{"id":4969,"date":"2017-05-17T12:48:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T11:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/?p=4969"},"modified":"2017-05-17T12:48:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T11:48:01","slug":"visit-to-the-technical-skills-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/?p=4969","title":{"rendered":"Visit to the Technical Skills Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday morning 30 Greatfields students visited the Technical Skills Academy, just behind Barking Market. The students were able to take part in taster sessions for career training in hairdressing, beauty and IT\/Programming. All three sessions were interactive and students were able to gain some hands-on experience. They were able to have lunch alongside the older students and finished the day with a tour of the construction facility which offers training in many trades including plumbing, bricklaying and plastering.<\/p>\n<p>The students thoroughly enjoyed themselves and many were keen to find out how they can work towards studying at the Skills Academy post-16.<\/p>\n<p>As usual their behaviour was exemplary and they were a credit to the school.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/thumbnail_IMG_2515.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4971\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/thumbnail_IMG_2515-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/thumbnail_IMG_2515-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/thumbnail_IMG_2515-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/thumbnail_IMG_2515.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/thumbnail_IMG_2517.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4972\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/thumbnail_IMG_2517-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/thumbnail_IMG_2517-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/thumbnail_IMG_2517-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/thumbnail_IMG_2517.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/thumbnail_IMG_2522.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4973\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/thumbnail_IMG_2522-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/thumbnail_IMG_2522-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/thumbnail_IMG_2522-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/thumbnail_IMG_2522.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday morning 30 Greatfields students visited the Technical Skills Academy, just behind Barking Market. The students were able to take part in taster sessions for career training in hairdressing, beauty and IT\/Programming. All three sessions were interactive and students were able to gain some hands-on experience. They were able to have lunch alongside the older students and finished the day with a tour of the construction facility which offers training in many trades including plumbing, bricklaying and plastering. The students thoroughly enjoyed themselves and many were keen to find out how they can work towards studying at the Skills Academy post-16. As usual their behaviour was exemplary and they were a credit to the school. &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-4969","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\/4969"}],"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=4969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4974,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions\/4974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}