Sentences with phrase «lessons at old school»

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When my oldest started Kindergarten, I was distressed to see that many of the lessons of personal protection I was teaching at home were being undermined at school where candy was given as a reward, class parties overloaded children with junk food, and fundraising involved peddling candy and cookies.

He is less concerned here, unlike, say, «Secrets & Lies» and «Vera Drake», with following a driving narrative than with minutely observing Poppy through her relationships with others, whether it's the kids she teaches at her primary school, her repressed driving instructor (Eddie Marsan, excellently playing a heavy - duty bag of hang - ups), her close friend and flatmate Zoe (Alexis Zegerman) or her older, more settled colleague Heather (Sylvestra Le Touzel), whom she joins at flamenco lessons after work.

Among the students at school that day was an 11 - year - old violin and piano prodigy and YouTube sensation, who otherwise commutes to Los Angeles for music lessons.

Abraham Lincoln: An Internet Buddy Activity Peggy Chauncey Cramer, who teaches at Hamilton Elementary School in Kentwood, Michigan, submitted this week's «Internet buddy» lesson in which younger and older students team up to learn about Abraham Lincoln.

The Cowboy Life VaReane Heese, who teaches at Springfield (Nebraska) Elementary School, submitted this week's lesson in which students choose from a wide variety of activities aimed at «spurring» interest in cowboy life and the Old West.

Nearly one in four 11 - 16 year olds at state schools in England and Wales indicated that their parents had paid for them to have extra help with their lessons.

But Mr. Martinez and his colleagues, to their credit, chose to take on the challenge, tapping into lessons learned from the now decade - old KIPP Through College Program aimed at matching low - income minority students with the schools where they are most likely to succeed.

At my old school, we had to prepare all our schemes and lessons, there were not enough books, no one cared whether I was teaching or storytelling, and breaks and lunch were extremely long.

While our blended learning work at Aspire Public Schools is just over a year old and we haven't figured it all out yet, we've learned many lessons about implementing blended learning worth sharing with others just starting this...

At public and private schools, scouting troops, special needs groups, local libraries, various community youth organizations as well as adult organizations, the Humane Society of Greater Miami teaches the young and old appropriate lessons about kindness to animals, empathy, responsible pet care and the causes and results of pet overpopulation.

Children age 12 and older take ski lessons at the Snow Sports School.

Let your first lesson in history start at The Oldest Wooden School House.