{"id":5671,"date":"2026-02-05T11:53:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T11:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deanfieldschool.co.uk\/site\/?page_id=5671"},"modified":"2026-02-05T11:53:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T11:53:46","slug":"what-our-former-pupils-say","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/deanfieldschool.co.uk\/site\/what-our-former-pupils-say\/","title":{"rendered":"What our former pupils say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi my name is Brodie; I was previously a student at Dean Field Primary School from 2012-2020 and here are some things I think personally helped me transition from primary school to secondary school.<br \/>\nFirstly, through having multiple SPAG lessons I noticed how my writing skills\/grammar\/punctuation in Year 7 was much more developed than others in my class. Also, by reading every morning in school and at home, my reading was more advanced than other children within my class.<\/p>\n<p>My experience at Robin Wood helped me gain a lot more independence and allowed me to try new things I had never experienced before. We also went to London, this helped me with communication which is a big aspect in high school. We also had a Trinity student visit and explain what we would expect moving into high school; this helped me understand the expectations they would have of me.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, doing weekly homework got me into a strict routine which gave me an upper hand at high school because it meant I already knew what to expect when coming to homework.<\/p>\n<p>Now I am 17 years old; I left high school last year passing every GCSE and I am now currently studying level 3 law criminology and psychology at college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi my name is Brodie; I was previously a student at Dean Field Primary School from 2012-2020 and here are some things I think personally helped me transition from primary school to secondary school. Firstly, through having multiple SPAG lessons I noticed how my writing skills\/grammar\/punctuation in Year 7 was much more developed than others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5671","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deanfieldschool.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deanfieldschool.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deanfieldschool.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deanfieldschool.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deanfieldschool.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deanfieldschool.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5673,"href":"https:\/\/deanfieldschool.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5671\/revisions\/5673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deanfieldschool.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}