{"id":1041,"date":"2018-12-07T10:18:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T10:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2019-07-15T14:35:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T13:35:37","slug":"new-millionaires-club-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/new-millionaires-club-member\/","title":{"rendered":"New Millionaire\u2019s Club Member"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1087\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1087\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1087 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Accelerated_reader-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Accelerated_reader-2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Accelerated_reader-2-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1087\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam Hirsch (right) pictured in the library with Year 7 student, Joe Probert<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sam Hirsch is the first Year 7 pupil, since the beginning of the school year, to achieve a Bronze Award for reading over a million words with the Accelerated Reader Programme.<\/p>\n<p>In his enthusiasm, Sam \u2018clocked up\u2019 points and increased his word count by, not only reading plenty of books, but taking the online quizzes linked to the books, and achieving over 85% in each one.<\/p>\n<p>Sam reports: \u201cThe reading programme really encourages me to read a lot more and also helps to widen my vocabulary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think everyone should give it a go because it\u2019s fun and definitely worthwhile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sam\u2019s favourite books are the Percy Jackson adventure fiction series, written by American author Rick Riordan.<\/p>\n<p>Bridgnorth Endowed School\u2019s librarian, Mrs Peeler, comments: \u201cWe are very proud of Sam, who is now heading towards the two million word mark.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Accelerated Reader is a very effective programme, designed to build and encourage students to become lifelong readers and learners.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Hirsch is the first Year 7 pupil, since the beginning of the school year, to achieve a Bronze Award for reading over a million words with the Accelerated Reader Programme. In his enthusiasm, Sam \u2018clocked up\u2019 points and increased his word count by, not only reading plenty of books, but taking the online quizzes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/new-millionaires-club-member\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Millionaire\u2019s Club Member&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[20,14,2],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-awards","tag-accelerated-reader","tag-award","tag-bridgnorth-endowed-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}