{"id":14487,"date":"2015-07-06T23:17:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T22:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=14487"},"modified":"2015-07-06T23:17:19","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T22:17:19","slug":"john-mason-school-alumni-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=14487","title":{"rendered":"John Mason School Alumni Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15070602.jpg\" alt=\"John Mason School Alumni Network\" \/><br \/>\nSince John Mason opened in 1961, many thousands of students have come and gone, and all of them have gained years of valuable life experience through a multitude of careers. The school is hoping that some of the ex-students might be willing to use their experience to help current students. This might be through online mentoring, visiting to speak to students, offering work experience placements, or many other possible contributions.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15070604.jpg\" alt=\"John Mason School Alumni Network\" \/><br \/>\nThey would love ex-students to sign up to their new John Mason School Alumni Network. It could to receive the occasional newsletter, or a reunion event. However, you can also say whether or not you\u2019d be willing to help further.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15070601.jpg\" alt=\"John Mason School Alumni Network\" \/><br \/>\nEx-students can sign up online via a website: <a href=\"http:\/\/formerstudents.johnmasonschool.org\/\">formerstudents.johnmasonschool.org<\/a> or by the \u201cSign up\u201d link on the new John Mason School Alumni Network Facebook page.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15070603.jpg\" alt=\"John Mason School Alumni Network\" \/><br \/>\nThis project is being carried out in collaboration with Future First, a charitable organisation which helps school set up alumni groups and engage former students. Their video shows how a similar project works at another school: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1vWhzT4T9ys\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/1vWhzT4T9ys<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to Friends Reunited for the pictures of ex-students of John Mason School.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since John Mason opened in 1961, many thousands of students have come and gone, and all of them have gained years of valuable life experience through a multitude of careers. The school is hoping that some of the ex-students might be willing to use their experience to help current students. This might be through online [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}