Sentences with phrase «of local school children»

The zoo is visited each year by thousands of local school children as well as tourists and visitors from around the world.

They are mostly proud of the local school their children attends, and they respect the teachers.

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To offset lost education taxes during a decade in which children of gigafactory workers are certain to boost enrollment, Tesla agreed to donate $ 37.5 million to local public schools starting in 2018.

Eight local Edward Jones Financial Advisors teamed up on behalf of school children, clearly demonstrating their commitment to family values.

Charles was a clever child, and after local schooling, he and a friend were sent at the very early age of fifteen to University College London, in Gower Street.

Second, I would ask the candidate to abolish the local property tax as the source of school funding and instead fund the public education of every American child out of the federal income tax.

Charters are public schools that boards of local citizens can apply to open and run under state oversight, and that any child can attend.

Despite a massively negative consultation on the subject last autumn, and the contrary assurances to parliament by the Education Secretary, Ed Balls, local authorities are to be given a duty to monitor the education of all home - schooled children.

Clearly, traditional Christmas carols can't be sung (there's a large university near where I live that attracts graduate students from all over the world, as well as a substantial local Jewish community, and probably not more than 60 or 70 percent of the children at the school are from even nominally Christian households), so most of the singing is of songs of the saccharine - secular genre — songs like «White Christmas.»

If the use of guns near schools may impair the performance of students, and the federal government bears responsibility for the success of children in the schools, why couldn't the federal government simply take over control of the local schools?

We remark the curious fact that just as, thirty years ago, the churches had about succeeded in excising Bach and Palestina from the ken of the new generation at the moment college and high school choirs were finding them — and church schools, afraid of the recondite reaches of the doctrine of the Lord's Supper, beheld their children at school singing «0 Magnum Mysterium» and «Ave, Corpus Verum» — so, too, the preaching fashion, having become in large part the holy branch office of the local psychiatric clinic, is now confronted with «J.B.,» «The Fall,» «Christmas Oratoria,» and the considerable theological imagery in «Four Quartets.»

(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.

If a local congregation announced today that it planned to close its church school because it did not see the Christian education of children as the legitimate task of a church, that announcement would, I suspect, produce no little criticism and consternation.

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.

In light of varying perspectives about this appointment, Christian leaders will need to think afresh about their relationship to local public schools, where more than 90 percent of America's children are educated.

Sometimes the projects are run by local partners, so that children may not realize that the lunch they get at school is there because of the partnership World Vision has with the school.

For about a century now, no other issue in American Jewish life has evoked as much emotion and energy at the local level as has the struggle to keep religion out of their children's schools.

When you sign up for this program, 15 % of any purchase you make from MightyNest in the future goes back to the school of your choice (it can be your child's school or simply a school that is in your local area).

A total of 50 children attend the school, of which a third come from the local community and not from the estate.

The Australian Beverages Council, representing the local energy drinks industry, has responded to research published in the journal Academic Pediatrics from the Yale School of Public Health which links the consumption of energy drinks to a more likely risk of hyperactivity and inattention symptoms in middle - school chiSchool of Public Health which links the consumption of energy drinks to a more likely risk of hyperactivity and inattention symptoms in middle - school chischool children.

Local school children have been invited to participate in many of the in - store activities like Pinewood Derby Car Racing and coloring contests and departments throughout the store will show their love of potatoes by hosting food sampling stations featuring different Idaho ® potato recipes.

In September 2015, children and parents joined the Accolade Wines team to formally open the local pre-primary school following the addition of four new classrooms, two store rooms and a number of toilets, as part of the company's ongoing support of the Kayamandi community in Stellenbosch.

Developed by a local high school culinary student in partnership with Medical City Children's Hospital in Dallas, El Fenix's Kids Fit Menu allows kids to build their own meals by choosing from an array of delicious, low - fat / calorie entrées and sides, along with a glass of apple juice.

They share sports programs, of course, but also require players complete «field ministry» missions like service projects or trips feeding the homeless, giving clothes to the poor or delivering school supplies to local children.

I love your post, you have described exactly how I feel at the moment.My older 4 children went to our local school, but now my son has just turned 5 and will attend kinder next year I am really considering homeschooling.I just have this niggling feeling in the back of my mind that our local school is just not right for him.I understand completely where you are coming from.I'm going to check out your other post and my options too.Good luck with your decision.

Communities often feel a sense of pride when their local school makes the list, and parents may believe that their child's attendance at one of the ranked schools will help with college admissions and / or future jobs and careers.

I had the pleasure of interviewing local chef and author Toni Piccinini about her book, The Goodbye Year: Wisdom and Culinary Therapy to Survive Your Child's Senior Year of High School and Reclaim the You of You).

This is how it works: • The Children's Centre manager identifies relevant agencies already dealing with vulnerable families — for example schools, health visitors or a local homeless families unit • A simple form summarising the facilities and activities available at the Centre, and asking for a parent's contact details and a signature, is created • The manager / staff at the other agency agree, as part of their usual data recording protocols, to ask relevant service users to fill in the form.

Over the course of 2008 - 09, 42 fathers, grandfathers and other male carers in County Durham joined in with a local initiative to get family men more involved in their children's learning — during the children's transition from St Helen Auckland Children's Centre and local nurseries to starting «big school» at St Helen Auckland Primarychildren's learning — during the children's transition from St Helen Auckland Children's Centre and local nurseries to starting «big school» at St Helen Auckland Primarychildren's transition from St Helen Auckland Children's Centre and local nurseries to starting «big school» at St Helen Auckland PrimaryChildren's Centre and local nurseries to starting «big school» at St Helen Auckland Primary Sschool» at St Helen Auckland Primary SchoolSchool.

Maybe children won't benefit any less if they stay in their local communities, but when they get to the high school level and know what sport they want to concentrate on, then they should travel to national tournaments in hopes of being seen by college scouts.

Local Resources for Parents The Unicorn Bereavement Center (part of Duke Hospice Bereavement): dhch.duhs.duke.edu/bereavement-services The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the Suicide Prevention Resource Center's «After a Suicide: A Toolkit for Schools»: sprc.org/sites/sprc.org/files/library/afterasuicidetoolkitforschools.pdf The Duke Child and Family Study Center: dukemedicine.org/locations/duke-child-and-family-study - center

On the fifth day of my gentle parenting experiment, I took my daughter to the local children's museum with her friends while her brother was at school.

In other parts of the country, where children grow their own vegetables and schools partner with local farmers, the children are happy to eat food that they feel connected to, and develop eating habits that will make them healthier and happier for the rest of their lives.

Other: The Education Service Center Child Nutrition Program (ESC / CNP) Specialist in the Department of Agriculture reviewed all local wellness policies adopted by the school districts in their region and completed a Wellness Policy Checklist to verify all local wellness policies meet the minimum federal requirements.

With the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004, PL 105 - 268, the U.S. Congress established a requirement for all local agencies (including public and nonpublic, as well as Residential Child Care Institutions) with a federally - funded National School Lunch Program (NSLP).

What we'd like to see with the passage of the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act is a concerted effort by schools — whether at the state or local level — to find the best practices that work for their system, their resources, and the type of programs they already have in place.

Contact the special education department of your local school system, which is required by law to provide assessment and services for children age 3 and older with special needs.

Additional accountability requirements: N.J.S.A. 18A: 33 - 15 to 18 (2007) requires new school districts participating in any of the federally funded Child Nutrition Programs to submit their local policies to the state Department of Agriculture for a compliance check with the state's NJ School Nutrition / Wellness Policy (2005), which contains policy content requirements that go beyond Sectioschool districts participating in any of the federally funded Child Nutrition Programs to submit their local policies to the state Department of Agriculture for a compliance check with the state's NJ School Nutrition / Wellness Policy (2005), which contains policy content requirements that go beyond SectioSchool Nutrition / Wellness Policy (2005), which contains policy content requirements that go beyond Section 204.

Other: A White Paper on Health, Nutrition, and Physical Education produced by the Department of Education entitled, Healthy Children Ready to Learn (2005), highlights the need for local wellness policies and outlines steps the Department is taking to accelerate their adoption and implementation, including collaborative efforts, promoting a coordinated school health approach, and supporting state legislation supporting wellness policies.

If your child has the day off from school, so are many of the local teenagers.

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

If you are an Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics member interested in a new career that will provide you with an avenue for enhancing the lives of children or a parent (dietitian) looking for ways to work with your local school district, SNS DPG is an excellent resource and networking opportunity.

Currently, Lindsey works as the State Agency Director of Child Nutrition Programs and Food Distribution for the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) in Washington, DC, overseeing school breakfast and lunch, CACFP, summer meals and other various local level laws, including the DC Healthy Schools Act and Healthy Tots Act.

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.

Friday is pizza day and the children have the choice of buying pizza brought in from a local pizzeria near the school.

Thanks to support from the Walmart Foundation, Children's Hunger Alliance provided grants totaling $ 275,000 to 41 local school districts throughout Ohio to support the expansion of school breakfast in the 2015 - 2016 school year.

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.

Others may decide to make use of the local schools if and when the child wants to go there.

Home is generally the easiest place to throw your child's party, but if you have a lot of guests or your home isn't the ideal place for hosting, you might want to try arranging an event at an indoor play area, a park, a local recreation center, a gymnastics school, a kids» museum, a church hall, or a restaurant.

However, as local, state and federal governments manage strained budgets, continued investments in the health and well - being of our children and our schools is not a given.