Sentences with phrase «school in a small village»

The film chronicles a year at the Zabuli Education Center, the first girls» school in a small village in Afghanistan, following the interconnected stories of students, teachers, village elders and parents.

My hope is that this project alone will pay for most of a school in a small village that really needs one.

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As T. V. Philip observes, almost all of those who went out as missionaries in the earlier period were «a distinctive social class in British society... of craftsmen, small traders, shoe makers, printers, ship builders, school teachers...» William Carey, for instance, plied the trade of a cobbler to supplement his meagre earnings as a village school teacher and Baptist pastor.

Public education flourished in the nineteenth century and schools came to dominate small town America's landscape in the way cathedrals dominated the landscape of European villages.

VILLAGE CHRISTIAN KEYS TO VICTORY: Prior to the playoffs, the Crusaders had a steady diet of small schools, but in a current 15 - game winning streak they do have a win over Oaks Christian - Westlake Village which started the streak and is probably their best win of the VILLAGE CHRISTIAN KEYS TO VICTORY: Prior to the playoffs, the Crusaders had a steady diet of small schools, but in a current 15 - game winning streak they do have a win over Oaks Christian - Westlake Village which started the streak and is probably their best win of the Village which started the streak and is probably their best win of the season.

After a while the government leased us some land, and we built a small house thanks to money from friends, but it was in a village far from school.

I'm not a scientist, I'm not an engineer, I'm not an oceanographer — I'm just a regular guy who grew up in a small fishing village and dropped out of high school.

At aged just 15, Arnold began lifting weights to get bigger and fill out as he didn't want to be seen as the «skinny kid» at school or in the small Austrian village where he grew up.

Settle in the beautiful small village of Rishikesh, our school is surrounded by the enthralling Himalayas and situated at a walking distance from the enchanting Ganga.

He's reminiscing about the night he and his four best friends from high school tried the Golden Mile, a legendary 12 - pub crawl in their small village of Newton Haven.

But while Clueless follows Emma on a point - for - point basis, its biggest similarities are still environmental, in the way the insular aristocrats of a small, wealthy village mirror the spoiled, perky kids of a Beverly Hills high school.

Richard Attenborough: an escaped lunatic in A Bridge Too Far (1977) John Carpenter: his longest cameo appearance was as Bennett in The Fog (1980) Terry Gilliam: directed himself in bit roles in Jabberwocky (1977), Brazil (1985), and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988); he also directed himself as a member of the Monty Python troupe in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), and The Meaning of Life (1983) Ron Howard: small cameo roles in Night Shift (1982), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), and A Beautiful Mind (2001) Lawrence Kasdan: Devo's (River Phoenix) lawyer in I Love You To Death (1990) Elia Kazan: Mortuary Assistant in Panic in the Streets (1950) Stephen King: in his lone directorial effort Maximum Overdrive (1986) Spike Lee: cameos (and some larger roles) in many of his own films, including: She's Got ta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo» Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Crooklyn (1994), Clockers (1995), Girl 6 (1996), Summer of Sam (1999), and 3 A.M. (2001) Terrence Malick: an unexpected visitor at door, with blueprints, in Badlands (1973)- credited as «Caller at Rich Man's House» Robert Redford: the Narrator in A River Runs Through It (1992) Rob Reiner: a helicopter pilot in Misery (1990) M. Night Shyamalan: Dr. Hill at the hospital in The Sixth Sense (1999), a Stadium drug dealer in Unbreakable (2000), deadly driver Ray Reddy in Signs (2002), and Guard at Desk in The Village (2004) Steven Soderbergh: small cameo roles in Schizopolis (1996), Ocean's Eleven (2001) Oliver Stone: an officer with a phone in his hand in a US base's bunker when it is blown up by a suicide bomber in Platoon (1986)

In Bua, a small village in Ecuador, the students hand - dug a well for a community center and built ecological toilets for local schoolIn Bua, a small village in Ecuador, the students hand - dug a well for a community center and built ecological toilets for local schoolin Ecuador, the students hand - dug a well for a community center and built ecological toilets for local schools.

But researchers had to abandon their cars and either walk or hitch a ride on one of the ubiquitous and noisy three - wheeled farm vehicles to travel up the steeper mountain paths to clusters of houses in smaller villages to find the private schools.

Maria Velez - Clarke has for 18 years been principal of the Children's Workshop School in the East Village, Public School 361, one of several small schools started in the 1990s by people who had worked at the widely praised Central Park East School.

This small school serving the villages of Priors Marston and Priors Hardwick became independent in 1996, when the council decided to end its state - funded status.

Starting with one high school in 2000, and today, the High Tech High «village» now houses six autonomous small schools on the grounds of the former naval academy in San Diego and one school in Redwood, California.

A recent report by his department blames «successive governments» for their failure to fund more than a «skeleton staff» at small schools, and says it is time to «reimagine» education in small schools and isolated villages.

«It includes everyone from heads and deputies working in small village primary schools to an executive head in charge of a federation of several schools with pupils from three to 18.

When working in the village schools, Mr. Walker, whose wife also spent many years in the district as a teacher and now works in the main office, said he declared he would never move to Bethel or work out of the district office, because he valued his experiences in the smaller schools.

St George's Church of England Primary Academy is a small school with a village feel in the centre of Plymouth.

Shani Boianjiu's eye - opening and brutally honest debut novel chronicles the abrupt coming - of - age of three young Israeli girls — Yael, Lea and Avishag — who grow up in a small village, attend high school together and are conscripted soon afterward into the Israeli army.

From cooking schools and wineries in small villages in Italy, Spain & France to hiking and geothermal mudbaths in Iceland, we can craft a custom itinerary for you in any number of unique destinations around the world.

From all of the wisdom, experience and advice I've taken in over the past week, we are hoping to send the kids to Sittee River which is a school in a very small village of around 300 people.

We will help distribute the items to people who really need them in small village schools and communities in the mountains of Lares.

Shortly after leaving the Slade School of Art, Spencer became well known for his paintings depicting Biblical scenes occurring as if in Cookham, the small Thames - side village where he was born and spent much of his life.

While completing graduate studies in France, I taught Modern Art History: From Impressionism to Abstraction at the Lacoste Institute's School For the Arts in France (1991) in Lacoste a small village 40 miles south of Avignon, famous for the Marquis de Sade's chateaux and for being a haven for the Surrealists during the second world war.

The lobby of the new building contains a small gallery tucked between the staircase and the restaurant, open free to the public, which is currently featuring a show called «Eight West Eighth,» dedicated to the museum's founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, and its first incarnation at 8 West 8th Street in Greenwich Village (the current address of the New York Studio School, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last year).

Born in Donaueschingen, a small village in the Black Forest region of Germany, two months before the end of World War II, Kiefer attended grammar school in Rastatt, before starting courses in law and languages at the University of Freiburg.

Elk Grove Village was recently included in Fifty Fabulous Places to Raise Your Family because of its parks, schools, access to transportation, varied housing, vibrant economy, low crime rate, community services, and small - town atmosphere.

Three fun - packed days came to a climax at Barceloneta Restaurant, located in a fisherman's quarter with a small village feeling that remains, for the Summer School Gala, where delicious food awaited all who attended.