First recorded in 1825–35
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In every area, childminders play a crucial role in plugging gaps in care, especially outside of normal school hours, but this data shows that they are, on average, £55 a week more than holiday clubs.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2025
As one slide at a meeting for parents said: “We feel confident about allowing a return to normal school operations, giving discretion to site administrators to pivot should conditions change.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2025
The legislation also allowed space for professional development for teachers within a normal school day.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
Because I was a television actor, I wasn't being considered for films, so after a season would end, I'd just go back to my normal school.
From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2023
Probably Miss Myrt herself had never darkened the door of the normal school, or even been to Terre Haute.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
The international team of co-authors also includes researchers from Monash University and the Museums Victoria Research Institute in Australia; the Benemérita Normal School of Coahuila in Mexico and the Smithsonian Institution.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 16, 2023
Once she graduated from high school, Mabovitch attended Milwaukee Normal School and trained to become a teacher.
From National Geographic ● Sep. 12, 2023
The brick hall named for McMullen was finished in 1935 and was the first structure at what was then Eastern Montana Normal School.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2022
“There was one on Salem Common at one point. There was one next to the Broad Street Cemetery, where Salem Normal School was built,” Ratliff said.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 26, 2019
At the nearby Normal School, for example, the number of women applying to become teacher trainees was said to be many times the usual.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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