It may be as simple as aircraft noise interfering with teachers communicating with pupils, or it may be that pupils focus their attention so narrowly in noisy conditions that they exclude useful speech as well as unwanted noise.
A few things are able to interrupt a daydreaming girl: an attractive male arrives at an adjacent spot, the darting pupils focus on a point in space, and the smile is replaced by a look of intense concentration.
Drysdale placed the baseball back into Ted's hand, and Ted wondered if "kid" was tongue in cheek, a jab between middle-aged men, or merely a function of the bottom line, pupils focussed on the endgame of ink.
Livingstone's first free school of 800 pupils – focusing on science, technology, engineering, art and maths, and developing "computing, coding and creative skills" – is planned for Hammersmith, in London, in 2016.
On its website, the school says: "We feel it is important to help pupils focus on their role within the school and outline to them how they can help themselves and others.
This should come as no surprise, because while UK schools do have some great teachers and resources to support the learning of mathematics, it is generally not used on high-ability pupils and focused almost exclusively on middle-ability pupils.
The two parallel illumination beams are spatially separated at the eye pupil before focused on the same spot on the retina, and the detection is performed via a dual interferometer setup.
In each of the four communities, at baseline and in follow-up years, there will be: mapping and spatial analyses of tobacco retail outlets; tobacco advertising and marketing audits of tobacco retail outlets most used by young people; cross-sectional school surveys of secondary school pupils; and focus group interviews with purposive samples of secondary school pupils.
