{"id":23067,"date":"2025-12-12T12:31:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T12:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jorichardson.org.uk\/?p=23067"},"modified":"2025-12-12T12:31:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T12:31:19","slug":"black-history-month-special-guest-in-year-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jorichardson.creativeschools.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/12\/12\/black-history-month-special-guest-in-year-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month  &#8211; Special guest in Year 7!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Year 7 were treated to a special assembly delivered by boxer Colin McMillan. The focus for the week in Black History Month was sport, and his visit was a wonderful opportunity for our Year 7s to hear all about achieving their dreams through hard work and resilience.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Colin started boxing when he attended a local boxing club in Dagenham at the age of 15 and had a dream of being a World Champion. Colin achieved the British Featherweight Champion title twice and was crowned Commonwealth Featherweight Champion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was such a pleasure to have him talk to the students and answer their many questions. We are fortunate!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ms Draisey<\/p>\n<p>Head of Year 7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-year-7"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorichardson.creativeschools.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorichardson.creativeschools.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorichardson.creativeschools.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorichardson.creativeschools.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorichardson.creativeschools.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jorichardson.creativeschools.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorichardson.creativeschools.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorichardson.creativeschools.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorichardson.creativeschools.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorichardson.creativeschools.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}