Sentences with phrase «thousands of schoolchildren»

Oil giant BP is promoting its brand to thousands of schoolchildren in almost 100 schools in Aberdeenshire, an area in which it recently slashed a fifth of its workforce...

Earthquake resistant buildings would ceratinly have been seriously damaged by the 7.9 magnatude quake, but they would not have crumbled like a ginderbread house, killing thousands upon thousands of schoolchildren.

Its ongoing partnership with Miami - Dade County Public Schools enables thousands of schoolchildren to visit and engage with the foundation every year.

We have pioneered innovative, science - based forest - restoration work, educated thousands of schoolchildren about the uniqueness and resilience of these wild marvels of nature, improved access to parkland and helped create parks and reserves that have touched the lives of millions of people from around the world.

As well as rehoming unwanted and abandoned cats, the charity also promotes neutering, provides cat care advice, and delivers talks about cat care to thousands of schoolchildren and community groups every year.

Activities will include large - sale outreach programmes, such as a # 1 million investment from Shell in the interactive Tomorrow's Engineers Energy Quest programme for thousands of schoolchildren, a children's book on engineering from publisher Usborne, and behind the scenes tours for families.

Sadly, for thousands of schoolchildren sitting in classrooms every day, stories of grief and loss are all too common.

Over the past nine years, the awards have seen hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren put to pen to paper and try their hand at storytelling, and this year, competition bosses are hoping to inspire even more young people to give writing a go.

Some see it as a form of broadcast «edutainment», giving thousands of schoolchildren access to star «superteachers».

Thousands of parents have gotten a lesson this week, as the Mayor's «my way or the highway» approach has left thousands of schoolchildren stranded at curbs across the city by the school bus strike.

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Hundreds of thousands of Arizona schoolchildren and their teachers can head back to class.

Suburbia may also have fostered the absorption of the monetary value - standard; the question most frequently asked by thousands of wide - eyed schoolchildren visiting the traveling King Tut exhibit was not anything about that fabulous era, or what those people believed as they prepared for afterlife, but rather, «How much does it cost?»

Thousands of Buffalo's schoolchildren live on streets where violence is a constant part of their lives.

«The scholarship program already serves as a lifeline to thousands of Louisiana schoolchildren from low - income families.»

Charter schools are publicly funded but privately operated, sometimes by for - profit companies, and have been proliferating for more than 25 years, with thousands of them enrolling as much as 6 percent of America's schoolchildren around the country.

«The scholarship program serves as a lifeline to thousands of Louisiana schoolchildren from low - income families who would otherwise have to attend an underperforming public school.»