{"id":13493,"date":"2015-12-04T16:41:12","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T15:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/?p=13493"},"modified":"2015-12-04T16:41:12","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T15:41:12","slug":"primary-futures-a-campaign-to-show-children-why-literacy-maths-and-science-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/2015\/12\/04\/primary-futures-a-campaign-to-show-children-why-literacy-maths-and-science-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary Futures &#8211; a campaign to show children why literacy, maths and science matters."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/files\/2015\/12\/catherine-calderwood-june-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-13494 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/files\/2015\/12\/catherine-calderwood-june-small.jpg\" alt=\"catherine-calderwood-june-small\" width=\"260\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a>Scotland\u2019s new Chief Medical Officer Dr Catherine Calderwood today visited Sciennes Primary School in Edinburgh to launch the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inspiringthefuture.org\/schools-and-colleges\/primary-futures-primary-schools\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Arial\">Primary Futures \u2018Who\u2019s in Health?<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial\">\u2019 campaign; to help young children understand how people in the health sector use literacy, maths and science in their jobs.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial\">Who\u2019s in Health? is a free initiative for state primary schools run by the Education and Employers charity in partnership with the Medical Schools Council. It encourages volunteers from the healthcare sector to visit primary schools and chat informally to children about their jobs. This is to help the children (aged 7\u201311) see the relevance of what they are learning &#8211; especially in science, mathematics and English &#8211; and to broaden and raise their future aspirations. Volunteers may be hospital doctors, GPs, nurses, ambulance drivers, high street pharmacists, healthcare assistants, dieticians, surgeons, midwives, students and researchers to name just a few. Volunteers and schools connect via the free online service Primary Futures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more about the campaign <a href=\"http:\/\/news.scotland.gov.uk\/News\/Primary-Futures-Who-s-In-Health-1fd9.aspx\">here<\/a>\u00a0or follow\u00a0Dr Calderwood&#8217;s journey as <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scotland.gov.uk\/cmo\/2015\/12\/03\/hello-online-world-this-my-first-blog-post-as-chief-medical-officer\/\">Chief Medical Officer on her blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scotland\u2019s new Chief Medical Officer Dr Catherine Calderwood today visited Sciennes Primary School in Edinburgh to launch the Primary Futures \u2018Who\u2019s in Health?\u2019 campaign; to help young children understand how people in the health sector use literacy, maths and science in their jobs.\u00a0 Who\u2019s in Health? is a free initiative for state primary schools run by the Education and Employers charity in partnership with the Medical Schools Council. It encourages<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/2015\/12\/04\/primary-futures-a-campaign-to-show-children-why-literacy-maths-and-science-matters\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,13,40,21,39,44],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-13493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-wellbeing","category-health-and-wellbeing-responsibility-of-all","category-literacy","category-mathematics","category-sciences","category-skills","category-technologies","tag-resources"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}