{"id":905,"date":"2016-02-13T10:53:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T10:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlawacademy.aberdeen.sch.uk\/?p=905"},"modified":"2016-02-13T10:53:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T10:53:40","slug":"25th-29th-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/option1\/2016\/02\/13\/25th-29th-january\/","title":{"rendered":"25th-29th January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we had the S2 course choice event.\u00a0 Leading into this event we had seen a lot of media coverage about job losses in the energy sector.\u00a0 It would have been easy to be pessimistic about future prospects for youngsters.\u00a0 However a\u00a0phrase was in the back of my mind as I prepared for meeting the S2 parents &#8211; &#8220;necessity is the mother of invention&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In essence I am taking this to mean that\u00a0we will all be inventive when we\u00a0have to.\u00a0 Over the last 30 or so years jobs have been plentiful so we have not\u00a0been forced to look beyond the energy sector for most of our opportunities.\u00a0 In the next\u00a030 years we will have to look beyond that sector and I have confidence\u00a0that people in NE Scotland will rise to that challenge.\u00a0 The skills and talents that\u00a0we\u00a0took\u00a0from traditional industries such as fishing, farming,\u00a0granite etc and adapted to the hostile environment of sub sea engineering can be adapted again into serving the needs of future generations.<\/p>\n<p>That was the underlying message to S2 parents and needs to be the message we give to the young people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we had the S2 course choice event.\u00a0 Leading into this event we had seen a lot of media coverage about job losses in the energy sector.\u00a0 It would have been easy to be pessimistic about future prospects for youngsters.\u00a0 However a\u00a0phrase was in the back of my mind as I prepared for meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parents","category-weekly-blog","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/option1\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}