Sentences with phrase «primary school children saying»

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.

New research from the British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) shows that one in ten 14 - 16 year olds in the UK say that tomatoes grow underground, and a quarter of primary school children say that cheese comes from plants.

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• «It is difficult to understand why a person whose primary concern was the safety of the children would agree to the FBI plan,» said Alan Stone of the Harvard medical and law schools.

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.

«We're working in some primary schools across the UK but really we're [saying] that every child needs access to that sort of education.»

Guidance, contained in the Church of England's new Valuing All God's Children report said nursery and primary school children ought to be free to try «the many cloaks of identity» without being labelled or Children report said nursery and primary school children ought to be free to try «the many cloaks of identity» without being labelled or children ought to be free to try «the many cloaks of identity» without being labelled or bullied.

A knife - wielding man injured 22 children and one adult outside a primary school in central China as students were arriving for classes Friday, police said, the latest in a series of periodic rampage attacks at Chinese schools and kindergartens.

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.

Gareth Todd Jones, head teacher of Pen Pych Community Primary in south Wales, one of the participating schools, said that the «Message to Dad» project had revealed great sensitivities in children.

«I'm not sure the primary mission of schools is to provide breakfast, but it is very critical for the development of the child,» he said.

Helping children learn to recognise and cope overwhelming emotions is an ongoing process that certainly doesn't stop when they enter primary or elementary school, in fact I would say emotional regulation becomes even more important in the vast social network of school.

Writing in the paper today, shadow schools secretary Michael Gove said that every year thousands of children completed primary school without being able to read.

Mr Gove said a «direct line to deprivation» existed from children whose behaviour was not «policed with proper boundaries» at primary school.

Parents should be the primary decision makers on what is best for their children's educational futures and not penalized by state and federal bureaucrats,» said Tedisco, a former public school special education teacher.

New York City Council Speaker Cory Johnson and Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo announced the package of 10 bills on Sunday and said the measures would be introduced this week... The proposals include: Requiring businesses with more than 15 employees to provide lactation spaces and refrigerators to store breast milk, Requiring lactation rooms in all schools, police precincts, and jails that house women or allow women visitors, Assessing the need for free and low - cost doula services in the city, Creating a report on maternal mortality, Requiring that inmates be able to choose the gender of their doctor, Requiring the city to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTiAtZ

Mrs. Mahama said the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), report in the year 2015, indicated that sub-Saharan Africaremains the home to the largest out of school population of children in the world and although Ghana continue to face its our own challenges, it had achieved universal enrolment of children in primary school.

Jennie Williams, a primary school teacher from Rhondda Cynon Taf, said: «Children as young as six are being forced to sit down in a totally alien environment for rigid and structured testing that they are not used to.

«It is shocking that under Labour, nearly half a million children have so far left primary school unable to read and write,» said Liberal Democrat schools spokesman David Laws.

On the Today Programme this morning, William Hague said that 40 percent of children leave primary school unable to read or write.

«Today is not a public holiday, but I can tell you that many children, from primary to senior high schools, will be on holiday; this is because he funds many of these children's education, sometimes from his own pocket,» he said.

Labour's plans to offer care for primary school children before and after classroom hours «won't cost any money», said the shadow chief secretary to the Treasury.

Erie County Health Commissioner Gale Burstein said that testing children for lead is better left to primary care practices, but she didn't elaborate on why she doesn't support the school district's proposal.

The cleric said under the Ekiti State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) Law, 2005, the state government had the mandatory obligation to provide free and compulsory education for every child of primary or junior secondary school age.

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.

Commenting on the publication of the Key Stage 2 SATs results today, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The NASUWT congratulates teachers for their hard work in ensuring that children have access to high quality teaching and are able to progress and achieve during their time in primary school.

«This government has made it a priority to help children in their early years and this initiative does just that, providing every child with a free school meal in their first years at primary school,» she said.

As many as two in three councils could see more children looking to start primary school in their area by September 2016 than there are currently places for, the Local Government Association (LGA) said.

The Borno Government on Saturday said it had constructed two model boarding primary schools to enrol children orphaned by the Boko Haram insurgency.

In addition he said that 650,000 children will be «crammed» into primary school classes larger than 30 pupils, and families will be nearly # 450 worse off per child as a result of Tory plans to scrap free school meals for 1.7 million children.

Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt says a Conservative pledge to make primary school children resit Sats is «a terrifying admission of failure» with their education policy.

«Pertussis can still be found in a fifth of school age children who present in primary care with persistent cough and can cause clinically significant cough in fully vaccinated children,» say the authors.

«If you look at a set of lung cancer patients, like we did in the paper, who develop brain metastases, they all have those two genes in their primary lung cancer,» said Sheila Singh, the study's supervisor, associate professor at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, scientist with the Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute at McMaster University and neurosurgeon at McMaster Children's Hospital.

But Richenda Van Leeuwen, the U.N. Foundation's new point woman on energy poverty, said leaders widely recognize the impossibility of achieving universal primary school education, reducing child mortality or other development targets without access to electricity.

It's up to us to learn how different animals tackle the problem so we can adapt those strategies to prevent cancer in people,» says co-senior author Joshua Schiffman, M.D., pediatric oncologist at Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah School of Medicine, and Primary Children's Hospital.

«This work shows us how a genetic mutation causes a severe form of glaucoma called primary congenital glaucoma, which afflicts a significant portion of children enrolled in institutions for the blind worldwide,» said principal investigator Dr. Susan Quaggin, chief of nephrology and hypertension at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Through the program, school nurses work with children identified with asthma and their families, as well as their primary care providers to address asthma so the child does not miss as much school,» said study lead author Jessica Hollenbach, PhD, Director of Asthma Programs, Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Hartfochildren identified with asthma and their families, as well as their primary care providers to address asthma so the child does not miss as much school,» said study lead author Jessica Hollenbach, PhD, Director of Asthma Programs, Connecticut Children's Medical Center, HartfoChildren's Medical Center, Hartford, Ct..

Trainee primary school teacher who tried to have sex with a 14 - year - old boy he met on dating app Grindr is spared jail as «sympathetic» judge says: «You Why do Children get angry?

He said: «An altogether more structured and systematic approach to learning grammar, spelling and punctuation in primary schools means children were becoming more confident in tackling challenging writing tasks».

Maggie said: «Around one in five children are overweight or obese as they start school; that rises to one in three by the time they leave primary school.

Andrew Wilkinson, Deputy Head of Burley and Woodhead Church of England Primary School, said: «It is important that we continually inspire and excite the children we teach and continue to provide them with opportunities to express their creativity.

There are also more age - specific signs.Pre - school children may show: Persistent difficulty in learning nursery rhymes or the name for things, like «table» or «chair»; difficulty with clapping a simple rhythm; enjoyment of being read to but no interest in words or letters; delayed speech development; primary school children may show a poor sense of direction and confusion between left and right; pronounced reading difficulties, specifically hesitant or laboured reading, omitted lines or repetition of the same line or loss of place in the text and difficulties in saying multi-syllabic words.

These children are the keys to a secure and sustainable future, and their education matters for us all,» said António Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and adds «Only one in two refugee children go to primary school, and one in four to secondary.

Tutors have said that the recent marking of primary school papers has fuelled the rise, after children missed out on marks because their punctuation marks were misshapen.

«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.

Education and Child Development Minister Susan Close said the targeted funding — for students in public primary schools — is designed to lift achievement and modernise the state's public education system.

Our children from reception to year 6 were all very enthusiastic and engaged whilst planting and have taken great ownership of caring for the trees,» said Kingsham Primary School, Chichester.

Cliff O'Gorman, Chief Executive of Children with Cancer UK, said: «We want all primary schools to take part in designing a new Mr Men or Little Miss character.

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He said teachers will be teaching children in primary school how to code and said «that's good for every child and every school in the country».

«If you get children more active in primary school, you embed good habits for life,» says Jefford.