How To Use Pupil In A Sentence

The net result of all these changes is that schools should be able to deliver a better service to pupils.
Half are doing as well at reading, writing and arithmetic as white British pupils at primary school. The Sun
Other areas praised by the Ofsted team include her leadership as head, and the pastoral care of pupils.
These pupils were mainly overseas students taking the exams in their second language.
A man of good humour and a great sense of fun, he enjoyed popularity among his teaching colleagues and pupils, many of whom were present at the removal of remains and burial.

The teacher always puts in a good word for his former pupils.
She taught a class of 30 pupils.
We are going to make an information pack and appoint a pupil who will make sure supply teachers have any resources they need.
Making all pupils feel they are valued and have a contribution to make to the school community is vital in helping children become responsible adults.
With her pupils dilated to blackness, and spitting vituperation in all directions, the very last thing she seems is sane.
Working with other schools is an effective means of staff training, and academies for secondary pupils will benefit if their feeder schools improve their standards. Times, Sunday Times
Our pupils and students leave schools and universities after an incredibly narrow diet of education compared with their international counterparts. Times, Sunday Times
A stimulant action on the parasympathetic portion of the oculomotor nucleus (third cranial nerve) is responsible for pupillary miosis.
And yet while teachers' strikes may have been popular with chatterers and some politicians, the iridescence has caused untold suffering among pupils whose school calendar has been dislocated.
Being a school photographer means being employed by a firm that contracts to do school / class / individual pupil photographs.
Would it not be logical for him to enable these schools to share their facilities with pupils in adjacent areas? Times, Sunday Times
The teacher told his pupils to spread out and not to bunch up in the center of the playground.
As it was, his expression hardened, the catlike sharpness of his pupils glinting dangerously.
His most famous pupil was the Athenian politician Demetrius of Phalerum, through whose influence he, though a metic (resident foreigner), was allowed to own property.
Teachers insist that prep classes with 25 pupils or more require an aide for 30 hours in term 1 and 25 hours for the rest of the year.
This would be the blueprint for all schooling: I'd promote anti-racism and religious tolerance so pupils knew what it was.
She took the pupil up sharply when he had a slip of the tongue.
Pupillary size is controlled by the action of the constrictor and dilator smooth muscles of the iris.
A private company has been handed the task of taking Scotland's most disruptive and disturbed state school pupils and educating them away from home.
Disabled and able-bodied pupils got together for a dance and drama day.
It seems appropriate therefore that disruptive pupils have full access to the curriculum which requires that schools acknowledge this in their planning.
The teacher has handed out worksheets describing the weapons and siege engines which could have been used, and she is quizzing pupils about them.
History, geography and modern languages are set to become compulsory in school until pupils reach 16 in sweeping changes to the national curriculum. Times, Sunday Times
The private school opened in 1994 and has 32 pupils, who are generally taught in classes of 14 pupils.
These guys are easy to spot when they are on the juice because if you get a good look at their eyes at the start line their pupils are as big as dinner plates!
A pupil in the US state of Florida shot and killed his teacher with a semi- automatic pistol in front of other six children.
The pupil, who was well assured of the true motive, allowed his governor to enjoy the triumph of his own penetration, and consoled himself with the hope of seeing his dulcinea again at some of the public places in Paris, which he proposed to frequent. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
Tchitcherine tracks mud off the street into the Center, gets a blush from Luba, a kind of kowtow and mopflourish from the comical Chinese swamper Chu Piang, unreadable stares from an early pupil or two. Gravity's Rainbow
They also found that there were strong links between the speed of pupils' progress and their socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds. Times, Sunday Times
Upon this occasion I particularly lamented that he had not that warmth of friendship for his brilliant pupil, which we may suppose would have had a benignant effect on both.
New guidelines to independent appeals panels call for them to take into account the impact on the whole school of bringing back excluded pupils, and not to reinstate pupils on a technicality.
Severe vomiting, diarrhoea, rectal tenesmus: unable to keep standing, she urinates under herself; the pupils are dilated, the eyes haggard; complete mind-blindness, near-total failure of reflexes, deep unconsciousness, breathing dyspneic, heart-beat faint and very fast, pulse barely perceptible; dead in thirty-six hours. Charles Richet - Nobel Lecture
But what was remarkable in the lady was, that although her features were handsome, and upon the whole pleasing, the pupil of each eye was dimmed with the whiteness of cataract, and she was evidently stone-blind. The Purcell Papers
Miss Sullivan, who knows her pupil's mind, selects from the passing landscape essential elements, which give a certain clearness to Miss The Story of My Life
So long as tutors and governesses only had to deal with their own pupils, all went well, but when the brothers and sisters were all together, and influenced by the spirit of insubordination and love of playing pranks which the elder ones brought back from school, we made life hard and sour to the preceptorial body. Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville
Your eye doctor usually uses special eyedrops to dilate your pupils, opening them wider so he or she can see the back part of your eye.
Currently only 3 % of grammar school pupils come from families with incomes so low that they qualify for free school meals. Times, Sunday Times
Apart from the damage that drinks dispensing machines are doing to school pupils' teeth, cans of sugary drinks are also adding to their daily calorie intake, resulting in obesity.
When the other pupils were taken to an exhibition, he was left behind.
We will continue to offer support to the family, his fellow pupils and teachers at this very difficult time. Times, Sunday Times
An uncanny silence descended on a school as pupils made a superhuman effort to clamp their lips tightly shut.
Using phonics to help pupils learn to read century class needs to get out into the 'real world', roll down its glasses and defog them of media saturation if it is to have any real redeeming ... Discourages Student Engagement
For he took a genuine interest in his pupils; and, in that first year of his teaching, carried his class to surprising lengths, nor let them betray any evidences of unthoroughness when they went trembling up to the examinations provided by the great Anton himself, in the mid-year term. The Genius
Would it not be logical for him to enable these schools to share their facilities with pupils in adjacent areas? Times, Sunday Times
Records of achievement for pupils, a flexible national curriculum, a home/school partnership agreements, and a national schools award.
Appeals Panels still have powers to reverse decisions of schools to exclude pupils permanently.
The way pupils use sexually abusive language to insult each other presents particular problems for teachers.
She said most pupils were well behaved, but ‘there were some serious issues around individual children exhibiting poor behaviour’.
The eyes were open—grotesquely oversize in his emaciated face, and bright yellow, the pupils as small as pinpricks—from which dribbled ocherous tears the consistency of curd. The Curse of the Wendigo
Pupils who collected the most garbage bags were due to get prizes like beach balls, crayons and colouring books.
Persistent pupillary membrane is a condition of the eye involving remnants of a fetal membrane that persist as strands of tissue crossing the pupil.
The pupils learn to spell in school.
Eighty pupils from Kirkby Malham Primary School have planted ash seedlings which they reared themselves in the school nursery.
At 11-plus many pupils become boarders, which adds an exciting dimension to their schooling.
David grabbed the otoscope off the floor, raised Bronner's eyelids, and shone the beam of light into his pupils. DO NO HARM
During the Victorian lesson, Ms Roberts had the pupils reciting prayers by rote and kept the classroom atmosphere strict and formal.
Weird milky eyes with no pupil, limbs too long for their thin boniness, and they ... bent. Asimov's Science Fiction
Instead of her common, ordinary brown eyes, her eyes now were completely black, except for one small glowing gold pupil in the center.
Nikita was a pupil in Holy Family Girls National School, Askea and was known as a very kind-hearted little girl who loved to share.
Pupil behaviour, excessive workload and bureaucracy, teacher shortages and the stream of new Government initiatives have all been cited as causes.
More than anywhere else was German influence felt in France, and here we must mention in the first place the pupils of Jager: Viktor Stöber (1803-71), professor at Strasburg, and Julius Sichel of Paris (1802-58; choroiditis, glaucoma, cataract, staphyloma). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
Pupils contract in bright light, and dilate in darkness.
UK education ministers continually assert that the education system is not dumbing down - pupils are getting smarter.
It was clear that the native tutors had no control whatever over their illustrious pupil, and every creature in and about the zenana was his submissive slave, so that Gerrard became seriously exercised as to the development of his character. The Path to Honour
It insists it will help its 55 teachers to identify troublemakers - and will help pupils to make friends. The Sun
It's a narcotising vista, causing the pupils to shrink, the heart to beat faster.
Most pupils learn a musical instrument.
More than two million pupils were jubilant at getting the day off to enjoy the winter wonderland. The Sun
Her dedication and commitment to the pupils over the past seven years has brought the school to the forefront in many areas.
Several pupils were designated as having moderate or severe learning difficulties.
Parasympathomimetic drugs such as pilocarpine constrict the pupil and ‘pull’ on the trabecular meshwork, increasing the flow of aqueous out of the eye.
Her former pupils at the Towers were going to present her with that; they were to dress her from head to foot on the auspicious day. Wives and Daughters
James, 17, says boarding has allowed him to develop a close relationship and a respect for his teachers that he would not have had as a day pupil.
He thinks it is just as important to give his pupils a rich and rewarding experience during their six or seven years at the school.
The teacher uses an extremely directive approach in her interpersonal relations with the pupils. Educational Psychology in a Changing World
He went to classes smartly dressed in a shirt and tie, and upbraided his fellow pupils for not being suitably attired.
Year nine pupils are letting dentists examine their molars as part of a national review aimed at improving the nation's gnashers.
He's a good teacher, but he doesn't have much patience with the slower pupils.
The pupils will also visit Bradford's Colour Museum to look at how patterns are printed onto fabrics, and the city's industrial museum to see how fabric was made in the 19th century.
The former St Edmund's pupil has been involved with the Guide movement since she joined the Brownies at the age of seven.
Every day, the pupils would have milk or milk pottage for breakfast, a vegetable-based dinner at midday, and broth with a piece of bread for supper.
There is a very relaxed atmosphere between staff and pupils at the school.
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The research aims to investigate the contribution to pupils' understanding and tolerance made by language teaching.
It does not allow that subjects such as music or dancing be denied to pupils on the ground that some religious people disapprove. Times, Sunday Times
The disruptive behaviour of a small minority of pupils can wreak havoc in the classrooms and corridors.
Pupils have brought some traditional festive cheer to a small rural village, by repairing nativity figures and a crib.
Since the pupillary sphincter is not receiving blood, neither light nor a miotic agent produces miosis.
The teacher keeps telling the pupils to work harder but her words go in one ear and out the other.
Visitors were most impressed by the enthusiasm and commitment of pupils, teachers and all concerned.
Silence descended on a village school when pupils held a sponsored hush for charity.
Good schools would educate their pupils to be useful, practical, and self-motivated.
The teacher greeted me with that mildness with which every teacher greets his future pupil in the presence of parents.
The story is told by Michelangelo's pupil and biographer Condivi and is therefore presumably true in essentials.
Under the pontificate of his former pupil Paul II (1464-1471), he returned to Rome and was appointed a papal abbreviator, but became involved in fresh quarrels in 1465 he visited Crete and Byzantium, and then returned to Rome, where he wrote the account of the martyrdom of Bl. Andrew of Chios The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
Ninety-nine per cent of primary pupils now have hands-on experience of computers.
The instructors walk around with weapons on their belts and constantly remind their pupils to don their ear protectors.
The pupils have spent the last 6 weeks attending an evening class, every Monday, learning new techniques and pointers on improving their photos.
I have said, that she also was a promising pupil of the good father, upon whom her innocent and infantine beauty had an effect of which he was himself, perhaps, unconscious. The Monastery
The lower primary pupils are well integrated into the life of the school.
His formative student years were spent in Paris as a pupil of d' Indy at the Schola Cantorum, though he learnt more from the impressionism of Debussy and Ravel.
Pupils get lessons on how to organize their study time.
As long as a pupil is quiet, inconspicuous and conformist, everything is fine.
S6 pupils also undertake a dissertation on a subject of their own choice such as Roman Law, philosophy, etc.
The good news is that the pupils will probably spill the beans. Times, Sunday Times
Her list of pupils read like a roll-call of the great and good.
The stone was quarried 30 miles away in Kilkenny and crafted in Stradbally, with much of the work being done by past pupils of Scoil Mhuire Fatima.
Most school pupils can manage four decimal places, and the average calculator will work to eight. Times, Sunday Times
The old illustrator never let his pupils fall for the pathetic fallacy, that empty barrels are lonely.
A key task is to get pupils to perceive for themselves the relationship between success and effort.
At the end of every term a schoolmaster reports on each of his pupils.
The establishment was both a pensionnat and an externat: the externes or day-pupils exceeded one hundred in number; the boarders were about a score. Villette
Staff, pupils and parents are due to bid a tearful farewell to their Bolton primary school tomorrow.
In particular, businesses expect pupils leaving school to be literate and numerate.
The drive against political correctness includes plans to revise the curriculum for primary and secondary pupils to correct a perceived bias towards left-wing thinking. Times, Sunday Times
A questionnaire on patterns of substance abuse will be followed-up by in-depth interviews with pupils.
Unions say that children as young as three have physically attacked teachers as well as other pupils.
Her pupils often got the rough edge of her tongue when they disobeyed her.
It was generally agreed that professional language teachers should receive phonetic training, and that at the school stage the teacher should preferably be of the same language background as the pupils.
Only a small percentage of the village pupils pass the state examination at the end of sixth grade in order to go on to high school.
Many pupils were still asking closed questions that did not encourage or prompt elaborated answers.
The Government sees the Standard Assessment Tests as crucial to monitoring the progress of pupils and schools.
Over the washstand was a little black-framed water-colour drawing, depicting a large eye with an extremely fishlike intensity in the spark of light on the dark pupil; and in "illuminated" lettering beneath was printed very minutely, "Thou God Seest ME," followed by a long looped monogram, The Best British Short Stories of 1922
Careers officers offer impartial advice to all pupils.
If the problems are a result of bullying at school, meetings may be held with school staff, the pupil and the support worker.
The councillor found the pupils quite uninterested at first as they didn't seem to realise that the work of the council affects them.
Both teachers and pupils are looking forward to the new school term and all its challenges.
The best lessons are particularly lively and stimulating, with pupils responding with total concentration.
The pupil leaned to the ground to pick up a wallet.
GUPTA: Three hours. no heartbeat, no spontaneous respirations, pupils are dilated, which is an indication that the brain as swollen as well. CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2009
Valued added is the complex score the Department for Education and Skills uses to work out if pupils are reaching their full potential, based on performances in earlier tests.
Look at the eyes again, concentrating on the light reflex in the iris and pupil.
He said it was difficult to teach golf properly unless coaches could place their pupils' hands in a proper position on the club or turn their shoulders to demonstrate a proper swing.
They have proved themselves apt pupils, and to-day you will see in the glens of the Berg and in the plains Kaffir tillage which is as scientific as any in Africa. Prester John
No pupil can obtain a bursarship or half bursarship.
Pupils will learn recording studio tricks and produce CDs.
The school strives to treat pupils as individuals and to help each one to achieve their full potential.
She is a qualified coach and umpire who has helped develop an impressive number of pupils from the school who play in the colts teams at Ealing, Brentham, Perivale and Wembley cricket clubs.
Every pupil is supposed to be in his classroom at 9 a.m.
There are no plans to change the single sex status of Harrogate Ladies' College, which was established in 1893 and now takes girls aged 10 to 18 as day pupils or boarders.
But as we know, the pupil has now far outstripped the master.
The good news is that the pupils will probably spill the beans. Times, Sunday Times
No-one appeared to carry out an analysis of pupils' needs.
For the first time ever, humanism will be recommended for study by all pupils.
The school offers manual training to the pupils.
They can be sued for comments contained in a school report or accused of verbal abuse if they shout at a pupil.
The question set by the teacher was so difficult that the pupils did not know how to tackle it.
He was a confident person, very respectful towards staff and other pupils. The Sun
All the cards contain a computer chip which stores information, such as what type of meal has been purchased by the pupil.
He was a full-grown and rather large negro, as black as charcoal, with a splendid tier of "ivories;" and with eyeballs, pupil and irides excepted, as white as his teeth. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West
A wide variety of valuable lessons is learned at such times when the pupils strengthen their ties with the School Community.
The bell rang signalling the end of school and pupils rushed from the front exit out into the street.
Recently, the underspending on sink schools and difficult pupils has been partly reversed, but this isn't nearly enough. Times, Sunday Times
It is unlawful for a teacher to inflict corporal punishment on pupils.
Boasting all-round ability at various sports she mentioned at Huntington School, where she was a pupil, that she fancied trying to get a game of golf.
Photograph: Frank Baron schools are "gazumping" each other to attract the best pupils, research published today on school admissions has revealed. The Guardian World News
The service will be attended by pupils from William Cassidy but is open to the whole community to celebrate education.
Certificates are one outcome of schooling and will enable the pupil to compete effectively in the labour market.
A boxing instructor may teach his pupil to strike him in a given way by acting as if hurt.
Instead, children were simply held back in classes with pupils many years their junior, through what has been described as a ‘sink or swim policy’.
A simple answer would be to establish a sociology / psychology / philosophy core for all pupils.
Schools must satisfy the needs of their pupils.
They love it when the pupils spontaneously show affection or appreciation.
He said the coeducational school would expand from 500 to 800 pupils as an academy. Times, Sunday Times
Earlier this week the school held a special eco conference to discuss how pupils could do more to help make Swindon a healthier place.
Most of the ‘apt pupils’ were pulling out their various forms of white-out and re-writing their carefully thought out lives.
A slowly developing narrowing of the palpebral fissure accompanies these events, which reflect a decrease in the sympathetic innervation, which - particularly in the pupil - occurs with an increase in parasympathetic influence. Walter Hess - Nobel Lecture
But all pupils will benefit from contact with genuine artefacts from the past.
Pupils from Werneth School, in Oldham, met the professionals from the Moscow State Circus as the 200-year-old band of Russian showmen rolled into town during their UK tour.
According to the proposals, pupils would sit the exams at their own pace, regardless of their age.
Paragraph 6.10 deals with the particular problems faced by pupils with special educational needs.
They were a soft light blue, with intense dark lines reaching to the outer rims and aqua bands around her pupils.
The underlying assumption of the project is that certain computer-based experiences can help pupils bridge the gap between arithmetical and algebraic thinking.
The teacher rallied the pupils before setting out for the museum.
Under the new contracts for teachers, they will be entitled to time away from pupils while support staff take on tasks such as collecting dinner money and chasing absentees.
In a solemn ceremony pupils formally thank their teachers for their guidance, knowledge and understanding. Times, Sunday Times
They said a gang called the "Asian Invasion" was behind a campaign of bullying at the school, and demanded security guards to protect pupils. "and that" Patrick said a fight had been arranged after Henry "barged" into a group of Asian boys in a school corridor. Archive 2008-01-01
Perhaps eyes painted without black pupils seem ghostly but the painterly dabs of umber tones definitely bring this woman back to earth.
Teachers were also criticised for being too lazy to learn pupils' names. Times, Sunday Times
Often mydriasis occurs with the pupils poorly reactive or non-reactive to light.
He found her lying with a cold compress on her forehead, the pupils of her eyes strangely dilated.
He drove the idea in somehow, and hoped that his pupils would retain it.
Presumably all that has been compared is the percentage of pupils achieving certain levels at age 11 and then at 14.
Exam time was near, and more and more pupils were burning the midnight oil.
The major determinant of these so-called objective needs must be the number of pupils in each school.
Unfortunately, no trace of the Royal High School's curriculum for writing and bookkeeping at the precise time of Scott's pupilage survives.
Pupils of Wanborough Primary School packed their village church yesterday to carry on an age-old tradition.
Three local rowers, two of them oarsmen who learned their skills on the River Aire as fellow pupils at Bradford Grammar School, celebrated victory at the Henley Royal Regatta.
He was prolific - his signature is known on more than 50 vases - and inspired many pupils and imitators.
Many pupils were still asking closed questions that did not encourage or prompt elaborated answers.
Hogarth, his sometime pupil, eloped with his daughter in 1729.
Even more widespread became the theories of a pupil of Cullen's, John Brown, who regarded excitability as the fundamental property of all living creatures: too much of this excitability produced what were known as sthenic maladies, too little, asthenic; on which principles practice was plain enough. The Evolution of Modern Medicine
How many pupils are taking the geography exam this term?
Weekends can be tough for overseas pupils, weekly boarders disappear. Times, Sunday Times
Provision for the pupils' care, health, safety and welfare is very good.

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