Sentence examples for called pupils from inspiring English sources

Prospective primary-school teachers are normally called pupils and not students and are often addressed in the familiar forms of speech (tu or du instead of vous, usted, or Sie), in contrast to university students.

Teachers call pupils 'scumbags' and the head flicks V-signs at his deputy".

The show is "sickening to watch", wrote Christopher Stevens, objecting to Mitchell's loose tie and habit of calling pupils "mate".

The ruling party has called for pupils to spend yet more hours studying Dokdo.

Nicol Williamson's English teacher at Central grammar school, Birmingham – and part inspiration for his famous role as Merlin – was Tom Reader, a charming, gentle scholar who affectionately called his pupils and colleagues "chums" or "rogues".

Updated at 6.25pm BST 5.02pm BST The Lib Dem schools motion being debated this afternoon would have been reasonably significant, because it called for pupils leaving primary school to be tested through internal procedures - which would have meant the abolition of Sats at key stage two.

Mr Gove has called for pupils to have a core of knowledge, a set of basic facts and information that can become the foundation for more advanced work.

The centre of this ring is called the pupil.

Iris, in anatomy, the pigmented muscular curtain near the front of the eye, between the cornea and the lens, that is perforated by an opening called the pupil.

Indeed, when he first showed work at the Paris Salon of 1859, Pissarro called himself "Pupil of A. Melbye," a title he continued to use until 1866.

The author, who caused controversy when he called a pupil fat in a reality TV show, claimed that good teachers and tougher discipline would be more useful than extra resources and expensive facilities.