Sentences with word «schooldays»

The couple were prosecuted by the Child and Family Agency over concerns about the huge amount of schooldays their son missed

Schooldays vs. weekends.

It also featured in the first of the «Ripping Yarns» by Michael Palin and Terry Jones, titled «Tomkinson's Schooldays».

When we visited Donna in her studio in October she was already working on the panels and telling us about how the work is a reference to a netball team she played in from her schooldays in Sydney, the «Woolloomooloo Warriors».

Howard Hodgkin has been a passionate collector of Indian paintings since his schooldays, and his collection has long been considered one of the finest of its kind in the world.

After schooldays at Theale Green, Setterfield studied French Literature at the University of Bristol.

All you have to do is to log onto Friends Reunited to know how deeply our schooldays mark us.

I couldn't tell you where that Mustang is or what condition it's in, but I miss it and the schooldays spent working on it.

For 2017 — 18, the CDE will be awarding almost $ 32 million in grant money to 1,113 unique school sites for expanded learning programs that operate in excess of 180 regular schooldays or during any combination of summer, weekends, intersession or vacation periods.

Choices about what's worth teaching made by educators, school boards, and governments fill up the schooldays of students.

Schooldays are also shorter in Finland than in the United States, and primary schools keep the homework load to a minimum so students have time for their own hobbies and friends when school is over.

The development of new curricula aimed at educating «the whole child» has led to fractured schooldays, with more information being taught in less time.

And since putting the emphasis on test scores, instead of on educating children, overwhelms schooldays with memorizing and boredom, the efforts that go into improving poor children's test scores necessarily take away from efforts to provide them with a demanding and engaging and worthy education.

In the film, teenager Alex Rider (Pettyfer, Tom Brown's Schooldays) is recruited into top secret government spy organization, MI6, after he learns that his dear old uncle's car accident was actually a murder.

It is a movie which is a skin - peelingly intimate character study and a brilliantly nihilist, feminist parable: what happens when smart progressive career women give birth to boys: the smirking, back - talking, weapon - loving competitive little beasts that they have feared and despised since their own schooldays?

These are films that mark people's memories: if you saw either when you were a teenager, they will have lingered in how you think about the passions and persecutions of your schooldays.

Described as his «most autobiographical» film, it tells the story of celebrated American poet Emily Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon), charting her life from her strong - willed schooldays to her tragically isolated adulthood.

The IFI French Film Festival 2012 continues today with Camille Rewinds (Camille Redouble) at 18.20, Noémie Lvovsky's Marty McFly - like comedy of a a 40 - year - old boozy divorcee, who one day wakes up in her schooldays of 1985 to be granted a second chance at life.

Produced by its star, this aimiable high school comedy (there was one every week last year) features Drew Barrymore as a 27 - year - old blue - stocking big - city journalist making up for her sad schooldays when assigned to go undercover to report on teenage mores.

A considerable chunk of the first act is dedicated to their troubled schooldays; we endure long minutes of fatuous Skype conversations, and a seemingly endless scene in which the lads buy ice - cream in Venice.

I, for sure, had some pants like this one in my closet in my schooldays (perhaps the boot cut was even bigger).

A big gap between offspring 2 and 3 means that schooldays spanned a long time chez moi and I'm still attached to the school calendar!

In the introduction, Bill Oddie talks about his schooldays of birdwatching and the lack of field guides, let alone books which were suitable for children covering other aspects of ornithology, he used to «just look up and wonder» at migrating birds.

It reminds me of none other than Flashman, the appalling bully in Tom Brown's Schooldays.

Osbourne reminds me of the cad in Tom Brown's schooldays, Flashman, I think he would be pleased to be so described

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Routledge has have has separate loan spells at Portsmouth and Fulham but have failed to hold onto the impression that he exhibited in his schooldays.

These look so great and I totally remember those GIANT muffins from my schooldays as well.

When I'm on vacation, I do that, but on weekdays, schooldays, it's pretty busy.

We get a useful echo of what Martin's schooldays were like from sermons and letters of twenty years later.

Schooldays came to an end.

Especially with younger kids, explain how a nutritious lunch will give them energy to finish the rest of the schoolday and enjoy after - school activities.

Deliveries have generally been made by the nutrition department's own vehicles as part of their routes to supply the district's 53 sites with regular schoolday meals, with non-school locations like libraries added on to the nearest route.

Here's the good news forart educators: Though anunintended consequenceof NCLB has been a slowstripping from the schoolday of anything that smacks of «extracurricular, «the national tide is turning.

Roughly 1,000 teachers across the nation leave the profession every schoolday, according to the study, released in an Issue Brief this month.