{"id":7345,"date":"2017-12-06T10:56:12","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T10:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/?p=7345"},"modified":"2017-12-06T10:56:12","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T10:56:12","slug":"tales-from-an-ex-pupil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/?p=7345","title":{"rendered":"Tales from an Ex-Pupil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday 5th December Mr Etherton an ex Mayfield pupil* visited our school.\u00a0 In assembly he shared some of his memories of Mayfield, some of the work he had done when he was at school and told us about how he became a Head Teacher.\u00a0 Shaimaa, Kenny, Henry and Nafeesah from year five asked Mr Etherton some questions after the assembly:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mr-Etherton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7346\" src=\"http:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mr-Etherton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mr-Etherton.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mr-Etherton-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mr-Etherton-73x55.jpg 73w, https:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mr-Etherton-470x353.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you feel leaving Mayfield?<\/strong><br \/>\nMr Etherton said that he was very sad when he had to leave Mayfield, but that he has a dictionary that was given to him which he keeps on his bookshelf to remind him of the school.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One of the pictures you showed us that you had drawn at school was of a big smiley face that was done in National Smile Week. Why did you draw it?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe picture was drawn during national smile week which encourages people to clean their teeth to keep them healthy and give them a nice smile.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you like being a Head Teacher?<\/strong><br \/>\nMr Etherton said that he loves being a head teacher. He particularly likes seeing all the progress children make from when they start in reception to when they leave in year six. He likes seeing how their work gets better and better and also how children get more confident when they do performances<\/p>\n<p><strong>What jobs do you have as Head Teacher?<\/strong><br \/>\nMr Etherton said that he had to worry about the safety of the children. He also has to deal with money because the teachers need paying for teaching, and there are also electricity bills.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mr-Etherton-Mayfield.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7347\" src=\"http:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mr-Etherton-Mayfield.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mr-Etherton-Mayfield.jpg 480w, https:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mr-Etherton-Mayfield-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mr-Etherton-Mayfield-53x55.jpg 53w, https:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mr-Etherton-Mayfield-470x486.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for taking the time to visit us \u2013 we really enjoyed the assembly.<\/p>\n<p>*Mr Etherton is now Head Teacher of\u00a0St Nicolas and St Mary CE Primary School in Shoreham, West Sussex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday 5th December Mr Etherton an ex Mayfield pupil* visited our school.\u00a0 In assembly he shared some of his memories of Mayfield, some of the work he had done [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mr-Etherton-Cropped-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7345"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7350,"href":"https:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7345\/revisions\/7350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayfieldcambridge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}