Sentences with phrase «even out of school hours»

As the equipment is available in the playground for children to access in break and at lunchtime (and indeed even out of school hours if they wish), this feeds in to the second criterion.

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Deborah: I just applied for the Healthier U.S. Schools Challenge — it was hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours — I can't even tell you how many hours of documentation and filling out things for that!

Missing out on even one hour of sleep a night could have major consequences for a child, possibly lowering their cognitive abilities the following day and possibly hurting their academic performance at school or acquisition of knowledge at home.

Meanwhile discussions elsewhere reached consensus on disability rights, taking competition out of the NHS, tribunal fees, legal aid, zero - hours and short - hours contracts, agency workers, immigration, local government funding, housing, the Middle East, the minimum wage, the living wage, Royal Mail, the railways, science and technology, mental health, fracking, animal welfare, Lords reform, reducing smoking and consumption of alcohol, fats and sugar, reaffirming all - women shortlists, youth services, careers advice, sexual and relationship education, and even the 11 - plus (recognising that selection at age 11 damaged education for all children, but stopping short of abolishing existing grammar schools).

Let's face it — teenagers are on social media in school and out of school, even if their parents have told them they can't be, and even if the school has rules about being on phones during school hours.

There are many ways that schools try to encourage parental involvement, from welcoming them as classroom volunteers, being available out of hours, live chat sessions, even child - parent cookery classes, and so on.

Forty - five per cent of respondents said their school does not have a policy in place to deal with parental contact out - of - hours, meaning that many are expected to respond to emails and texts from parents during evenings and weekends.

Thanking a former teacher for great math lessons is an excellent start, but it's even better if a student can point out the extra strain of getting students to focus during the very last hour of the school day.

In urban schools students come and go all day.No 45 minutes is like the time that preceded it or the time that will follow.Urban schools report 125 classroom interruptions per week.Announcements, students going, students coming, messengers, safety aides, and intrusions by other school staff account for just some of these interruptions.It is not unusual for students to stay on task only 5 or 10 minutes in every hour.Textbook companies and curriculum reformers are constantly thwarted by this reality.They sell their materials to schools with the assurance that all the students will learn X amount in Y time.They are continually dismayed to observe that an hour of school time is not an hour of learning time.Many insightful observers of life in urban schools have pointed out that it is incredibly naive to believe that learning of subject matter is the main activity occurring in these schools.If one observes the activities and events which actually transpire — minute by minute, hour by hour, day in and day out — it is not possible to reasonably conclude that learning is the primary activity of youth attending urban schools.What does the process of changing what one does every 45 minutes and even the place where one does it portend for fulfilling a job in the world of work?If one is constantly being reinforced in the behaviors of coming, going, and being interrupted, what kind of work is one being prepared for?

Students were out of luck, even though the District's Healthy Schools Act of 2010 requires that public schools and public charter schools provide middle - schoolers with at least 225 minutes (3.75 hours) of physical education eacSchools Act of 2010 requires that public schools and public charter schools provide middle - schoolers with at least 225 minutes (3.75 hours) of physical education eacschools and public charter schools provide middle - schoolers with at least 225 minutes (3.75 hours) of physical education eacschools provide middle - schoolers with at least 225 minutes (3.75 hours) of physical education each week.

Since the amount of reading that students do during out - of - school hours is a predictor of their in - school academic achievement, one of the focuses of the evaluations was the percentage of students that had accessed the programs outside of school (since the solutions are cloud - based, students could access them anytime or anywhere — even without an internet connection).

There are a number of stereotypes surrounding gamers: such as that of the male anti-social, under - hygenic basement dweller toiling away the hours on Dungeons & Dragons fantasy games; or the ultraviolent shooter player who is a bit «off», also an outsider, one round of Doom / Halo / Call of Duty from wiping out his high school / college / post office; and even in the more enlightened...

«If one parent works crazy hours in the evening and the other is able to care for the children when they are out of school, it does not make sense for a parent to find a third - party caregiver rather than the other parent,» he says.