Sentences with phrase «few academy kids»
We all know we've got a few academy kids coming through who are talented aka Iwobi, Reine Adelaide and several loan players who can give the 1st team a run for their money....
http://www.justarsenal.com/ Not exact matches
What is even more sad is so few kids come through the youth academies because players arrive from all over the world desperate to get their hands, not on the iconic red and white jersey, but the salary that comes with being a pro footballer in the prem.
Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.
To me, the solution to the attrition issue, whether it's at a KIPP middle school or the Promise Academy middle school, is the Harlem Children's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first few years.
And while the answers may not be as satisfying and / or as cut - and - dried as many of us would like (especially those who do have kids), the journey — while a bit long and convoluted at times (it is sort of a «Gone Baby Gone» meets «The Silence of the Lambs «-RRB--- it is nevertheless fascinating and populated with terrific performances, so don't be surprised if the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences comes calling with a few nods next January.
According to Shaun Hopper, Primary Teacher, St Patricks Catholic Voluntary Academy, Sheffield (Maths, ICT and Teaching and Learning Leader) «I got some kids to play on it in a few maths lessons and they absolutely loved it... I have already recommended it to the children in my class as App of the Week.»