{"id":1081,"date":"2019-11-21T16:10:04","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T16:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southyorkshirefutures.co.uk\/syf\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2020-01-10T11:14:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T11:14:56","slug":"childrens-university-in-south-yorkshire-continues-to-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southyorkshirefutures.co.uk\/syf\/2019\/11\/21\/childrens-university-in-south-yorkshire-continues-to-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Children&#8217;s University in South Yorkshire continues to grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 45,000 children and young people from schools across Sheffield have participated in the Children&#8217;s University, a charity that works with schools to encourage participation in extra curricular activities and is supported by South Yorkshire Futures.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re delighted to see that, partly due to the success of the programme in Sheffield, schools across Rotherham have now signed up to participate. The children&#8217;s University annual report for 2018\/19 demonstrates a link between participation in the programme and improved numeracy and literacy success rates, the full report can be read here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/southyorkshirefutures.co.uk\/syf\/files\/2019\/11\/Sheffield-CU-How-does-it-make-a-difference-2018.pdf\">Sheffield CU &#8211; How does it make a difference 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This month young people from across the city who take part in Sheffield Children&#8217;s University (CU) attended a special graduation event at Sheffield City Hall to celebrate completing 1,000 hours of extra-curricular learning activities.<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen Sheffield CU pupils, who have all received the Gold Fellowship for 1000 hours of participation, were presented with a special certificate in front of family and friends in a university-style graduation ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Following the awards ceremony, pupils went backstage for a tour of the gowning and photography area, led by Ede &amp; Ravenscroft &#8211; one of the oldest tailoring firms in the world. They then had some official photographs taken, wearing graduation caps and gowns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 45,000 children and young people from schools across Sheffield have participated in the Children&#8217;s University, a charity that works with schools to encourage participation in extra curricular activities and is supported by South Yorkshire Futures. We&#8217;re delighted to see that, partly due to the success of the programme in Sheffield, schools across Rotherham [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9985,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa1VkZ-hr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southyorkshirefutures.co.uk\/syf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southyorkshirefutures.co.uk\/syf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southyorkshirefutures.co.uk\/syf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southyorkshirefutures.co.uk\/syf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/southyorkshirefutures.co.uk\/syf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1113,"href":"https:\/\/southyorkshirefutures.co.uk\/syf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions\/1113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southyorkshirefutures.co.uk\/syf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southyorkshirefutures.co.uk\/syf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southyorkshirefutures.co.uk\/syf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}