{"id":1993,"date":"2017-02-27T16:33:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T16:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=1993"},"modified":"2017-02-27T21:23:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T21:23:06","slug":"poppy-scotland-national-prize-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=1993","title":{"rendered":"Poppy Scotland &#8211; National prize winner!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Portpatrick Primary had a special surprise assembly today. \u00a0A visitor had travelled from Glasgow with a special announcement for all in school. \u00a0In November pupils in Ms Whorlow&#8217;s class entered a letter writing competition, organised by Poppy Scotland. \u00a0This competition was open to all schools in Scotland and was judged by a panel including TV presenter Kirsty Wark. \u00a0 <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">A video of Kirsty Wark announcing the winner was played to the school and parents &#8211; announcing Rowan Harbottle as the national winner! \u00a0This announcement was a fantastic surprise to all the pupils and parents. \u00a0Rowan was given a beautiful framed certificate and a mini I pad as his prize. \u00a0His letter was read out to all &#8211; demonstrating why he was a worthy winner, before many photographs were taken to mark this achievement.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">One visitor to the school remarked as they left &#8221; I thought the surprise could have been George Clooney coming into school &#8211; but this was way much better!!&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">This letter writing competition happened during the term in which p5\/6 were studying World War Two as their project. \u00a0So combined with this knowledge, and a fantastic vocabulary, Rowan put his literacy skills to very good effect.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Congratulations Rowan &#8211; we are all very proud of you!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portpatrick Primary had a special surprise assembly today. \u00a0A visitor had travelled from Glasgow with a special announcement for all in school. \u00a0In November pupils in Ms Whorlow&#8217;s class entered a letter writing competition, organised by Poppy Scotland. \u00a0This competition was open to all schools in Scotland and was judged by a panel including TV &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=1993\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Poppy Scotland &#8211; National prize winner!&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993","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\/1993","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\/640"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1999,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions\/1999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}