{"id":11976,"date":"2022-09-30T11:26:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T11:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=11976"},"modified":"2022-09-30T12:26:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T12:26:33","slug":"careers-in-maths-remembering-our-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=11976","title":{"rendered":"Careers Talk and Remembering Our Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>As part of learning about Careers, we were treated to a visit from Charles &amp; Kate Vickery today.\u00a0 They were very happy to talk to the children about their interesting jobs and take questions.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-11976 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?attachment_id=11987'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2022\/09\/30114012\/309543629_637378707792905_7764179352016714160_n-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/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:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?attachment_id=11988'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2022\/09\/30114015\/310087014_479529057543224_7285522005042851876_n-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>Kate works in leadership management and studied psychology.\u00a0 She was interested in television and took every opportunity to work in this industry and link it to her passions.\u00a0 She helps leaders with their emotions, how they can be better leaders and support others.\u00a0 She is a consultant and uses technology to link with clients around the world, particularly during the pandemic.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Kate advised the children to aim to work with their interests, posing the question &#8211; what do you love to do now? She said the boys and girls should pursue jobs that fit those interests and put their energy into that. She recommends that children think of alternative ways of working and to think about being entrepreneurs and setting up their own businesses.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>Charles is a serial tech entrepreneur in media creation and uses many skills in his daily work. He shared that when he was four years old, he didn&#8217;t speak.\u00a0 He just loved making sounds and wasn&#8217;t ready for words.\u00a0 He learned to understand how to communicate in a more meaningful way fo him.\u00a0 He got into drama with his first experience of just one line to say and really liked it.\u00a0 His enjoyment of singing led to him being in a choir. The choir leader asked him to sing like an opera singer.\u00a0 He found his passion within himself, by &#8216;pretending&#8217; to sing in this style and it has grown from there.\u00a0 He demonstrated his fabulous singing voice for the children.\u00a0 He wanted to remind the children that there are ways for us all to &#8216;find our voice&#8217;.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Atticus asked how many performances Charles has done &#8211; too many to remember.\u00a0 Charles has learned to sing in many different languages; French, Italian etc.\u00a0 He told us that the male voice doesn&#8217;t mature until about 21 years old, so lots of practice helps.\u00a0 His biggest audience was 40,000 people with the Pope in the audience.\u00a0 He has sung in Greece, Rome, New York and many places around the world.\u00a0 An interesting fact is that an opera singer uses the same amount of oxygen in an opera performance as a marathon runner. Katie asked how long Charles can hold a note for.\u00a0 It&#8217;s about 9 seconds.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It was a very interesting and informative discussion, with questions from our wrapt audience.\u00a0 We were treated to a performance of Maria from West Side story to bring the visit to a close.\u00a0 Thank you to Kate and Charles for sharing their career insights with us in a wonderful session.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2022\/09\/30114152\/309669924_411520777619893_8688567465936682751_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11990\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2022\/09\/30114152\/309669924_411520777619893_8688567465936682751_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2022\/09\/30114152\/309669924_411520777619893_8688567465936682751_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2022\/09\/30114152\/309669924_411520777619893_8688567465936682751_n-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2022\/09\/30114152\/309669924_411520777619893_8688567465936682751_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2022\/09\/30114152\/309669924_411520777619893_8688567465936682751_n-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2022\/09\/30114152\/309669924_411520777619893_8688567465936682751_n.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"width: 368px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-11976-1\" width=\"368\" height=\"656\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2022\/09\/30114150\/video-c60ab58a-8727-4968-9379-806fe7e1277b-1664537641.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2022\/09\/30114150\/video-c60ab58a-8727-4968-9379-806fe7e1277b-1664537641.mp4\">https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2022\/09\/30114150\/video-c60ab58a-8727-4968-9379-806fe7e1277b-1664537641.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div># Successful Learners<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As part of the Queen&#8217;s Jubilee celebrations, we have received a delivery of beautiful books that detail the life of Queen Elizabeth II.\u00a0 Their arrival is poignant after her recent sad passing.\u00a0 The children were gifted a book each as a memento of her life.\u00a0 We hope they enjoy reading them.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-11976 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?attachment_id=11977'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2022\/09\/30104709\/309182894_600255701880527_7865997305430079655_n-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/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:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?attachment_id=11978'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2022\/09\/30104712\/309450214_2102262776646753_5185463366612412261_n-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of learning about Careers, we were treated to a visit from Charles &amp; Kate Vickery today.\u00a0 They were very happy to talk to the children about their interesting jobs and take questions. Kate works in leadership management and studied psychology.\u00a0 She was interested in television and took every opportunity to work in this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=11976\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Careers Talk and Remembering Our Queen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11913,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11976"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11997,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11976\/revisions\/11997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}