{"id":1265,"date":"2014-11-17T14:55:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T14:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southwickprimary.co.uk\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2019-09-23T13:43:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T13:43:47","slug":"childrens-commissioners-takeover-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southwickprimary.co.uk\/whats-the-buzz\/childrens-commissioners-takeover-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Children&#8217;s Commissioner&#8217;s Takeover Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1267 alignleft lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.southwickprimary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/takeover-logo.png\" alt=\"takeover-logo\" width=\"253\" height=\"104\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 253px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 253\/104;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1267 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.southwickprimary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/takeover-logo.png\" alt=\"takeover-logo\" width=\"253\" height=\"104\" \/><\/noscript>Takeover Day is a national event led by the\u00a0Children&#8217;s Commissioner for England. It offers children and young people the chance to work with adults and get involved in decision making.<\/p>\n<p>The day provides an opportunity for children to experience the world of work. \u00a0The activities aim to promote self-esteem, confidence and help to break down the stereotypical barriers that exist between generations.<\/p>\n<p>Friday 21st November 2014 is the eighth in a series of annual\u00a0Takeover Days and the third year that Southwick Community Primary School has taken part.<\/p>\n<p>This year we have had some really exciting \u2018Takeovers\u2019:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gentoo<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1266 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.southwickprimary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/takeover-2.png\" alt=\"takeover-2\" width=\"243\" height=\"323\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 243px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 243\/323;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.southwickprimary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/takeover-2.png\" alt=\"takeover-2\" width=\"243\" height=\"323\" \/><\/noscript><\/li>\n<li>Sun F.M.<\/li>\n<li>Sainsbury&#8217;s<\/li>\n<li>Salvation Army<\/li>\n<li>Keepmoat Construction<\/li>\n<li>Southwick Neighbourhood Youth Project<\/li>\n<li>New Beginnings Nursery<\/li>\n<li>Centre Point<\/li>\n<li>Grace House<\/li>\n<li>Health Scented<\/li>\n<li>Sunderland Libraries<\/li>\n<li>Various roles in Southwick Community Primary School<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All organisations providing safe environments to allow our Year 6 children to experience work life.<\/p>\n<p>We have been lucky to have two children supporting the Deputy Mayor at an event at Roker and, for the second year, had the opportunity\u00a0to take two children to the Children&#8217;s Commissioners event in London<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maggie Atkinson is the Children&#8217;s Commissioner for England.<\/strong><\/figure>\n<p>Maggie was appointed Children&#8217;s Commissioner for England in 2010 and is the second person to hold this important post.<\/p>\n<p>Part of her role is to ensure that adults who make decisions listen to what children say about the things that affect them.<\/p>\n<p>Maggie will also bring matters that affect young people to the attention of local government and Parliament.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tTakeover Day is a national event led by the Children&#8217;s Commissioner for England. \t\t<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"cta\" href=\"https:\/\/www.southwickprimary.co.uk\/whats-the-buzz\/childrens-commissioners-takeover-day\/\">Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whats-the-buzz"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southwickprimary.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southwickprimary.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southwickprimary.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southwickprimary.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southwickprimary.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southwickprimary.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12535,"href":"https:\/\/www.southwickprimary.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions\/12535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southwickprimary.co.uk\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southwickprimary.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southwickprimary.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southwickprimary.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}