{"id":5613,"date":"2018-02-08T07:35:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T07:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/?p=5613"},"modified":"2018-02-08T07:35:52","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T07:35:52","slug":"students-visit-the-goldsmiths-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/?p=5613","title":{"rendered":"Students visit the Goldsmiths&#8217; Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">20 pupils from Year 8 were lucky enough to be invited to The Goldsmiths&#8217; Centre in Farringdon, central London. The pupils were met by Chris Oliver (Head of Professional Training) , Kevin Wilson (Course Leader of the Foundation Programme) \u00a0and Maggie Connolly. Chris and Kevin spoke to the pupils about the Goldsmiths&#8217; Apprenticeship Scheme; a scheme in which you young people are employed and trained by a number of companies affiliated to the Goldsmiths&#8217; Centre. They also discussed the Foundation Programme that is run at the Goldsmiths&#8217; Centre. This programme is open to young people aged 16- 19 years of age. This is a free year long programme which provides course skills to begin working in jewellery, silversmithing and the allied industries. Young people on the course are taught by the UK&#8217;s leading craftspeople. Our pupils were given advice on how they could apply for the programme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">The pupils were then taken on a tour of the workshops, they got to speak with some young apprentices and also had the opportunity to design some of their own jewellery with Chris and Maggie&#8217;s assistance. They also got to see the current jewellery\u00a0exhibition\u00a0on show at the centre.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">The staff at the Goldsmiths&#8217; Centre commented on how creative our pupils are and also on how well behaved and friendly they were.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_3808-e1518075174725.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_3808-e1518075174725-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_3808-e1518075174725-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_3808-e1518075174725-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a 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The pupils were met by Chris Oliver (Head of Professional Training) , Kevin Wilson (Course Leader of the Foundation Programme) \u00a0and Maggie Connolly. Chris and Kevin spoke to the pupils about the Goldsmiths&#8217; Apprenticeship Scheme; a scheme in which you young people are employed and trained by a number of companies affiliated to the Goldsmiths&#8217; Centre. They also discussed the Foundation Programme that is run at the Goldsmiths&#8217; Centre. This programme is open to young people aged 16- 19 years of age. This is a free year long programme which provides course skills to begin working in jewellery, silversmithing and the allied industries. Young people on the course are taught by the UK&#8217;s leading craftspeople. Our pupils were given advice on how they could apply for the programme. The pupils were then taken on a tour of the workshops, they got to speak with some young apprentices and also had the opportunity to design some of their own jewellery with Chris and Maggie&#8217;s assistance. They also got to see the current jewellery\u00a0exhibition\u00a0on show at the centre.\u00a0 The staff at the Goldsmiths&#8217; Centre commented on how creative our pupils are and also on how well behaved and friendly they were.\u00a0 &nbsp; &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-5613","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\/5613"}],"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=5613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5625,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613\/revisions\/5625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}