of presenting scripts by pupils at different ages is that it leads us to assume that pupils will automatically improve just by getting older.

We were very impressed with the games and apps created by pupils at All Saints Primary, and they should be very proud of their achievement as a top coding school.»

We were very impressed with the games and apps created by pupils at Ashmead, and they should be very proud of their achievement as a top coding school.»

In a pilot scheme where every child at primary schools in Newham and Durham was offered a free meal, they were more likely to eat a better diet at school, do significantly better in class — with an average of two months more progress by pupils at key stages 1 and 2 — and be less fussy about what they ate at home.

This could be used by pupils at the end of teaching each topic / sub-theme in order to test / check understanding and to practise translation skills or used for wider translation purposes.

Not exact matches

By looking at pupil dilation, ear twitching, small head movements and other indicators of cat emotions, the feline - feeling researchers found cats do get really excited around their owners, yet they choose to express it in extremely subtle, essentially imperceptible ways.

The Catholic Young Writer Award is organised annually for pupils at Catholic schools across Britain by the Catholic Union.

If we are struck by Francesca's courteous speech, we note that she is also in the habit of blaming others for her own difficulties; if we admire Farinata's magnanimity, we also note that his soul contains no room for God; if we are wrung by Pier delle Vigne's piteous narrative, we also consider that he has totally abandoned his allegiance to God for his belief in the power of his emperor; if we are moved by Brunetto Latini's devotion to his pupil, we become aware that his view of Dante's earthly mission has little of religion in it; if we are swept up in enthusiasm for the noble vigor of Ulysses, we eventually understand that he is maniacally egotistical; if we weep for Ugolino's piteous paternal feelings, we finally understand that he, too, was centrally (and damnably) concerned with himself, even at the expense of his children.

At the age of fifteen, he became a pupil in a school at Niesky, which was run by Moravian brethreAt the age of fifteen, he became a pupil in a school at Niesky, which was run by Moravian brethreat Niesky, which was run by Moravian brethren.

He and one of his former pupils, Fr Stephen Dingley, a PhD in Astronomy, both spoke at the October conference, Catholicism and the Challenge of Science, organised by Faith Movement, which I attended on behalf of New Directions.

One of Shakespeare's fellow pupils, Robert Debdale by name, was executed as a priest in 1586; while studying for the priesthood Debdale shared classes with Thomas Cottom (executed in 1582), whose brother John Cottom was a schoolmaster at Stratford and taught Shakespeare until, under mounting anti «Catholic pressure from the Crown, he fled home to Lancashire, a Catholic stronghold.

As early as World War II, the political leaders of the Free French forces had known that France would have to face up to the question of whether it was going to allow the decline of a system of schools preferred by the parents of one - sixth of all French pupils, or whether it was going to accept the hazards of open political discussion aimed at developing a new and creative solution.

A total of 16 pupils were affected by the school's policy of «grade exclusion» because they didn't achieve at least three B - grades in their first year tests.

Will County State's Atty. Jeff Tomczak charged that Katherine Keylor and Mark Haller, who oversaw the state's school lunch program, «recklessly endangered» the welfare of pupils and teachers by repeatedly ignoring warnings that the food had been contaminated during an ammonia leak at a storage facility in St. Louis.

State education officials and federal regulators knew a year ago that the breaded chicken tenders blamed for sickening 40 pupils and teachers in Joliet last month might have been contaminated by an ammonia leak at a storage facility in St. Louis.

The school plays are frequently cited by pupils as a highlight of their years at the Waldorf School of Garden City; the tears and laughter experienced together in preparation and on stage are cherished moments many pupils remember for the rest of their lives.

They justify the items served at lunch and alternative foods by saying that cutting down on plate waste and assuring that pupils at least get something to nourish them outweighs other nutritional concerns.

Give special consideration to the youngest pupils at secondary schools, who might be intimidated by the noise and rush of lunch hour.

The School Food Plan imagined a new golden age for school food, where well - trained, fulfilled and empowered cooks and caterers serve flavourful, fresh food, enjoyed by at least 70 % of all pupils.

«Pupils and students of public schools have been at home for over four weeks due to the strike embarked upon by civil servants and teachers.»

The BHA opposes state funding of Steiner schools because of concerns about pseudoscience on the curriculum (including scepticism of evolution and vaccinations and support for homeopathy), homeopathy being given to pupils by the schools» «anthroposophical doctors», and the fact that a number of private and at least one state school has opted out of providing vaccinations.

«By the time they're 16 poorer pupils are performing at a level around 40 per cent below their contemporaries.»

The proportion of pupils studying RE at GCSE has increased by almost 50 per cent in the last 15 years.

«The education policies of the previous Coalition Government, continued by this one, premised on extensive and excessive autonomy for schools and the obsessive pursuit of deregulation, have rapidly increased covert selection, often targeted at pupils from materially deprived backgrounds.

Grammar schools are state secondary schools, which select their pupils by means of an examination taken by children at age 11, known as the «11 Plus».

It goes on to say that «the Department has received concerns from two parents surrounding the treatment of their mixed - race child at a Steiner school, including racist abuse by other pupils which the school allegedly failed to act upon despite repeated complaints, and the use of racial epithets by teachers.

The BHA has long - standing concerns about Steiner schools including pseudoscience on the curriculum (including scepticism of evolution and vaccinations and support for homeopathy), homeopathy being given to pupils by the schools» «anthroposophical doctors», and the fact that a number of private and at least one state school has opted out of providing vaccinations.

In several of the cases of bullying complaints, there is also a concern about the way the school has handled the allegations, failing to investigate accusations of bullying and physical abuse by teachers in some cases... «In four Steiner schools, the Department has received complaints about physical abuse from teachers towards pupils, including spitting in a pupil's face, making sexual innuendos and throwing a rounders bat at a pupil.

Class sizes would be cut, the Lib Dems promise, by a programme targeting # 2.5 billion at struggling pupils.

Aside from lowering the voting age by a year, the bill would also require all pupils in the ninth grade or higher to receive at least eight full class periods of civics education and mandate that every New York high school provide each student with a voter registration form the year they turn 17.

People want teachers to have the time to be able to dedicate to each pupil - that is why we'll deliver smaller class sizes by capping them at 25.

«So far, some teachers have been suspended at the school after they were implicated of perpetrating the trend by the pupils during investigations.

GCSE examinations are taken by most pupils at the end of compulsory school education (year 11) in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

A report published in December 2011 by the Department for Education looked at the impact of a rising birth rate on pupil numbers and how that could affect class sizes and educational outcomes.

«This is an addition to too many pupils and staff being put at risk by the failure of the Coalition to tackle seriously asbestos in our schools.

At present schools can receive # 488 for each pupil who is eligible for free school meals, under a measure introduced by the coalition government last year.

Most Primary Schools in the Local Government Areas hitherto occupied by Boko Haram were completely destroyed, the Universal Basic Education Board is to undertake reconstruction of all primary schools, renovate existing schools, supply most needed educational materials and of course feed the primary school pupils across the State and provide more furniture to enhance teaching and learning at the primary school level» Shettima said.

The interviews given by leading Lib Dem MPs over the weekend suggest that their narrative at the next election will go something like this: «We have protected the poorest and most deserving by raising the personal tax allowance, providing the biggest ever increase in the state pension, and giving schools a «pupil premium» - more money for every child on free school meals.

The Assembly member for the area, Benjamin Richard Akoto, the representative for the Chief of Manchie, Samuel Nii Omarboe, the Deputy Director of Finance and Administration at the Municipal Directorate, Miss Beverly Dansoah Bartels and the Headmaster of the school, Kingsley Adobah, lauded the initiative by the bank, and charged the students and pupils to ensure the proper maintenance of the borehole.

More to the point, says the Empire Center, «School spending in New York [state] was driven primarily by instructional salaries and benefits — which, at $ 14,769 per pupil, were 114 percent above the national average of $ 6,903, the census data show.»

The lives of pupils and teachers at the Ejisu state experimental school are threatened by a dilapidated classroom block.

Kret speculates that the involuntary changing of pupil size in response to looking at someone else may be a subconscious attempt to reinforce bonding by showing you are interested in them, or share an emotional state.

The slim, vertical pupil probably helps ambush hunters stalk prey at night by making objects at a distance from the snake's hideout appear sharper, says Brischoux.

By 2002, at 22, he was teaching pupils not much younger than he was.

In a healthy eye, light entering the pupil is focused by the lens and then passes through the vitreous humour — the jelly like central region — to the retina at the back of the eyeball.

He took a closer look at this eye reflex by showing volunteers cartoons from the New Yorker magazine and using an eye - tracking device to monitor their pupil dilation and eye movements.

Humor psychologist Richard Lewis (no relation to the comedian) was intrigued by past studies showing that a person's pupils dilate in proportion to the funniness of a cartoon he or she is looking at.