{"id":7637,"date":"2021-06-22T16:19:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T15:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/?p=7637"},"modified":"2021-06-22T16:19:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T15:19:43","slug":"bridgnorth-endowed-welcomes-local-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/bridgnorth-endowed-welcomes-local-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridgnorth Endowed Welcomes Local MP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/mp-visit.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/mp-visit.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/mp-visit-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Left to right: William, Ruby, Ellie, Stella, Lara, Philip Dunne MP, Amy, Oliver and Evie<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Conservative MP for Ludlow, Mr Philip Dunne, paid a visit to Bridgnorth Endowed School last Friday and met with Headteacher, Mr Worth, and next year&#8217;s newly-elected House Captains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The long-standing Member of Parliament approached the school in a bid to find out how things have been going in the wake of all the disruption and discuss any specific issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After enjoying a short talk on Mr Dunne\u2019s 16-year political background, the Year 10 students were then given the opportunity to take part in a question-and-answer session to dig a little deeper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The conversation covered local flooding, apprenticeships plummeting to a ten-year low, and what the government is doing to encourage young people to vote Conservative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The students were given full and frank responses, together with plenty of insight into how things work in government \u2013 something they all found incredibly interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commenting on the meeting, Mr Worth said: \u201cIt was a privilege to see our local representative engage with our students, developing their citizenship skills and raising issues that impact on their lives.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We would like to thank Mr Dunne for his visit and very much look forward to welcoming him again in the near future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative MP for Ludlow, Mr Philip Dunne, paid a visit to Bridgnorth Endowed School last Friday and met with Headteacher, Mr Worth, and next year&#8217;s newly-elected House Captains. The long-standing Member of Parliament approached the school in a bid to find out how things have been going in the wake of all the disruption and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/bridgnorth-endowed-welcomes-local-mp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bridgnorth Endowed Welcomes Local MP&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,136,135,35],"class_list":["post-7637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-school-news","tag-bridgnorth-endowed-school","tag-mp","tag-mr-philip-dunne","tag-shropshire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637","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=7637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}