{"id":2420,"date":"2022-03-04T17:17:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T17:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=2420"},"modified":"2026-03-20T11:59:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:59:43","slug":"visit-to-ormiston-rivers-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=2420","title":{"rendered":"Visit to Ormiston Rivers Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/john-at-school.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2421\" width=\"416\" height=\"555\"\/><figcaption>John is pictured with Principal, Jo Williams. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>John Whittingdale visited Ormiston Rivers Academy in Burnham-on-Crouch, to meet Principal, Jo Williams, and to tour the school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John said &#8220;I was delighted to drop into a number of the lessons and to see the students learning about a wide range of subjects. In particular, I was impressed by those undertaking the Jack Petchey&nbsp;Achievement Award scheme and to give them some tips on public speaking. I was also pleased to hear from Jo Williams about the steady progress that the school is making and her wish to strengthen its links with the local community!&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find out more about <a href=\"https:\/\/ormistonriversacademy.co.uk\/\">Ormiston Rivers Academy. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Whittingdale visited Ormiston Rivers Academy in Burnham-on-Crouch, to meet Principal, Jo Williams, and to tour the school. John said &#8220;I was delighted to drop into a number of the lessons and to see the students learning about a wide range of subjects. In particular, I was impressed by those undertaking the Jack Petchey&nbsp;Achievement Award [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2424,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions\/2424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}