Sentence examples for performing at school from inspiring English sources

My mother got on with the job of making our shabby, very small terrace feel like home and in making sure we were performing at school.

Lewis emulated the playing styles of a local preacher and black musicians, whom he surreptitiously observed during their appearances at local clubs, and was soon performing at school assemblies, talent shows, and tent revivals, as well as on the radio.

After performing at school dances they became professional artists, working on the Fifties jazz and R&B scene with Billy Eckstine, Count Basie, Betty Carter, Della Reese, Brook Benton and Jackie Wilson.

The son of a gas company truck driver, Mr. Charles grew up in Abbeville and began performing at school dances when he was 14. "Nobody in my family wanted me to get into the music business, but I always loved it," he told The Times-Picayune in 2007.

Soon Mathis was performing at school functions, community events and clubs in the San Francisco area.

In the last decades of the 20th century, the poet and storyteller Maureen Watson helped to maintain the oral tradition by reading on radio and television and by performing at schools.

Jayne Fenton, who has two deaf children, said: "When I heard they were going to make cuts I was really shocked because deaf children are already under performing at schools.

He used Elvis Presley's show biz persona, singing original traffic safety songs mixed in-between with Elvis tunes, performing at schools, county fairs, and community events with other police officers and teens who joined our program as role models to promote teen driver safety.

At the conclusion of classroom activities, students will prepare HIV-theme theatre pieces which will be performed at school level and then will proceed to competitive performances at municipal, provincial and national levels.

"There is more pressure for them to perform at school, more emphasis on extracurricular activities.

Most started young: 60% of our sample had been to the theatre before their 10th birthday, and many had performed at school and beyond.