Sentence examples for bright pupil from inspiring English sources

A bright pupil in the 8th grade delights in tripping up the teacher on grammar rules.

"She was a bright pupil, but she mucked about and she didn't really put her mind to things," her mother told me.

By John T. Winterich The New Yorker, May 24 , 1947P. 65 A bright pupil in the 8th grade delights in tripping up the teacher on grammar rules.

He was a bright pupil and sat for hours absorbing classics such as Robert Tressell's The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist and Jack London's The Call of the Wild.

You stare into the blanched surfaces of her canvases, noticing a whisper of a form that is not quite audible, become distracted by another notation – a bright pupil, a trace of water – and the picture changes.

Christina, a bright pupil who hoped to become a nurse or carer, got on the number 9 bus in Birmingham city centre on the morning of 7 March last year and sat on the top deck.

Bright pupils were allowed to eat first; the least able went last.

Supported by eight independent schools, including Eton and Highgate, it concentrates on admitting bright pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Around half of England's 164 grammar schools plan to prioritise bright pupils from poorer families in their admissions policies.

His award-winning play about bright pupils at a Yorkshire grammar school, The History Boys, is enjoying its last hurrah in London's West End.

A social networking site, described as a "thinking teenager's Facebook", that aims to prepare bright pupils for top universities, has attracted more than 2,500 members.