{"id":1403,"date":"2022-02-11T16:01:26","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T16:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2022-02-11T16:01:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T16:01:26","slug":"learning-from-an-expert-in-their-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/2022\/02\/11\/learning-from-an-expert-in-their-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning from an expert in their field&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday the Year 6 children were treated to an audience with Polly Ho Yen, author of &#8216;Boy in the Tower&#8217; &#8211; a novel that they have studied in Year 5.<\/p>\n<p>They learned about her journey to becoming a novelist and Polly really conveyed the message to the children that, &#8216;Yes you can!&#8217; do anything in life. She pursued her passion for writing stories that interested her and this was her epiphany &#8211; &#8216;This is what I want to do, <em>so I will<\/em>!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/02\/Polly-Ho-Yen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1405\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/02\/Polly-Ho-Yen-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/02\/Polly-Ho-Yen-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/02\/Polly-Ho-Yen-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/02\/Polly-Ho-Yen-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/02\/Polly-Ho-Yen.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The children will be able to deploy her wisdom into some story writing next week, where they will write a narrative about when Shackleton&#8217;s Endurance succumbs to the forces of the Weddell Sea and the pack ice.<\/p>\n<p>Have a wonderful weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Year 6 team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday the Year 6 children were treated to an audience with Polly Ho Yen, author of &#8216;Boy in the Tower&#8217; &#8211; a novel that they have studied in Year 5. They learned about her journey to becoming a novelist and Polly really conveyed the message to the children that, &#8216;Yes you can!&#8217; do anything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1406,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions\/1406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}