{"id":3066,"date":"2023-07-15T15:34:09","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T15:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=3066"},"modified":"2023-08-16T15:36:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T15:36:11","slug":"visit-to-plume-academy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=3066","title":{"rendered":"Visit to Plume Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>14th July<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sir\u00a0John\u00a0Whittingdale visited the Plume Academy for a meeting with Carl Wakefield, Executive Principal, prior to his leaving the post.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John\u00a0and Carl discussed the plans to expand the school to accommodate the growing number of families moving to Maldon as well as the progress made under his headship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his visit, John also\u00a0took part in the cyclathon organised by staff and pupils to raise funds for charities. \u00a0Teachers Craig Farrow and Rob Howlett organised the fund raiser in memory of teachers Matt Preece, Mandy McGee and Ade Onakomaiya who all died after a battle with cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> A total of \u00a31, 263.73 was raised which is being split between The David Randall Foundation for Matt, Fair Havens Hospice for Mandy and Macmillan Cancer for Ade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"690\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/thumbnail_IMG_5514-1024x690.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/thumbnail_IMG_5514-1024x690.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/thumbnail_IMG_5514-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/thumbnail_IMG_5514-768x517.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/thumbnail_IMG_5514.jpg 1344w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>John\u00a0said:<\/strong><br><em> \u201cCarl Wakefield has done a fantastic job during his time at the Plume and will be greatly missed. He has not only raised standards but made the Plume Academy a central part of the local community. Typical of this was the fundraising effort in memory of three much-loved teachers and I was delighted that I was also able to support this\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14th July Sir\u00a0John\u00a0Whittingdale visited the Plume Academy for a meeting with Carl Wakefield, Executive Principal, prior to his leaving the post.\u00a0 John\u00a0and Carl discussed the plans to expand the school to accommodate the growing number of families moving to Maldon as well as the progress made under his headship. During his visit, John also\u00a0took part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3067,"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-3066","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\/3066","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=3066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3068,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066\/revisions\/3068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}