(1) At Duncroft, according to some reports, he would stay in the headmistress's quarters.
(2) Alex Brightman (no relation to Sarah) plays a dissolute substitute elementary school teacher who molds his charges into a nifty band; Sierra Boggess is the headmistress of his heart.
(3) After two days, the headmistress told them that they all have to wear the hijab when they come to school.
(4) William Richardson, general secretary of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, said: "We are pleased that after 17 months, Ofqual has acknowledged and begun to address some of the failings that HMC has been highlighting.
(5) It was also where she intended to build an academy for girls, which never happened (though Madonna still helped build classrooms), all against a backdrop of missing millions, for which Madonna's side blamed the sacked prospective academy headmistress (also the Malawian president's sister), while there has been an ongoing investigation into the role of the Kabbalah Centre in New York … and (phew) see what I mean?
(6) Richardson's study was commissioned by the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC), an association of 250 private schools including Eton and Harrow.
(7) The age of chivalry is dead.” The novel’s theme, deftly laid out in a narrative that flashes backwards and forwards, to and from the 1930s, is the education of six wonderfully distinctive, heartless and romantic 10-year-old girls (Monica, Sandy, Rose, Mary, Jenny, and Eunice) and the covert classroom drama that leads to Miss Brodie’s “betrayal”, her peremptory dismissal from Marcia Blaine by her great enemy, the headmistress, Miss Mackay.
(8) The headmistress introduced us all to Jimmy Savile and he gave us all a kiss and he stuck his tongue in my mouth.
(9) In a wide-ranging assault on the policies of successive governments, Tim Hands, the head of Magdalen College school who takes over as chairman of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, told the group's annual meeting on Monday that excessive interference and obsession with league tables had "emasculated the education system of this country".
(10) From a fairly conventional start, Louise Bagshawe, the daughter of a stockbroker and headmistress in Sussex, went to Oxford and then into the music industry where she was accused of partying hard with Nigel Kennedy and wearing Metallica T-shirts, before being spotted by Sharon Osborne.
(11) When I was a kid, Thatcher was the headmistress of our country.
(12) Dame Suzi Leather, chair of the commission, told the annual meeting of the Headmasters and Headmistresses Conference today that due to the economic climate, private schools may need up to five years to meet the test's requirements.
(13) Andrew Grant, chair of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, said politicians and other critics of the fee-paying system should be grateful for the money parents are saving for the state sector.
(14) Forcing a woman to wear a veil has become illegal after a village school headmistress received sexually coloured remarks from an education official for having her hair uncovered.
(15) The real significance of Suzi Leather's comments to the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference is that there has been no change of view in the commission on wider public benefit versus bursaries.
(16) His mother was headmistress of the primary school, and had served as mayor.
(17) Her headmistress told her, "You have brought shame and disgrace on to this school."
(18) "When I was a kid, Thatcher was the headmistress of our country," Brand wrote.
(19) This was about Burke's early reference to her as Harry Potter headmistress Dolores Umbridge.
(20) "Both my mother and my school headmistress felt I would be wasting my education by going into the church," she told one interviewer.
Schoolmaster
Definition:
(n.) The man who presides over and teaches a school; a male teacher of a school.
(n.) One who, or that which, disciplines and directs.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Herbert Ross's Goodbye Mr Chips (1969), based on the Terence Rattigan stage play, he won hearts as well as minds with a tender performance as the shy schoolmaster who falls in love with Petula Clark, and in 1972 he gave an extraordinary turn in a cult movie rarely revived now, Peter Medak's The Ruling Class, in which he played a young man who succeeds to an earldom after the ageing incumbent dies in an auto-erotic strangling incident, and reveals that he believes himself to be Jesus Christ.
(2) Chris Keates, the general secretary of the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers, said: “Had the review body not been constrained by the arbitrary pay cap imposed by the government, there is no doubt that it would have been recommending a pay uplift higher than 1% for teachers.” Kevin Courtney, acting general secretary of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), said it was “shameful” that Morgan had failed to address the STRB’s concerns over staff shortages.
(3) Chris Keates, general secretary of the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers, said: "It's what lies behind the figures, rather than the figures themselves, which should be the focus of attention.
(4) In another age, he might have become a schoolmaster or a colonial civil servant.
(5) Or Johnson, E – said, with accompanying admonitory finger-wagging and in a schoolmasterly tone by tweeters, emailers, etc up until that last, goal-scoring moment.
(6) For 10 years, Rolfe was a provincial schoolmaster and would-be Roman Catholic priest.
(7) He contributed to two more Granada anthologies, Nightingale's Boys (1975) exploring an old schoolmaster's reunion with a succession of former pupils, and Red Letter Day (1976), the challenge of which title provoked an incestuous comic masterpiece from Rosenthal, Ready When You Are, Mr McGill, in the same year.
(8) Graham Chapman recalled Davies as "not a very human person … if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pause in speech, he would treat you rather as if he was a schoolmaster".
(9) His schoolmaster's voice, formal and clipped, softens at last into something approaching bemusement.
(10) To lecture China like a schoolmaster and with a sense of superiority is not acceptable.
(11) With his father standing on the steps in his corner, clapping impatiently like a schoolmaster, Eubank swished air way too often in the first five rounds.
(12) Chris Keates, general secretary of the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers, couches her remarks in broad political terms – she's due to have her first official meeting with Wilshaw later this week.
(13) "I'm one of those people who was told by schoolmasters that he liked the sound of his own voice," he has said.
(14) A schoolmasterly, sometimes even hectoring, campaigner known as Sascha in reference to his Russian roots, he led the Greens from 1997 to 2008, turning the party into the country’s fourth biggest political force and stepping down only after elections in which it lost votes for the first time in a decade.
(15) After Makerere University, in Kampala, he taught for three years, admitting, later in life, that he was a schoolmaster by choice and a politician by accident.
(16) If it fails to do so, the NUT will proceed with its ballot and – based on the combative mood in Harrogate – go ahead even without support from its fellow teaching trade union, the more moderate NASUWT (National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers).