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Teachers at Abercorn School in St John s Wood used rap and sea shanties to celebrate World Book Day.
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Usually World Book Day is simply a good excuse for schoolchildren to dress up and for teachers and parents to encourage reading.
This year, with schools forced to teach remotely, staff at Abercorn Pre-Prep in St John s Wood had a left-field idea for the day on Thursday (March 4).
Led by English teacher Katy Shuttleworth, teachers have produced videos where they rap - and in some cases sing - some of their favourite children s books.
JEA: Multiple safeguards in place to protect water system
Jacksonville’s utility monitoring investigation into Oldsmar water system hack
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – JEA wants to reassure its customers that water treated at the utility’s facilities is safe to drink because of the layers of protocols in place.
At the JEA downtown water treatment facility, Kevin Holbrooks is the director of environmental compliance, and it’s his job to make sure the city’s water is safe. He said the attempted poisoning of drinking water at a treatment facility in the city of Oldsmar in Pinellas County is concerning.
OTTAWA Post-secondary school nursing programs in Ottawa are seeing a spike in applications for enrolment since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the University of Ottawa, interest in the undergrad program has increased slightly, but applications for graduate programs have surged. Dr. Dawn Stacey is a nurse and a full-time professor at the university. In the masters of nursing program, we have a 69 per cent increase in applications, and in the masters combined with nurse practitioners program we have seen a 117 per cent increase in applications, said Stacey. At first, we were in shock because these numbers are quite significantly bigger.
Nothing is too fantastic now: Donald Trumpâs gift to fiction writers
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Michael Brissenden has written a book about crime and politics. Itâs a murder case where the suggestion of terrorism is exploited for electoral advantage and the investigators are as conflicted and compromised as those they hunt. Itâs all set in a city where white nationalists collaborate with ethnic crime gangs for profit, and corruption reaches the highest levels of power.
âItâs all complete fiction but itâs not beyond the realms of possibility,â Brissenden says. âAnythingâs possible and we know, weâve seen in Australia, everywhere in the world really, that these things can be possible.â
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