{"id":4609,"date":"2025-09-05T12:22:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T12:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=4609"},"modified":"2026-02-17T22:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:04:09","slug":"sir-john-whittingdale-mp-visits-priory-primary-school-in-bicknacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=4609","title":{"rendered":"Priory Primary School"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4609\" class=\"elementor elementor-4609\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1531e857 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"1531e857\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-153bc020 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"153bc020\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p>On Friday, 5<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0September, Sir John Whittingdale, MP for Maldon, was delighted to visit Priory Primary School in Bicknacre in order to speak to children at a special Assembly and to answer their questions about his work as a MP.<\/p>\n\n<p>The children have recently been learning about democracy and have elected a new School Council. Sir John was also very pleased to present the newly elected members of the Council with their badges.<\/p>\n\n<p>Sir John is pictured with the members of the new School Council along with Head teacher, Ms Claire Laver and Deputy Headteacher, Mrs Yvonne Harvey<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.priory.essex.sch.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Priory Primary School &#8211; Home<\/a><\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"912\" class=\"wp-image-4610\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/prioryprimary_IMG_1511-1024x912.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visit to Priory Primary School in Bicknacre to speak with pupils about democracy, answer questions about parliamentary work and present badges to the newly elected School Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","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-4609","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\/4609","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=4609"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5314,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4609\/revisions\/5314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}