Example sentences of "[prep] school " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will be screening , in conjunction with the Puffin Book Club , a series of films for schools at the Midlands Arts Centre . |
| 2 | The boys asked if we could pay them some ‘ small money ’ to buy pens for schools . |
| 3 | ‘ Their achievements have enabled us to provide more resources where they were needed — for schools , hospitals , pensioners and disabled people . ’ |
| 4 | Mrs Thatcher tried to respond to social critics by emphasizing the government 's caring image in help for the elderly and programmes for schools . |
| 5 | Hence the encouragement for voluntary schools , City Technology Colleges , and for schools and hospitals to ‘ opt out ’ ; inducements for universities to be less dependent on state finance ; promotion of council house sales and housing action trusts . |
| 6 | Springboard 's other activities have included industry representation at careers fairs and conventions , visits to teachers and schools and invitations for schools to visit its offices . |
| 7 | The Princess Elizabeth for 32 school crews is unchanged , but the Special Race for Schools , started over a shorter course for those involved in exams , will not be held . |
| 8 | It also runs practical residential courses on the environment for schools and is constantly consulted for advice and information by industry and individuals . |
| 9 | Its only idea for schools is to put them back in the power of local authorities . |
| 10 | A new Bill will be introduced to prevent hostile local authorities from making life difficult for schools which want to opt out . |
| 11 | It is uncommon for schools to use processes such as critical path analysis because they can be very time consuming unless used by experts , although simpler versions may be worth considering for example stocks and flows models . |
| 12 | The aim of the survey was not to produce a set of quantified results from a pre-set questionnaire but , rather , to isolate key management issues which would prove instructive for schools establishing a formula-based scheme or modifying one and in particular in establishing a formula-based system at Alsager Comprehensive School ( the case study school ) . |
| 13 | A new independence for schools and further education colleges . |
| 14 | This will include responsibility for ensuring that schools and colleges meet the highest standards of academic performance , discipline and behaviour , and for providing special services for schools , such as peripatetic music , language development , or behaviour support . |
| 15 | Schools would not , therefore , be allowed to become too small in terms of their pupil numbers : ‘ LEAs see it as necessary to balance allowance for parental choice against the consequences of choice for schools generally . ’ |
| 16 | Some of the tragic child-abuse cases publicly investigated in the 1970s and 1980s highlighted the need for schools both to record information about possible child abuse and to share it with other agencies . |
| 17 | I was asked … the other day whether the Bill would lay down the curricula for schools . |
| 18 | But the Court held that while those beliefs should be respected , the overriding requirement was for schools to present information and knowledge with an objective , critical and pluralistic approach . |
| 19 | Traditionally it has been common practice for schools to seek to maintain discipline and control misbehaviour via the exertion of authority and the employment of sanctions as punishments . |
| 20 | There are parallels for schools ; if it pleases the customers then revamp the reading record card , add a parents ' race on Sports Day — making accommodations at the margins is equally easy for us too . |
| 21 | Governors have an increasing responsibility for schools they serve , very much like a board of directors of a public company but , unlike company directors , they may have little specialist knowledge or previous experience of management . |
| 22 | One way of ensuring a fairer distribution of additional resources is for schools to work together on joint fund raising . |
| 23 | It is not uncommon for schools on the same campus serving different age ranges to share raffles , prize draws and seasonal fairs . |
| 24 | He emphasised the consequent need for schools to ensure that adequate opportunities were provided for improving accomplishments in speaking and listening . |
| 25 | It is time to turn from the past to the future and consider first what centrally regulated changes in the curriculum for schools would help to raise the overall standard of education of children , nation-wide . |
| 26 | As more graduates enter primary teaching , so I believe it will become easier for schools to have a common purpose and to recognize this in a jointly worked-out curriculum , with more communication and actual cross-over from one part of the system to the other . |
| 27 | However , despite some lip-service to the rights of schools to determine their own curriculum , on the whole those who argue against centralist control of schools do so not so much on grounds of loss of freedom for schools as on grounds of the consequent loss of local power . |
| 28 | But because the conception of the Certificate did not originate within the recognized schools examination boards , indeed had nothing to do with the DES , it is now thought of as suitable more for further education than for schools , and it seems to invoke all over again the old distinction between ‘ education ’ and ‘ training ’ . |
| 29 | But shortage of teachers and timetabling problems make it very difficult for schools to work any great breadth into the system . |
| 30 | For schools ' parties and other group bookings contact Oxford ( 0865 ) 728822 |