{"id":684,"date":"2012-10-11T14:00:34","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/?p=684"},"modified":"2012-11-01T10:25:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T10:25:58","slug":"fire-station-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/2012\/10\/11\/fire-station-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire station fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<address>Primary 1-4 at Leswalt Primary recently concluded their study of \u201cPeople who help us\u201d with a trip into Stranraer Fire station.\u00a0 The boys and girls went in to learn all about the role of the Fire Brigade in the community.<\/address>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #993366\">The visit began with pupils learning all about the uniform and why the Fire Brigade wear it.\u00a0 Some of the small pupils even got to try on the large uniform themselves.\u00a0 Fire safety was also discussed, with pupils being reminded about the importance of having a smoke alarm in their home.<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #993366\">\u00a0<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #993366\">Tanya Ellis explained to the pupils all about the role of the Fire Brigade before they went outside to meet Tony Reid and see the fire engines up close.\u00a0 Pupils learnt all about water hydrants before being allowed to use the fire hose.\u00a0 The highlight of the visit for all was a seat in the Fire Engine.<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #993366\">\u00a0<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #993366\">It was a very active, informative afternoon for all.\u00a0 Kathryn Topping in P4 summed it up by saying \u201cIt felt like I was a proper fire-fighter when I was using the hose!\u201d\u00a0 To which Jack Rickard in P3 added \u201cYes, the hose was awesome!\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primary 1-4 at Leswalt Primary recently concluded their study of \u201cPeople who help us\u201d with a trip into Stranraer Fire station.\u00a0 The boys and girls went in to learn all about the role of the Fire Brigade in the community. \u00a0 The visit began with pupils learning all about the uniform and why the Fire &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/2012\/10\/11\/fire-station-fun\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fire station fun&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":640,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletters","category-photo-galleries"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/640"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}