Sentences with phrase «local school children who»

Her Royal Highness will also tour the gallery's Learning Studios and meet local school children who have been participating in creative projects and activities with the gallery, joining David Liddiment, Chair of The Hepworth Wakefield Trust and architect David Chipperfield for afternoon tea, which offers the chance to meet supporters and staff from the gallery.

Not exact matches

Guns have been strictly controlled in the United Kingdom for the past few decades, spurred in large part by the 1996 Dunblane massacre, when 15 children and their teacher were killed by a local man who walked into a school in the Scottish city armed with four hand guns and began shooting.

(132) The energy bursting from this story is admirable, but this is a long way from the problems of an averageCatholic family in Britain, who are more likely to be worrying about what the local primary school is teaching their children, rather than the best way to shoot a rat.

Last year St Columba's Lochside Mission and Outreach youth programme provided more than 150 lunches daily to local children after church staff learned that the 95 per cent of children in one local primary school, who receive free school lunches and breakfasts during the school term, were at risk of hunger during the summer holidays.

A family with a child who does not have an IEP but who might qualify for one should contact their local public school system about setting the IEP process in motion as soon as possible, since it takes time for the public school system to determine each student's eligibility.

If she slept late and lazed around the house, you'll have a very different child care provider from one who went for an early - morning jog, visited her grandmother or volunteered at a local nursery school.

This provides support for local farmers while putting local foods right in the cafeteria of school children who then try locally grown healthy foods.

Having done this kind of work myself for many years in San Francisco, I can vouch for how frustrating it can be, and yet, as a parent or guardian who really wants to make a difference in nutrition and health for an enormous number of children, there is really no better opportunity than serving on your local school nutrition parent advisory council.

Be picky about who you work with Designers do it (Donna Wilson recently worked with local school children to design Aberdeenshire Tartan), pop stars do it (Pharrell has practically built a career on it), Rob Ryan and Tatty Devine did it, politicians do it (remember the Coalition?)

If you really want to improve school meals, here are 10 effective ways to support the hard - working school nutrition HEROES who are reshaping local and national food systems, teaching kids about where food comes from, and feeding millions of children their best meals of the day — every day — in thousands of schools across our country.

These are really intended for secondary school children aged 11 - 14, but may well be suitable for a home educated child as young as eight or nine who enjoys and understands maths.There are many interesting and well - produced Key Stage 3 maths text - books available online and at local bookshops.

If your city isn't holding an official event, they may be able to put you in touch with businesses who've expressed interest in giving away school supplies to local children.

Spunky and outgoing 6 - year - old who attends a local Christian private school where I teach elementary age children.

Many non-traditional educational options exist for children who would otherwise be enrolled in local public schools.

«Child Find» can be contacted through the local school system in all communities or through your State's early intervention coordinators, who can be located on the Web at http://www.nectac.org/contact/ptccoord.asp.

Local authorities may have between 6 and 600 + home educated children «on their books», i.e. children who are known to the authority, usually because they have been taken out of school.

When a local choir wanted to host a fundraising dinner at a Warrick County school in Indiana, school nutrition staff members who had children or grandchildren in the choir or had been in the choir themselves volunteered their time for the event.

(2014) Directs each local school board to adopt a policy to set aside, in each school in the school division, a non-restroom location that is shielded from the public view to be designated as an area in which any mother who is employed by the local school board or enrolled as a student may take breaks of reasonable length during the school day to express milk to feed her child until the child reaches the age of one.

They have two children, Mali and Ifan, who both attend local schools.

Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.

Oneida County Youth Bureau Director Robert Roth said youth volunteers from The Boys and Girls Club of the Mohawk Valley, Compeer of the Mohawk Valley, Cornell Cooperative Extension, The Center for Family Life and Recovery, The Neighborhood Center, Thea Bowman House, Utica Municipal Housing Authority, Utica Safe Schools / Healthy Students / Underground Café and the YMCA of the Greater Tri-Valley performed community service that included assisting in a bicycle giveaway program for Utica children, collecting and distributing clothing to the children who reside in Utica's Municipal Housing Authority locations, soliciting donations, collecting money and walking in Utica's version of America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk, the Multiple Sclerosis Walk and the American Cancer Walk, collecting food, preparing and serving meals at local food pantries, collecting donations and goods to aid animals at the Stevens Swan Humane Society and other community activities.

These actions don't even begin to address the needs of child care providers or the thousands of undervalued state, local government and school employees - many work for much less than $ 15 per hour - who take care of our kids, maintain our roads, water and sewer systems and do a whole lot more necessary work.

These actions don't even begin to address the needs of child care providers or the thousands of undervalued local government and school employees - many work for much less than $ 15 per hour - who take care of our kids, maintain our roads, water and sewer systems and do a whole lot more necessary work.

«Let the local teachers and parents and school boards, the people who care the most about their local school children, make decisions about standards, curriculum and assessments,» Hawkins said.

«Let the local teachers and parents and school boards and people who care the most about their local school children and the make decisions about standards, curriculum and assessments,» Hawkins said.

«It's important that the [26 Broadway] space be used by a school serving local [students], rather than children from other neighborhoods,» said Silver, who has strongly advocated for Millennium to expand.

Other determinants, including local labor market conditions, parental education and family structure appear to have a greater impact on child poverty levels, according to Myungkook Joo, assistant professor in Rutgers School of Social Work, who authored the study.

I missed experiencing the greatest awe - inspiring wonder that nature has to offer because our local school officials — who felt eclipse watching was too dangerous for children and did not want to be held liable in the event of an injury — had issued overly cautious warnings.

They are directed at policy - makers and local authorities, who are able to undertake actions but they can also support construction companies, school staff, children and their parents in their aim to make our schools healthier.

Palm Beach Kids Yoga Camp is the brain child of Stephanie Dorr, a local children's yoga instructor, who has achieved much notoriety from her work with children in several local schools teaching yoga.

States that want to help parents become more savvy education consumers should consider contracting with third - party validators who can provide parents better information about their children's schools, and also about other resources that are available to families through organizations like Communities in Schools, which works to develop partnerships between schools and other student service providers in the locaschools, and also about other resources that are available to families through organizations like Communities in Schools, which works to develop partnerships between schools and other student service providers in the locaSchools, which works to develop partnerships between schools and other student service providers in the locaschools and other student service providers in the local area.

Districts throughout the state that remain open are telling families who have evacuated to their areas to register children in local schools while the regions hit hardest by the storm work to reopen their schools.

F40 chair, Councillor Ivan Ould, who is also Lead Member for Children's Services in Leicestershire, said: «F40 has become fundamental to the debate regarding fair funding for all school children and local authChildren's Services in Leicestershire, said: «F40 has become fundamental to the debate regarding fair funding for all school children and local authchildren and local authorities.

In this new report, which was funded by the Joyce Foundation and released by Education Sector, the presidents of 30 local unions in six states speak candidly about their views on issues including reforming teacher pay, coping with the No Child Left Behind Act, new competition from charter schools, and the challenges of leading multiple generations of teachers who don't always see eye to eye.

Both the campaign and ongoing communication will continue to acknowledge the efforts of all involved in the education of children, while demonstrating MTA's unique points of difference, including 220 - local staff, in - house customer service team and the largest educational resource field force — who visit schools and early childhood centres across Australia and New Zealand every day.

Our volunteers come from all walks of life, they may be parents of children who attend the school, they may work for a local business that is keen to give back, or they may be students keen to gain practical new experiences and share their skills.

As school board member George Giles was quoted, the initiative «brought in a lot of people who didn't have children, who in some cases felt like they didn't have a stake [in the local schools].»

«The caprice of local political conditions can not be permitted to harm the educational opportunity of a child,» the five - member panel wrote in its Sept. 15 report to Franklin Circuit Judge Ray Corns, who declared the current school - aid system unconstitutional last May.

A group of parents who send their children to a Portland, Ore., high school that is scheduled to close at the end of this school year say they were angered and shocked by the city school board's decision last summer to «take away» their local school.

State and local educators who are working to implement the recommendations of the California School Readiness Task Force reported on their progress this month at the meeting of the National Association for the Education of Young Children.

The Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Nest program at New York University has shown that by providing training and support to teachers who serve children on the autism spectrum, those students can be successfully mainstreamed in local public schools.

I wrote my poems for children in my local primary school who asked me to make a website and put the poems onto it so that they could both listen and read the poems at home.

I want every child to have quality school choices, I want stronger (and broader) external standards, I want more open paths to becoming an educator, I want empowered school leaders (really empowered, in ways that would also break the union stranglehold) who are compensated like CEOs, I want super pay for great instructors and no pay for incompetents, and I want a complete makeover of «local control.»

A local woman — who moved in 1989 to Raleigh with her young children from Lexington, Massachusetts — heads Assignment by Choice, an organization that attacks the pupil assignment policies that keep the Raleigh schools in socioeconomic (and racial) balance.

The project will initially work with schools within the district who have volunteered to take part, families and the local community to help support children to have a healthy weight and be more active through play.

F40 chair, Councillor Ivan Ould, who is also Lead Member for Children's Services in Leicestershire, said: «Broadly speaking the proposals appear to present a fairer method of funding our schools but f40 will want to carefully assess the full implications, including the issue of local flexibility and details about the transitional arrangements, before responding in detail to the consultation.

Fully 68 percent of adults who themselves know a home - schooled child believe that such children should have the option of taking selected classes at local public schools, and another 61 percent support allowing them to participate in sports and extracurricular programs, as compared with 48 percent and 51 percent, respectively, of adults who do not know a home - schooled child (Q. 15, 16, 17).

«Parents who find out on Monday which primary school their child will attend can be reassured that the government is doing more than any before to ensure all parents have the choice of a good local school.

It is expected to provide access to specialist facilities such as sensory rooms, soft play areas to children with SEND who attend local mainstream primary schools and resourced provision on a sessional basis during school hours.

We have alumni who work in public policy organizations, serve on local school boards, practice education law, and fight for equity in school finance or, as physicians in low - income communities, provide quality health care for children.