{"id":4581,"date":"2016-10-18T10:56:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T09:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/212.48.95.248\/greatfieldsschool.com\/?p=4581"},"modified":"2016-10-18T10:56:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T09:56:23","slug":"councillor-kangethe-visits-greatfields-for-black-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/?p=4581","title":{"rendered":"Councillor Kangethe visits Greatfields for Black History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were delighted to welcome Councillor Kangethe to speak to our students this morning as part of Black History Month. 7 Kangethe were particularly excited as their form group is named after the Councillor, who signed the noticeboard on their form wall.\u00a0The councillor gave an inspirational talk, talking to the students about her journey from Kenya to East London, culminating in her election as the mayor of Barking and Dagenham in 2013. She had two key messages for the students: never give up and always try your best. She commented on the students&#8217; behaviour saying how impressed she was with their behaviour on the playground before school and during assembly. This was a wonderful assembly for the students with a truly inspirational local figure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/212.48.95.248\/greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Councillor-Kangethe-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4583\" src=\"http:\/\/212.48.95.248\/greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Councillor-Kangethe-2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"councillor-kangethe-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Councillor-Kangethe-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Councillor-Kangethe-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Councillor-Kangethe-2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/212.48.95.248\/greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Councillor-Kangethe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4584\" src=\"http:\/\/212.48.95.248\/greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Councillor-Kangethe-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"councillor-kangethe\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Councillor-Kangethe-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Councillor-Kangethe-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Councillor-Kangethe.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were delighted to welcome Councillor Kangethe to speak to our students this morning as part of Black History Month. 7 Kangethe were particularly excited as their form group is named after the Councillor, who signed the noticeboard on their form wall.\u00a0The councillor gave an inspirational talk, talking to the students about her journey from Kenya to East London, culminating in her election as the mayor of Barking and Dagenham in 2013. She had two key messages for the students: never give up and always try your best. She commented on the students&#8217; behaviour saying how impressed she was with their behaviour on the playground before school and during assembly. This was a wonderful assembly for the students with a truly inspirational local figure. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-publications"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4585,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4581\/revisions\/4585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}