Sentences with phrase «many at boarding schools»

The teen is currently at boarding school at Eton College, where he's part of the Combined Cadet Force.

Now she was in high school at a boarding school in Pebble Beach, Calif., a two - hour drive away, and suddenly he started showing up to watch her run.

Chen, who came to the United States at age 17 to study at a boarding school, says he is not daunted by the skepticism about BlackBerry's ability to bounce back from its myriad problems.

His schooling, which had started in «a one - room schoolhouse with a chunk stove» was continued at a boarding school in Manchester and then at Burr and Burton Seminary and Military College in Norwich.

That I was not aware, while working out my philosophy of religion, how much I was repeating some aspects of the paternal train of thought was partly a consequence of the facts that, from the age of fourteen on, I was much away from home at boarding school or college, in the army, studying in Europe, as instructor or research Fellow at Harvard, or otherwise occupied, all of which meant that I was seldom exposed to Father's sermons.

I imagined the incredible culture shock which most of the village youth must have experienced on their arrival at the boarding schools.

I also think here of the passage from C. S. Lewis» Surprised by Joy in which he reflects on the homosexuality he witnessed at his boarding school in his adolescence.

At least 50 children were sexually and physically abused at a boarding school in Senegal, Africa, in the 1980s, according to a new report.

No one at boarding school could sort me out, and no therapist has helped me — but a close friend introduced me to you last summer and ever since I have completely upheaved my diet.

The first time I had unsweetened yogurt was at a boarding school run by French nuns.

She was twice named the outstanding female athlete at her boarding school, St. Paul's, in Concord, N.H.

At a boarding school like IMG, kids have the added responsibility of taking care of themselves while managing their time efficiently.

A stay at a boarding school can help your teen get back on track academically.

Being shut up 24 hours a day behind decaying Victorian stone walls with terrible food and violent members of staff must remind them of their time at boarding school.

At the time, though, he was at boarding school.

Among the items she has gathered on the table this morning is a sheaf of letters her father wrote to her at boarding school in Switzerland.

For instance, in one story, a young drug addict finds help at a boarding school and later is able to help others recover from addiction.

She considers how people try to escape from such troubles; from boys at boarding school who turn their attention to games or work, to the Buddhist practice of living in the present moment.

«She's a fabulous mother,» says Katrinka, a history teacher and crew coach at a boarding school in upstate New York.

I was a freshman at boarding school, and my mother was concerned that I wasn't eating enough, so she sent an adviser to spy on me at every meal.

She's also a committed vegetarian: What started as an aversion to boiled meat served at boarding school has since evolved into a conscious and values - driven decision in the name of not only health but the environment, too.

Five years at boarding school, followed by house shares at University and whilst living in London, have resulted in resulted in years of unavoidable bathroom sharing for me, and most of my friends.

At boarding school, students live among their teammates and coaches and are constantly in a community of learning and growing.

The same is true of last year's Outside Providence, a disappointing movie about finding yourself (and love) at boarding school.

At a boarding school in the south of France in 1962, Maite, Francois, Serge and Henri explore friendship, sexuality and love at the end of the Algerian War.

Miroslav Slaboshpytskiy's drama The Tribe tells the story of Serhiy (Grigoriy Fesenko), a shy teenage boy who's enrolled at a boarding school for the deaf.

Through three separate timelines, it is first and foremost a biopic of Turing - his unhappy childhood at boarding school in the 1920s, his efforts to break the Nazi enigma code at Bletchley Park in the 1940s, and the investigation in to his homosexual behaviour in the 1950s - when such things were still a crime.

Back from a semester at boarding school in Laramie, Katy is happiest among the hills and horses.

She was in the same class as Princess Diana at boarding school and, according to her, was «expected to marry a duke.»

The lives of two high school students will be linked together when they're forced to stay at their boarding school over the winter break and an evil presence starts to stalk them.

We see flashbacks of Turing's early years when at boarding school where he fell for a boy named Christopher, who introduced him to the art of cryptography, as well as glimpses of his final years, pre-conviction, as he sits in an interrogation room with a detective who suspects high treason rather than homosexuality.

The third part of Turing's life explored here is his time at boarding school (awkwardly transitioned to with an on - the - nose line of dialogue).

Wackford Squeers (Jim Broadbent), a grotesque, half - blind schoolmaster, is willing to take Nicholas as a new teacher at his boarding school for boys.

Discipline and rigid rules are part of the atmosphere at the boarding school.

Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer - breeding Sámi girl exposed to the racism of the 1930's and race biology examinations at her boarding school she starts dreaming of another life.

When their headmistress proves to be at a loss on how to prevent her school from financial ruin and closure, a group of girls at the boarding school hatch a plan to save their beloved learning institution.

It may be unfair to saddle Frears with all the inadequacies of this Cook's tour — even though it's subtitled «A Personal History of British Cinema,» records some of his memories of movies and of being caned at boarding school, features his gabfests with Hollywood colleagues (critic - screenwriter Gavin Lambert, the late director Alexander Mackendrick, and directors Michael Apted and Alan Parker), and shows him briefly at work on Mary Reilly.

It's a smart, well - made little film set in about an interracial romance at a boarding school.

The opening film for the LFF this year, this beautiful period drama, adapted from Andrew Hodges» book The Enigma by debut screenwriter Graham Moore, travels between Turing's formative days at boarding school and miserable existence in the 1950s, centring on his unique and crucial work defeating the Nazi's Enigma encryption device during WWII.

Growing up in Caracas, Venezuela, she had parents who believed strongly in education and sent her to high school at a boarding school in Connecticut.

Born in 1915 and 1914, respectively, they both grew up in Mississippi — my father in the small rural town of Utica, where his parents both taught at a boarding school, the only school for blacks within a 200 - mile radius; and my mother in Vicksburg, where her father was an Episcopal priest and her mother a schoolteacher.

Speaking at the Boarding Schools» Association's conference, Davenport said: «The reason I have said I thought this will work really well is because it is going to touch much more lives, more broadly.

That is especially true at boarding schools, where teachers have significant benefit packages that include complimentary housing in addition to a salary.

However, this might be difficult, if not impossible, given the tangled nature of DAT's relationship with DET and ongoing difficulties at the boarding school.

Teachers at boarding schools generally earn less than those at private day schools because part of their salary is in the form of room and board, which accounts for about 25 - 35 % of their income.

Skills and flexibility for contributing to an independent school community in additional capacities, such as coaching sports, leading extracurricular activities, serving as a club adviser, or supervising in a dorm at a boarding school

That figure is even higher at boarding schools, with nearly 37 % of students receiving financial aid.

At boarding school, teachers are so much more than just classroom teachers.

Private school teachers are also expected to be available outside of normal class times for extra help, especially at boarding schools.

He took a sabbatical at a boarding school in Carmel, in the shadow of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.