{"id":2971,"date":"2014-02-27T17:07:21","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T16:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/?p=2971"},"modified":"2014-02-27T17:08:56","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T16:08:56","slug":"rnib-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/2014\/02\/27\/rnib-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"RNIB Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nA speaker from the RNIB (Royal National Institute of Blind People) visited the school recently to talk to S4 English pupils who have been tuding Edwin Morgan’s poem, ‘In the Snack-bar’.<\/p>\n

Pupils listened attentively as Ken Reid described his every day life and answered questions that pupils had prepared. <\/p>\n

Here is some feedback from pupils:<\/p>\n

“I found the fact that Ken could still negotiate around and cook for himself interesting.”
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\n“I found the visit from Ken interesting because it helped me understand the diffiiculties that blind people have to cope with every day.”<\/p>\n

After the S4 class, Ken went on to talk to the first years at their assembly. An enlightening experience for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A speaker from the RNIB (Royal National Institute of Blind People) visited the school recently to talk to S4 English pupils who have been tuding Edwin Morgan’s poem, ‘In the Snack-bar’. Pupils listened attentively as Ken Reid described his every day life and answered questions that pupils had prepared. Here is some feedback from pupils: … Continue reading RNIB Visit<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[592,12605,73,1741],"class_list":["post-2971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-us","tag-cfe","tag-english-dept","tag-pupils","tag-s4"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2971"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2973,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions\/2973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Barrhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}