Sentences with phrase «primary school of your choice»

Returning Singaporeans will continue to have equal opportunities to seek admission to a primary school of choice during the Primary One Registration Exercise, no different from local Singaporeans.

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Ultimately, she decided to stay where she was and we weren't unhappy about that as her current school is very good and was our only choice of Primary for her.

The schools will provide a values - based education and a greater choice of primary schools in Derby.

On - going trends involving public school segregation have been a primary focus of the CRP's research, and the expanding policy emphasis on school choice prompted analysis of the much smaller — but politically potent — charter sector.

The Key's report also shows that the pressure for primary schools doesn't end with the application figures — almost half (45 %) of primary school leaders have had to respond to upset parents whose children didn't get their first - choice placement at the school, compared to one in five (20 %) leaders in secondary schools.

In addition to the Silver Food for Life menu offered to all primary schools across Derbyshire, a deli bar was purchased offering a daily choice of freshly prepared sandwiches and filled rolls.

With over 500 ON - DEMAND lesson plans and video tutorials, to our knowledge our platform offers widest choice of premium topics and lessons available to any Primary School in the UK.

If civic virtue and a shared commitment to the common good are primary objects of schooling, a strong case can be made that school choice helps, not hinders, that mission

The focus of the program has been to enable primary school students in Year 3 to Year 6 to learn how to grow, harvest, prepare and share seasonal fresh food in the belief that this approach will positively influence children's food choices.

This activity is designed to prepare pupils for one aspect of the transition from primary to secondary school: making spending choices in a typical day.

The tablet is the online device of choice for primary children, but for secondary school - aged children, the smartphone is the most popular choice.

The data showed that 3.5 per cent of parents did not get any of their preferences for secondary school, while 3.1 per cent missed out on all their choices of primary school.

If civic virtue and a shared commitment to the common good are primary objects of schooling — and I agree that they should be — a strong case can be made that school choice helps, not hinders that mission.

Beyond the primary objective of illumination, making the right lighting choices can help promote happiness amongst staff and students, improve productivity, and significantly reduce a school's carbon footprint, whilst simultaneously cutting long - term energy costs.

Whilst schools don't use the word «consent» with primary students they should discuss the concept of «choice».

«Parents who find out on Monday which primary school their child will attend can be reassured that the government is doing more than any before to ensure all parents have the choice of a good local school.

«Great Ouse Primary Academy will provide much - needed high - quality places, driving up standards and ensuring even more parents have the choice of a good school place for their child.»

Change4Life will be launching a suite of new resources for primary schools in order to inform pupils and families about healthier snacking choices.

The Key's survey revealed that 45 per cent of primary leaders have had the difficult task of responding to upset parents whose children did not get their first choice placement at the school.

Dr Becky Allen, Director of Education Datalab, said: «There are many benefits to giving parents a choice over where their child is educated, but our new research shows that that there is not equity in access to many primary schools, either because higher - income families are advantaged in their ability to exercise choice or because their admissions criteria favour certain pupils.»

School choice has been one of the great successes of the education - reform movement in recent years, and taxpayer - funded vouchers have been one of the movement's primary tools.

The Supreme Court, in cases culminating in Agostini [v. Felton], has established the general principle that state educational assistance programs do not have the primary effect of advancing religion if those programs provide public aid to both sectarian and nonsectarian institutions (1) on the basis of neutral, secular criteria that neither favor nor disfavor religion; and (2) only as a result of numerous private choices of the individual parents of school - age children.

For primary school students it was a narrower set of choices: «high school», «TAFE», «university» and «I don't know»; for the secondary students it was a little bit more detailed in terms of postgraduate study and things as well, but we collapsed it into those four key categories for this particular analysis.

The Tennessee Federation for Children, the state's voice for educational choice, celebrates Tennessee's primary election results as voters turned out in support of school choice candidates.

Although Berkeley's student assignment plan allows parents to rank - order their first - choice, second - choice, and third - choice schools, it considers a number of factors in the actual assignment process, including the parent's level of education, income, and primary language spoken at home.

The primary requirement for teaching at one of our schools is a core belief that every child can succeed and that the collective team will do whatever it takes to help each and every student develop the character and academic skills necessary for them to lead choice - filled lives.

Four DeSoto County House Republican incumbents targeted by a pro-school choice group because of opposition to charter schools are among at least nine incumbents who lost party primaries Tuesday.

One of the primary reasons for creating charter schools is to give parents and students a choice; it is illogical, then, to punish the charter schools for attracting students away from schools that are not meeting the students» needs.

Angela Jones said: «My kids prefer packed lunches as the primary school dinners have a lack of choice for vegetarians and I don't want them having a pudding every lunchtime.»

Tory MP Jason McCartney also highlighted the importance of choice and Caroline Nokes questioned the value of enforced academy status for primary schools which were already high achievers.

While the city of Milwaukee Charters have made a lot of mistakes, the primary offender of crippling education for our children has been the Parental Choice Program (voucher schools).

Between the primary and general election, just two of the approximately 95 legislators in both chambers who supported school choice were defeated.

And while it was respected in its field long before the baseline assessment was even a twinkle in the schools minister's eye, it was thrown into the national limelight in 2015 when, after primary schools were given the choice between six assessments selected as capable of reliably measuring the abilities of children entering the reception year, 75 per cent opted for EExBA, the assessment tool designed by Early Excellence and scored through teacher observation.

But the Netmums website says there is disquiet among parents - with fears that expansion will change the character of primary schools and the pressure on places will make it harder to get a first choice place.

He added: «There is no new money for teachers or classrooms so primary heads, faced with impending reductions in psychological services and learning support, could have to turn parents away from the school of their choice at P1.

Even as the party itself is divided over embracing Common Core standards, has a retrograde on education in the form of House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (who wants to eviscerate the strong accountability measures contained in the No Child Left Behind Act), and had a primary race for the presidential nod that had seen aspirants backtrack (of offer little information) on their respective school reform agendas, Republicans were able to paper over these issues thanks to strong calls by former Florida governor Jeb Bush, Texas teacher Sean Duffy, and onetime Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for expanding school choice, advancing Parent Power, and overhauling how teachers are recruited, trained, managed, and compensated.

Paul Luxemore, executive head of the Coastal Academies Trust which oversees four secondary schools and one primary school, told BBC Radio 5 live: «By arguing that remaining local authority schools should have the choice not to become academies, in effect the NAHT are defending local authorities.

Keith Topping, a professor of educational and social research at Dundee University, analysed the reading habits and choices of almost a million primary and secondary school pupils in the UK using an online library tool called Accelerated Reader.

Consumer choice is the primary driver of accountability for almost everything in America that we take for granted — consumer electronics, package delivery, automobiles, greeting cards, sneakers, home construction, and on and on — but not so for schooling.

«This primary victory is a direct result of parents rising up to defend school choice and elect pro-school choice candidates.»

In 2012, Republican Primary voters voiced overwhelming support of school choice.

Today, the primary beneficiaries of the nation's private school choice programs are low - income, working - class, and minority families.

Wide local variations are emerging in the proportion of families allocated their first choice of primary school for their children.

At the Walton Family Foundation the primary driver of school quality is supposed to be competition fueled by choice — i.e., growth of the market.

As a public school of choice, our Primary program offers an introduction to the Montessori learning environment for students in their Kindergarten year.

It's a quirky, action - packed side - scrolling action game: You have a life meter (instead of the quarter - eating, maddening, «one hit and you die» style of many old school shooters), you pick your primary weapon, and you bounce around the screen like some kind of crazy ninja, flinging enemies around and filling the screen with bullets (or fire, or whatever your weapon of choice is).

Several law schools have experimented with introducing foreign and international issues into basic LRW instruction.68 Some have responded to these arguments by creating either upper - class elective seminars with a global LRW focus, 69 or by creating a specialized foreign / international section of the basic LRW course.70 Typically, this has been accomplished in a largely ad hoc fashion through the creative efforts of individual instructors, who sometimes offer a special «international» section of the basic LRW course.71 Additionally, LRW professors whose primary responsibility is to educate foreign students have naturally gravitated toward incorporating global dimensions in their problems and assignments.72 Faculty specializing in teaching legal English have observed that English is increasingly the language of choice for transnational negotiations and legal instruments, even in circumstances where the underlying transactions do not involve Anglo - American law.73 Consequently, they also emphasize a transnational approach that responds to the needs of their students.

These include studies: in a range of settings (e.g., schools, universities, Lifeline, NHS Choices online); across the mental health care spectrum (from prevention to treatment); with different age groups (adults, adolescents); with a range of population groups (e.g. students, primary care patients, community users); in different countries; and with and without guidance.

Psychosocial correlates of healthy beliefs, choices, and behaviors in overweight and obese school - age children: a primary care healthy choices intervention pilot study