Sentences with phrase «of schoolchildren from»

While hiking in the San Bernardino Mountains, in Southern California, late last month, a class of schoolchildren from Big Bear Elementary School and their guide spotted a rare and hopeful sight high above in the trees: two bald eagle parents rearing a weeks - old chick.

Around the same time Lukwa left Telegraph Cove with a group of schoolchildren from Avalon Adventist Jr Academy in Port Hardy.

IN 1995, a group of schoolchildren from Minnesota discovered that half of the frogs they found in a pond were deformed.

A group of schoolchildren from Sheffield have been learning about airguns, gundogs and conservation with BASC this month.

In a presentation to the school board in January 2011, CPS officials credited the breakfast program with improving the «intellectual, emotional, social and physical development» of schoolchildren from low - income families.

Four years later, the breakfast program had grown to serve 199 public elementary schools, and Esaian urged the school board to take it districtwide, crediting the program with improving the «intellectual, emotional, social and physical development» of schoolchildren from low - income families.

Not exact matches

Schoolchildren searching for whitehouse.com on the internet found porn in the late 1990s, and «the bottom line is it's almost impossible to protect yourself from this kind of stuff,» said Reese, a Jesuit at Georgetown University.

When he opened a crusade in his home town of Charlotte, North Carolina, in the fall of 1971, schoolchildren, government workers and store clerks got a holiday, as the governor of the state, U.S. senators from North and South Carolina and the secretary of the treasury showed up to pay tribute.

As he moves from the ordinary suburban world of his abusive foster parents into the enchanted realm of the Hogwarts School, the bullying intensifies from nasty to mortally dangerous (a progression that U.S. schoolchildren have witnessed in real life).

He had the fun of going round with a group of other schoolchildren singing from house to house — the traditional way of earning something to help defray living costs.

Schoolchildren from a community in the Mosquitia region of Honduras, site of a Rainforest Alliance community forestry enterprise.

Staff from GreenPalm were joined by other local businesses to use their expertise to give a group of 80 Hull schoolchildren a lesson in global trade, during an event intended to help them learn more about International business.

Other politicians are taking part, including those from the veggie - friendly state of California, where LA has already joined Meat Free Monday, and schoolchildren at public schools have also recently done so.

In recent years, the fight against ocean plastic pollution has gone from a preoccupation of marine scientists to a movement embraced by everyone from schoolchildren to Queen Elizabeth II, galvanized by images of trash - strewn seas and sea turtles choking on plastic straws and other consumer castaways.

A British - born son of Yemeni immigrants, Hamed is a huge draw in England and in his parents» homeland, where his face is plastered on everything from schoolchildren's composition books to postage stamps.

One day last week, in the old part of Prague, schoolchildren from the small town of Klatovy were taking a tour of the big city.

With the IAAF World Indoor Championships returning to her home city of Birmingham from March 1 - 4, the Olympic 400m bronze medallist marked the 100 days to go milestone by helping to launch a ticket campaign offering 100 local schoolchildren the chance to attend the Championships for free.

From the outset, they had two purposes: to help dispose of surplus agricultural commodities owned by the government as a result of price - support agreement with farmers, and to help prevent nutritional deficiencies among low - income schoolchildren.»

For more than 60 years, Drumlin Farm has given schoolchildren, families, and visitors from around the region and the world opportunities to experience first - hand the wonders of nature and learn about how our food is grown.

Our camps reach over 11,000 children and their families from 76 percent of cities and towns in Massachusetts, and we offer programs serving schoolchildren in 62 percent of the state's cities and towns.

I also wanted to hear directly from workers who have the thankless job of serving millions of schoolchildren every day.

Schoolchildren from his former primary school, St Columba's, sang a psalm, and when his old friend, the businessman Brian McBride, concluded his eulogy by saying: «That's what you were Charles, one of us,» the 500 - strong congregation broke into affectionate applause.

The report also includes a study of schoolchildren aged 13 - 14 from four EU countries which found exposure to alcohol sports sponsorship through viewing a major football tournament was linked to 70 % increased chance of underage drinking.

It's a cruel thing to do to children, not to mention the moms and dads who see charters as escapes from the traditional public schools that are failing most of the city's other schoolchildren.

With the introduction of the new curriculum in September, the new Academy of Food website (www.academyoffood.morrisons.com) will help schoolchildren from 7 to 11 and 11 to 14 years old discover how our food is produced.

He also believes that public safety is a huge priority, and wants to meet with all of the schoolbus drivers to get their input on what they see as potential hazards or dangers on the roads as they drive schoolchildren to and from their homes.

Transit officials, once again teetering on the edge of a financial abyss, said they will be forced to shut down the W and Z subway lines and 25 bus routes, carry out layoffs and pay cuts and take free MetroCards away from a half - million schoolchildren.

Critics of the layoffs said savings could better come from eliminating consultant contracts, and that cutting support staff would disproportionately affect workers and schoolchildren in high - needs areas.

Education Secretary Michael Gove also criticised the NUT's ballot, which was held in 2012 with a turnout of 27 %, telling BBC Newsnight schoolchildren needed protection from «politically - motivated industrial action».

Ann Senghas of New York's Columbia University, US, and colleagues studied three generations of deaf schoolchildren from the Nicaraguan capital, Managua.

You could even take a note from 1963 schoolchildren, who put big boxes over their heads to see a projection of an eclipse.

The group's models could also help interpret data from future clinical trials that evaluate the effectiveness of booster shots in schoolchildren, «as well as predict the potential impact of new vaccination strategies,» he said.

«Our data suggest that BMI should be monitored in schoolchildren extra closely during puberty for the early identification of individuals at high risk of suffering from cardiovascular disease in the future,» says Professor Claes Ohlsson.

In the early 1900s, an intensive campaign eliminated the worms from the intestines of U.S. schoolchildren and spawned the formation of the U.S. Public Health Service.

Schoolchildren may also dissect parts of animals such as eyes, kidneys or hearts obtained from butchers or may sometimes dissect dead animals, such as fish or rats.

Analyzing survey data from almost 6,000 UK secondary schoolchildren (aged 11 - 16) from communities with traditionally low science engagement, the authors investigated who participates in science learning outside of the classroom.

The rapidly - growing specimen is eventually named Calvin by a group of American schoolchildren live - chatting with the astronauts from Earth; fitting his hand into flexible gloves that allow him to reach into its isolation tank, a smitten Derry interacts with it as if it's a new kitten.

You can see it in Steven Soderbergh's experimental «Bubble» from 2006, a love triangle set in a small - town doll factory featuring non-actors, and in Zhang Yimou's 2000 drama «Not One Less,» about the struggles of schoolchildren in a rural Chinese village played by... schoolchildren in a rural Chinese village.

As is the case today, from 1940 to 1960 teacher educators sought to protect the interests of schoolchildren by socially engineering «desirable» characteristics in their teachers.

After covering the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City and Pennsylvania for ABC News, Baldrick brought solace to youngsters touched by these tragedies with «The Children of 9 - 11 Wall of Hope,» a display of artwork and writing by children from the victims» families and schoolchildren across Pennsylvania.

The Greatest Show on Earth, it seems, is now in the business of preventing American schoolchildren from becoming the largest kids on Earth.

On Friday 16th March, the school hosted 400 schoolchildren from other local schools who participated in a range of activities.

It was notorious for many reasons: First, the court ordered enormous state and city expenditures, intending to attract white schoolchildren from the suburbs to the Kansas City schools so as to provide the minimum number of white children that proponents of desegregation considered necessary for a desegregated or «unitary» school.

California, Pa. — Their lunchboxes shiny from lack of use, schoolchildren here returned to classes last week after an 82 - day teachers» strike — the longest in Pennsylvania history.

A new study of Connecticut schoolchildren challenges the traditional view of dyslexia as a permanent disability that is easily distinguishable from other kinds of reading problems children encounter in their elementary - school years.

Simon Harbridge, CEO of Stone Group commented, «We were amazed by the response to the competition from schoolchildren and the variety of entries blew us away.

In a book - length study to be published this summer, researchers from the Bank Street College of Education describe a group of schoolchildren floundering academically and dropping out — or being expelled — at disproportionately high rates.

What should we take away from News Corp.'s recent announcement that it is writing off losses stemming from its digital education wing Amplify, ceasing its production of tablets for schoolchildren, and selling off its educational software and assessment services?

Activities will include large - sale outreach programmes, such as a # 1 million investment from Shell in the interactive Tomorrow's Engineers Energy Quest programme for thousands of schoolchildren, a children's book on engineering from publisher Usborne, and behind the scenes tours for families.

For millions of American schoolchildren, it is a nightmare from which they can not wake, a trial visited upon them each year when the law requires them to take reading tests with little preparation.