{"id":1437,"date":"2016-11-22T09:49:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T09:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2016-11-23T10:03:52","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T10:03:52","slug":"school-bridge-players-visit-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1437","title":{"rendered":"School Bridge Players Visit Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?attachment_id=1439\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1439\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1439 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_4423.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4423\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_4423.jpg 3264w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_4423-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_4423-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_4423-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_4423-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a>Michael today welcomed members of the Weald CP School Bridge Club to the Houses of Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Local volunteers have been promoting Bridge to pupils at the school for over a year.\u00a0 The visit to Parliament celebrates the Bridge Club\u2019s achievement of becoming the most successful school bridge initiative in Kent.\u00a0 16 pupils in Years 4, 5 and 6 have already gained English Bridge Union (EBU) proficiency certificates and there are now plans to extend the programme into other schools.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?attachment_id=1438\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1438\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1438  alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_4412-e1479894936499.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4412\" width=\"311\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_4412-e1479894936499.jpg 2448w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_4412-e1479894936499-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_4412-e1479894936499-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_4412-e1479894936499-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 311px) 85vw, 311px\" \/><\/a>Hosted by Baroness Henig, captain of the House of Lords Bridge team, pupils were given a tour of Parliament and had the opportunity to play Bridge with several members of the Lords before meeting Michael.<\/p>\n<p>Michael said: &#8220;I was delighted to welcome the pupils to Parliament today.\u00a0 They should be very proud of their achievement.\u00a0 It is good to see that initiatives like this one are proving to be so successful in our local schools.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael today welcomed members of the Weald CP School Bridge Club to the Houses of Parliament. Local volunteers have been promoting Bridge to pupils at the school for over a year.\u00a0 The visit to Parliament celebrates the Bridge Club\u2019s achievement of becoming the most successful school bridge initiative in Kent.\u00a0 16 pupils in Years 4, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1437\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;School Bridge Players Visit Parliament&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[442,435,491],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions\/1441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}