{"id":6797,"date":"2017-03-07T22:47:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T22:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/?p=6797"},"modified":"2017-03-09T22:33:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T22:33:18","slug":"poppy-scotland-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/?p=6797","title":{"rendered":"Poppy Scotland Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <strong>big<\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;well done&#8221; to Vera in P6 who came runner up in the Primary School Category &#8220;Letters Home&#8221; Competition:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.poppyscotland.org.uk\/winners-announced-in-letters-home-competition\/\">http:\/\/www.poppyscotland.org.uk\/winners-announced-in-letters-home-competition\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In November, Primary 6 entered the &#8216;Letters Home&#8217; competition where they were challenged to imagine they were a soldier writing home from the\u00a0Battle of the Somme. Pupils were to focus on the power of words to express feeling and how people may have been affected by war and conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Vera&#8217;s letter went through two shortlisting processes and was singled out by the judging panel above hundreds of other entries. The judging panel was led by the TV presenter Kirsty Wark and\u00a0also included Mark Bibbey, CEO Poppyscotland, Ruby McCann, Chair of Scottish Writers&#8217; Centre and Yvonne Caddell.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-6797 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/?attachment_id=6799'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Vera-Assembly-2-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Vera-Assembly-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Vera-Assembly-2.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/?attachment_id=6798'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Vera-Assembly-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Vera-Assembly-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Vera-Assembly.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Vera got a special mention at Friday&#8217;s assembly where she received her certificate and prize.<\/p>\n<p>Well done Vera!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A big\u00a0&#8220;well done&#8221; to Vera in P6 who came runner up in the Primary School Category &#8220;Letters Home&#8221; Competition:\u00a0http:\/\/www.poppyscotland.org.uk\/winners-announced-in-letters-home-competition\/ In<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":6798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,52],"class_list":["post-6797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-p6","tag-poppy-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6797"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6806,"href":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797\/revisions\/6806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}