Sentences with phrase «primary school children about»

Sports stars have helped relaunch the Scottish Government's Eat Better Feel Better campaign — telling primary school children about their favourite snacks and the benefits of healthy eating.

The poster project, which is sponsored by Co-op insurance, aims to inspire and engage primary school children about the need for drivers to slow down so children can walk and cycle to school safely.

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Over half of black children in public primary and secondary schools are concentrated in the nation's twelve largest central city school districts, where the quality of education is poor, and where whites constitute only about a quarter of total enrollment.

Prime Minister David Cameron's comments in April about the influence of Christianity in Britain included praise of his children's CofE primary school.

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All primary school children should be taught about the importance of regularly setting money aside so they do not grapple with debt in the future, a group set up by the Archbishop of Canterbury has said.

(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.

One school asked the inspectors to leave, saying that it upset and unsettled the children to have a stranger enter the (primary) classroom and demand that the children talk about something they were uncomfortable with.

The Tudors — All about Tudor times, produced for children at primary schools, around ages 7 - 11.

Maybe you have a child about to finish primary school or maybe one who's about to graduate university — I would love to find out how you feel as your child gets ready to their next step towards their future.

Giving up that final nap really does vary from toddler to toddler as some seem to not need their daytime nap from the age of about 2 but other children can go on to still need a nap until they start primary school.

I have never forgotten taking a large group of primary school children to the Arsenal stadium one evening, where Arsène Wenger gave them a very interesting talk about how he had learned English.

This is about ensuring that future generations of children, unlike me, incidentally, who was not taught grammar at primary school...

«Furthermore, we know that in the early years of primary school children are very curious about «where babies come from».

Commenting on primary school admissions, Chris Keates General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK said: «Too many parents today will be facing deep anxiety about finding a place in a primary school for their children.

Too many parents today will be facing deep anxiety about finding a place in a primary school for their children

While P.S. 130 has strong test scores, TriBeCa parents were concerned about the school's stricter rules, including a requirement that students must wear uniforms, and parents also worried their children would have trouble making friends because 70 percent of incoming kindergarteners at P.S. 130 do not speak English as a primary language.

In his research (carried out with Professor Julian Elliott from Durham University) Dr Gibbs asked a sample of primary school teachers to complete two questionnaires about children who were having difficulty with learning to read.

With teaching facilities in Long Island and New York City, it brings a hands - on approach to learning about biology and genomes to classrooms and homes of children in primary schools, middle schools, and high schools.

I was a primary school teacher there and in a class of about 26 children 80 % of them had weight problems.

Georgia About Blog The Montessori Academy at Sharon Springs in Cummings Georgia offers programs for toddlers, primary, elementary, middle, upper school children and childcare.

About Blog I am a Montessori teacher and mother of 2 children who have attended Montessori right up through primary school.

London, England About Blog Children's Yoga Tree aims to bring exceptional yoga teaching into primary and secondary schools and help families from all backgrounds discover the benefits of yoga.

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About Blog I am a Montessori teacher and mother of 2 children who have attended Montessori right up through primary school.

Georgia About Blog The Montessori Academy at Sharon Springs in Cummings Georgia offers programs for toddlers, primary, elementary, middle, upper school children and childcare.

This year's EFA Global Monitoring Report (GMR) shows that there are still some 57 million primary age children and 63 million adolescents out of school and about 781 million illiterate adults globally.

Delegates attending the BNF conference heard from a panel of eminent scientific experts including Professor Ashley Adamson from University of Newcastle, Dr Graham Moore from University of Cardiff, Professor John Reilly of University of Strathclyde, and Professor Jeanne Goldberg from Tufts University in Massachusetts, USA, about the role and impact of a whole school approach to nutrition; the association between breakfast consumption and education outcomes in primary schools, with particular reference to deprivation; the impact of obesity, and of physical activity, on academic attainment; and research which points to the most effective methods of communicating about nutrition with school children.

Between midday on 4th and 14th December, all donations online can be doubled, which means in the future twice as many teachers could be learning about child rights and gender - based violence, twice as many communities learning about the importance of girls» education, twice as many school - boards understanding and enforcing national policies aimed at supporting girls, and hopefully twice as many girls could be making that crucial transition from primary to secondary school, become shining beacons for hundreds of other women and girls who dream of a better future but wonder if it's possible.

I would suggest, though, that even more important than establishing a new academic discipline is to teach children already from primary school about our world.

«The children have become very excited about trees; we spent a whole afternoon, «learning with leaves» using them in maths to work out the area and perimeter of irregular shapes, and to classify using Venn diagrams,» said Claydon Primary School, Ipswich.

The school recognised the need for appropriate teaching resources to educate primary aged children about the positive and potentially negative aspects of the internet and other online technologies.

Language and literacy specialist Lyn Stone joins Teacher to discuss ways teachers can get primary school - aged children excited about spelling.

Last year's BNF Healthy Eating Week survey hit the headlines revealing how little UK school children and teenagers know about food origins, with a quarter of surveyed primary school children saying that cheese comes from plants and one in ten 14 — 16 year old saying that tomatoes grow underground.

«We know when we get our primary - age children fired up about reading, they stay readers all the way through middle school, and the Accelerated Reader program helps teachers do that,» Ingram explained.

In a pilot scheme where every child at primary schools in Newham and Durham was offered a free meal, they were more likely to eat a better diet at school, do significantly better in class — with an average of two months more progress by pupils at key stages 1 and 2 — and be less fussy about what they ate at home.

«When I think about my own experiences as a teacher in primary school, it would have been really helpful for me to have a really firm understanding of what the experiences the children had participated in in their prior - to - school setting might have looked like.

The Institute's Director, Anne Hollonds said the data — from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children — examined the key factors in parents» decisions about the type of primary school their child would attend.

Sporting Schools is all about fostering a lifelong interest in sport among Australian primary - aged children.

The report also found in about a third of primary schools inspected this year, more able children underachieved because their work was not challenging enough.

Where FUZE really excels is in enabling primary school and young secondary children to learn to code using a text based language which is what real coding is all about.

The pupils, and others from primary schools in Rhondda Cynon Taf and Swansea, have been taught how to recognise their emotions and handle them better, look after children who look sad or lonely in the playground and feel more positive about themselves.

The publication, which is published by education company Pearson, states: «We heard anecdotes during workshops about primary and secondary school children losing sleep and being physically sick before sitting tests.

2,381 British parents aged 18 and over, all of whom stated that they have at least one child in their last year of primary / junior school, were quizzed about the financial requirements of schooling.

People might be interested to know that the typical [primary school] child misses about 16 days of school a year and the typical secondary student misses about 24 days of school a year.

Both primary and secondary schools were asked about how parents preferred to pay their children's school for activities, trips, lunch etc..

Robert Goodwill, Minister of State for Children and Families, also added that: «Swimming is a vital life skill and schools have a duty to teach children how to swim and learn about water safety at primaryChildren and Families, also added that: «Swimming is a vital life skill and schools have a duty to teach children how to swim and learn about water safety at primarychildren how to swim and learn about water safety at primary school.

Dr Mary Bousted continued: «Primary school children need to be given the correct names of body parts, and to learn about menstruation and puberty.

For most parents, the primary source of information about their school is their child's teacher.

«Re-organising Primary Classroom Learning» by Nigel Hastings and Karen Chantrey - Wood explains the evidence that should prompt primary schools to think again about the contexts in which children are expected to concentrate andPrimary Classroom Learning» by Nigel Hastings and Karen Chantrey - Wood explains the evidence that should prompt primary schools to think again about the contexts in which children are expected to concentrate andprimary schools to think again about the contexts in which children are expected to concentrate and learn.