Sentence examples for school surroundings from inspiring English sources

Although he initially felt intimidated by his school surroundings, his confidence grew as he put on "a bold, undiluted and sustained show of chutzpah", according to his biographer, Graham McCann.

To assess physical school characteristics, the following item was asked: 'What facilities exist in the indoor environment and the school surroundings available for physical activity'.

The distance may be trifling, but the new facility, opening Thursday, is a world away from the old-school surroundings of the original spa.

Six weeks ago, a vendetta of 70 or so grizzled survivors of the British rock press got together in the suitably hedonistic and old-school surroundings of a Smithfield oyster bar to do what they do best: eat a meal that someone else has paid for.

The transition — to a new home, a new school, and new surroundings — involves letting go of the old while trying to maintain a sense of self in changed circumstances.

Residents of Lille, a city in northern France, told Mr. Viellard recently that when they took an adopted child to Honduras to meet his biological mother, they were able to show the woman pictures of her son's school, home and surroundings.

Factors investigated for increasing risk for exposure to hantaviruses included living near rice paddies; engaging in farming or fishing; having wild rodents around the household; having contact with wild rodents in the workplace, school, or domestic surroundings; and storing rice in the household.

Their very surroundings schooled them in the difficulty of holding the crossroads of three continents.

Not literally, but you lose what populates the life of a child, which is their community, their schools, their physical surroundings, their stuff.

The mother of a 2-month-old boy, she said she and her husband had been drawn by reputable schools, the bucolic surroundings and the reasonably priced houses at Crestmont Manor, a subdivision that spreads across a former pasture.

The risk of an attempt was 20 percent greater among gay teenagers who lacked supportive social surroundings, like schools with gay-straight alliance groups or school policies that specifically protected gay, lesbian and bisexual students.