Sentences with phrase «primary school children moving»

Nike and Discovery Education announce UK - wide programme to get primary school children moving

Not exact matches

For many, the desire and intention is there, but due to the pressures of family, work, and life in general, home reading can drop off the list of things to do, especially as a child moves through primary school.

The new school year can be an exciting but daunting milestone for students making the move from primary to secondary, but particularly for young children who are starting formal schooling for the first time.

The London 2012 Olympics helped to nudge the other side of the simple equation, «eat less and move more», and it has taken initiatives like the Stirling Primary School Daily Mile to underline the mental, social and physical gain of getting children motivated to exercise more.

The criticism will certainly continue however if preschool establishments up and down the country adopt this celebration then this is solid evidence to silence the critics and show this is a worthy and proud celebration for the preschool child moving on to primary school.

Ultimately, she adds, it has helped Black Forest Primary move from a focus on how children are ready for school to how the school is ready for the child.

«We also want to build the confidence of primary school children in the transitional period when they move from primary to secondary school.

Ministers have insisted that the move will help ensure children leave primary school with a good standard of reading, writing and maths.

David Simmonds, chairman of the LGA's children and young people board, said: «As children move through primary school, securing new secondary places will become a significant issue.

A number of primary school children caught up in Edinburgh's schools crisis are being moved to «a more appropriate teaching environment» following complaints from parents.

Canada allows flexibility in terms of school starting age for the youngest in year, and parts of Florida also utilise grade retention for children who are not ready to move on to the next level of their primary education.

If the United States could somehow guarantee poor people a fair shot at the American dream through shifting education policies alone, then perhaps we wouldn't have to feel so damn bad about inequality — about low tax rates and loopholes that benefit the superrich and prevent us from expanding access to childcare and food stamps; about private primary and secondary schools that cost as much annually as an Ivy League college, and provide similar benefits; about moving to a different neighborhood, or to the suburbs, to avoid sending our children to school with kids who are not like them.

In addition, in the proposal called «money follow the child», charter schools are saying that regardless of whether government expands funding for primary and secondary education in Connecticut, if a child moves from the public school system to a charter school all of the money allocated to «pay» for that student should move as well.

CEA President Cohen was quoted as saying, «Today's PEAC changes will foster a new climate that moves away from the rigidity and moves toward the healthy flexibility that our schools communities sorely need...,» while AFT - CT President Peters added, «With PEAC's approval of new flexibility options, our state's children will be the primary beneficiaries of this course correction.»

The father wished for the children to be educated in a boarding school at some distance from the former family home while the mother wished for the younger child to move with the mother to her new residence and attend the local primary school.

At the time of the divorce in 2003, Mother was awarded sole legal custody and primary physical custody of the children, followed by her remarriage and relocation with the children to Texas in 2005, Father's relocation for 6 months to be near the children in Texas, Father's return to Arizona after not finding steady employment, Mother's separation from her new husband and subsequent move to an apartment with the children (that resulted in a change of schools).

Moving your children to primary school Introduces the system of education in Ireland at primary level and information describes the procedures involved in enrolling a child in primary school.

During this time your child may experience lots of strong emotions, sometimes conflicting ones like excitement and nervousness as they think about leaving their current setting and moving to primary school.

The changes that will take place as your child moves from their present setting to primary school.

School problems often come up during transition periods in a child's life — for example, when a chlid moves from primary to secondary sSchool problems often come up during transition periods in a child's life — for example, when a chlid moves from primary to secondary schoolschool.

Children's difficult behaviour tends to decrease, and pro-social behaviour increase as they move from the pre - to primary school stage although the changes are small.

For example, looking at the «Normal» row under «Conduct problems» we can see that 85 % of children whose conduct problems score at age 46 months was in the normal range also had a conduct score in the normal range at entry to primary school, but 11 % moved from having a normal score at pre-school to having a borderline score at entry to primary school.

Overall, as may be expected, the data from both Table 4.1 and Table 4.2 suggest that on average children's difficult behaviour decreases, and pro-social behaviour increases as they move from the pre - to primary school stage.

For example, 61 % of those children whose scores were in the borderline range for hyperactivity at age 3 had moved into the normal range at entry to primary school.

Interventions with children and adolescents hold promise because they can prevent the development of internalizing problems at key developmental time points, as well as building resilience and positive developmental trajectories at times of transition such as the move from primary to secondary school (Neil and Christensen, 2009; Durlak et al., 2011).