...Explain the term school readiness. The school readiness means that when children are ready to go to primary school and transition from the nursery. Children's readiness for positive transition into primary school needs to be view as an everyone’s responsibility. Parents, nursery teachers, primary schools, and local community programs working together provide the best common for children's success in school. School readiness needs to be clear in general, developmental terms so that the individuality of each child is well kept and respected. Explain how the early years practitioner supports children to prepare for school. Many young children who are developing normally nevertheless find this stage of life very difficult. For most of the children, leaving...
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...First off, People change. The person you knew in middle school many become a completely different person, and you yourself will change because in the first year of high school, many people mature. This may mean, you and your best friend of five or more years may suddenly stop making contact. This is not something to be afraid of. Change is simply the sign that you are growing up and becoming who you truly are. Many people remain friends throughout the four years here, but be aware and prepared. On your journey of changing, you will also meet new people. This is normal; Do not close yourself off from the rest of the high school population because you’re afraid of losing friends; You may meet a stellar person. For example, when I was a freshman, my best friend of six years decided to make new friends. The two of us were peas in a pod, but she essentially forgot about me that year. We are still friends to this day, but we are not as close. Meeting new people and expanding your friend group is okay, and if your old friends are okay with it, drag them along on your new escapades as a high school student....
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...sitting in a car with his parents. The family is on their way to a preparatory school. Charles’ parents will see if it would be a nice place for Charles to continue his education. The fees are much higher then his old school – Seaford. When they enter the school, they meet a woman who tells them to wait for the headmaster to be there. After talking a bit in the room where they were placed, the headmaster’s wife enters the room. Immediately she apologizes for her husband – the headmaster. After talking with the headmaster’s wife the headmaster comes in. the headmaster’s wife takes Charles away to meet the other students. They enters a room where some of the boys are playing, there are very noisy in there, but the boys become quit the second Charles and the woman enters. The woman leaves Charles in the room full of the boys, and the other boys gather around him in a circle. They ask him a lot of questions. He’s confused and forgets to listen to the boys – he looks at the clouds and he’s daydreaming, but suddenly he hear someone telling him, that when and if he starts at the school they will mash him and that they mash all of the new boys. After the parents are done talking with the headmaster, the headmaster’s wife comes in and brings him back to his parents, who are already in the car. The parents talks about the school on their way back and decides it’s a very pleasant school for Charles. When the mother ask him if he would like to go there, the child doesn’t answer, he just...
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...Ella was born normal but her twin was born with disability. They live with their complete family includes their mother, father and her elder brother. Ella is now 2 years old. Their mother has no job and she took good care of her twin sister. They participate at mother and baby groups in their town and made lots of friends. Their father works every weekday at the engineering company as one of the engineers and earns enough money to provide his family. And her elder brother is attending high school. They live in a nice flat with their grandma live nearby. But their parent got a divorced because their father had an affair. They move house together with her brother and twin sister, and it is a little bit rubbish place. They lost their old friends and their grandma in their old hometown. Influences: Birth of a sibling with disability- negative Socialising in a mother and baby group-positive Father had an affair-negative has a lot of friend- positive Parents’ divorce-negative Father Works, have enough money- positive 4-10 YEARS Ella has just started school at aged of 4. She couldn’t wait to start because in her mind she can meet new friends in that pre-school, And when the time of her first day at pre-school, she then meets her new friend and her new classmates. Her twin sister also attended pre-school. The other students bully Ella that she has a twin that is disabled. Her mum now has a steady job, her work will start at 9 in the morning and it last until 10 in the evening...
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...The protagonist of the book was Holden Caulfield, who when we first meet him, is preparing to move out of the prep school that he is currently attending. He has failed out of many preparatory schools such as Pencey, the school that he was attending. He takes a bus to New York City, where he lives. However, he is to embarrassed to return home and checks into the Edmont hotel for a few days. Caulfield goes downstairs to the Lavender Room, the Edmont's bar and nightclub but the waiter realizes that he is a minor and refuses to serve him. After leaving the bar, he continuously has flashbacks of a girl that he used to know, named Jane Gallagher, whom his roommate was messing around with the night that he left. He goes to Ernie's Piano Bar in Greenwich Villiage, and runs into one of his brother's former girlfriends....
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...Romance, Comedy and Drama Running time: 105min. Review: The movie is mainly about 36 year old Will Freeman and 12 year old Marcus Brewer. Will is a so called island which means that he wants nothing to do with family related things; all he really wants is relationships without any form of commitment, he therefore goes to a club for single parents called S.P.A.T. There he meets a woman that he likes, but to be with her he makes up that he has a two-year old son named Ted. When he revels that it was a lie to get close to her, she immediately breaks up with him. Will's keeps on courting and the woman (Suzie) takes him to one of the group's picnics where he meets Marcus the son of Suzie's friend, Fiona. At the picnic, Marcus accidentally kills a duck with piece of bread while he is trying to feed it. When a park ranger asks him about it, Will defends Marcus by saying that the bird was already dead. Afterward, when Will and Suzie take Marcus home, they find Fiona, his mother, in the living room, on a pill-overdose trying to commit suicide. Marcus gets uncomfortable with being at home with his mother; therefore he tries to get Will to date her. After only one date this plan fails so Marcus starts following Will around and discovers that Will doesn’t have a child and has been lying about being a single parent. Marcus then blackmails Will into having him around at his apartment after school instead of just going home. Will is at first against Marcus spending time at his place, but...
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...------------------------------------------------- College History... Ladies College Colombo was founded as a self supporting institution in 1900 by Liiian Nixon from Ireland and Ms Elizabeth Whitney from Canada at the behest of the Church Missionary Society. The history of the school is woven round the seven principals of the college who were responsible for its founding, expansion and ethos. There is no doubt it was due to their Christian faith and commitment that Ladies College grew from a rented bungalow in Slave Island with two students to what it is today... Quoting Ladies' College 1900-2000 Several issues fascinated us. …… How a Christian Missionary school like Ladies’ College, established in 1900 within a colonial ethos, adapted itself to the social, cultural, and economic changes that were ushered in with independence in 1947? How did the school come to terms with the subsequent shifts in educational policy by successive governments especially during the second half of the last century? How did the school cope with such dramatic changes and do so while still remaining geared to the national system of education? How did Ladies’ College not only survive for a period of a hundred years, but grow from strength to strength? Lilian Nixon BA Cert. Ed Principal (1900 - 1914). | At Ladies' College Cheltenham Lilian Nixon came under the influence of its famous Principal Dorothea Beale who brought to the realm of women’s education a vision and determination that had...
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...Ryan Professor Wheeler English 101 April 22, 2015 Catcher in the Rye Jerome David (J.D.) Salinger was born on New Year’s Day in the year 1919, in New York City, “the second and last child of Sol and Marie (Miriam) Jillich Salinger” (Alexander 1). As a young boy, Salinger was interested in theatre and dramatics. Growing up, he attended a public school on the Upper West Side in Manhattan. He was always a very quiet and polite young man. His parents, Sol and Marie, thought he would fit in perfectly in a private school – seeing how well-mannered that young Salinger was – they “enrolled him in McBurney School in Manhattan in 1932” (Alexander 2), but, just as one of his most famous characters, Holden Caufield, he did not fit in very well in the private school, struggling to keep his grades satisfactory. Concerned, Salinger’s parents sent him to Valley Forge Military Academy when he was just 15 years old. “There he was active in drama and singing clubs. He sometimes wrote fiction by flashlight under his blankets at night and contributed to the school’s magazine” (Alexander 3). Salinger graduated in June of 1936 from Valley Forge, and then went on to pursue a brief, but significant college career. He began his education at New York University, but quickly dropped out “to try performing as an entertainer on a Caribbean cruise ship” (Alexander 4). When he was 20 years old, he worked toward his college career once again. He enrolled in a class at Columbia University to learn and improve...
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...Holden begins his story in Pennsylvania, at Pencey Prep. He then recounts his adventures in New York City. Themes: Alienation as a form of self-protection; the painfulness of growing up; the phoniness of the adult world Characters: • Holden Caulfield- he protagonist and narrator of the novel, Holden is a sixteen-year-old junior who has just been expelled for failing from Pencey Prep. Although he is intelligent and sensitive, Holden narrates in a cynical and jaded voice. He finds the hypocrisy and ugliness of the world around him almost unbearable, and he tries to protect himself from the pain and disappointment of the adult world. The criticisms that Holden aims at people around him are also aimed at himself. He is uncomfortable with his own weaknesses, and at times displays as much phoniness, meanness, and superficiality as anyone else in the book. • Ackley- Holden's next-door neighbor in his dorm at Pencey Prep. Ackley is a pimply, insecure boy; he often barges into Holden's room and is oblivious to Holden's hints that he should leave. • Stradlater- Holden's roommate at Pencey Prep. Stradlater is handsome, self-satisfied, and popular. • Jane Gallagher - A girl with whom Holden spent a lot of time one summer. Jane is extremely important to Holden, because she is one of the few girls whom he both respects and finds attractive. • Phoebe Caulfield - Phoebe is Holden's ten-year-old sister. She listens to what he says and understands him more than most other people do. Phoebe...
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...the lack of funding provided by the government, and how teachers get laid off for not being deemed �highly qualified� teachers. However, statistics have indicated that the No Child Left behind Act has helped to make an improvement in the education for the youth of America. No Child Left Behind Act The No Child Left behind (NCLB) Act is now a United States federal law that was created to improve the public school system. This is the first amendment that has been made since the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. President George W. Bush felt that the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 was inadequate. So he devised his own way to try and improve it, thus creating the No Child Left behind Act. Another reason George W. Bush created the No Child Left behind Act is because he was noticing that the achievement gap between minority students and white students was growing. The No Child Left behind Act has many theories that should equal perfection according to President Bush. Some of these theories entail all students being proficient by the 2013-2014 school years. Another theory of the NCLB Act is to raise the achievement levels of minorities and subgroup students such as African Americans, Latinos, low-income students, and special education students to a level of proficiency agreed upon by each state. (U.S. Department of Education, 2004) The No Child Left behind Act was signed on January 8, 2002, and was instituted by George W....
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...D side 6 - nedstående tekst omskrevet fra nutid til datid Please listen to this episode from my school years. It was snowing outside the school building. I put on my warm jacket, and my girlfriend, Melissa, who put on warm clothes as well, shivered at the thought of the cold outside. We left the building and walked hand in hand through the snow-covered streets. We tried to keep warm and almost ran down the street. When we came to the pedestrian street, a homeless man suddenly approached us. He looked really miserable, but his eyes had a very strong glow. He told us about his poor childhood. We stood still and at some point Melissa cried a little. Afterwards we were quiet for a long time. It seems like ages. He gave us one final piece of advice before we went on. The texts in section A focus on social networking. 1. Write a summary of “Five clues that you are addicted to Facebook” (text 2) in about 150 words. “Five clues that you are addicted to Facebook” is written by Elizabeth Cohen. It is a short text that tells us stories about people being addicted to Facebook. In the story we hear about a person named Cynthia Newton. She has a 12-year-old daughter, that once asked her if she could help her with her homework, but Cynthia couldn’t because she was too busy with being on Facebook. According to the article, family therapists see more and more people who have a problem or are addicted to Facebook. Joanna Lipari compared Facebook to “The Truman Show”. “The Truman...
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...1. Holden Claufield attends Pency Prep where he meets several phony people such as Ackley and Stradlater. He eventually gets kicked out of the school because of his failing grades. 2. Holden finds out that his old friend, Jane Gallagher, is going on a date with Stradlater. Holden had feelings for her and he knows how Stardlater is with girls, thus he dislikes the idea of them dating. 3. Holden leaves Pency Prep early becasue he starts a fight with Stradlater and feels lonely. He heads home to New York and encounters Ernest Morrow's mother on the train. 4. Holden arrives in New York and takes a taxi cab to a hotel. He asks the taxi driver about the Central Park ducks because Holden can relate to them. 5. At the hotel, Holden meets the elevator operator, Maurice, who offers to set up Holden with a prostitute. Sunny, the prostitute arrives at Holden's room, but he pays her just to talk. 6. Maurice and Sunny reappear at Holden's door and demand more money. Holden refuses and gets into a fist fight with Maurice. 7. Holden makes a date with Sally Hayes for Sunday afternoon. He eats breakfast at sandwich bar, where he starts a conversation and donates ten dollars to two nuns. 8. Holden passes by an old museum that he use to visit every year. He remembers how nothing in the museum ever changed except for himself. 9. Holden and Sally go to the theater, where Sally runs into an old friend. After the play, Hodlen takes Sally ice skating. where they get into an arguement because Holden...
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...Making friends in school Besides getting an education, making friends in school is probably one of them most important parts of growing up. Having friends in school can keep you motivated to attend school every day. If you don’t have any friends in school you may feel alone and that school is not a fun place to be. Follow these helpful steps and you should be making friends in no time. First off the person should be kind to whoever he or she meets at the school. This is where the old saying don’t judge a book by its cover comes into play. They should remember that in the school, they will find kids their age that have some of the same interest as they do. They should remember don’t judge others before they meet them. Be yourself, they should never change who they are to try and fit in. If their friends don’t accept them for them, they’re not there real friends. Most people belong to a certain clique, simply because they are being themselves and their unique personalities and interests fall into a certain stereotype. For example, someone who is naturally athletic may become a jock in high school or someone who is drawn to playing instruments may be classified as a band geek. Many people can tell if someone is faking a personality, so don’t try hard to fit into a certain clique, it will just happen naturally. The student should be as confident as they can be. There’s nothing that attracts people more than someone who’s secure in who they are. They should have a good attitude;...
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...About me My name is Vinoyan Uthayakumar I am seventeen years old and studying in 10th class on Sønderskov-school in Sønderborg my parents from Sri Lanka and now I live in Denmark, my origin birthplace are from another city in Denmark called Herning, I moved to Sønderborg-city when I was four years old, because my families live in Sønderborg. I have to brother’s one big brother on twenty years, and a little brother on fifteen years old, they are also born in Herning. I am happy to live in Denmark, because it is safety to live here, than my home country. I started when I was seven years in public school on Humlehøj-school until 16 years in 9th class. At the 9 years I have grown lots of sports, football, volleyball, badminton board tennis and swimming I like to grown sports, my first job was until I was 17 years on a restaurant called Ox-en Steak House in Sønderborg. I still working and same time studying in 10th class. Studying in 10th class it’s very nice and helpful and easier to take forward to next step for what I will do. In 10th class we meet new friends and learn to be a social person with many peoples, and we also learn how it will be on collage. In my space time I grown sport. I playing football in club called FC Sønderborg, it’s a new club they have started for 2 years ago, and we playing against high class club. Now I not take football so seriously, as I did before, because I have to focus on school. I work on restaurant in Ox-en as decoration the restaurant, and...
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...government document relates 12 physical acts that will ensure the success of every student. Among other things, it includes” meeting the educational needs of low-achieving children,” whatever the reason, and “…closing the achievement gap between high- and low- preforming children (United States Department of Education, 2001) .” High stakes testing is contrary to the NCLB act because it enforces only one kind of learning style. High stakes testing reinforces learning and memorization for math and sciences and focuses on students with no learning issues or disabilities. High stakes testing does not test for areas of weakness in a child’s education, and so does not focus on improvement (American Psychological Association, n.d.) Schools understand this, and because they base the educational budget on the...
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