{"id":7173,"date":"2023-08-14T07:22:30","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T19:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7173"},"modified":"2023-08-14T07:22:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T19:22:30","slug":"17-sets-of-twins-to-start-primary-school-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7173","title":{"rendered":"17 Sets Of Twins To Start Primary School In Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"><strong>An incredible 17 sets of twins are set to start primary\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/school\/?ico=auto_link_news_P1_LNK1\">school<\/a>\u00a0in Inverclyde in Scotland in the new term.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The area is already known as \u2018Twinverclyde\u2019 for its high rate of twins, with a record-breaking 19 sets starting school in 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This year marks the second highest rate ever recorded in the district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Most of the class of this year\u2019s twin intake \u2013 15 out of the 17 sets \u2013 gathered at St Patrick\u2019s Primary in Greenock for a dress rehearsal ahead of the big day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">St Patrick\u2019s along with Ardgowan Primary will welcome the most pairs, with three sets each joining their respective P1 classes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Depute provost Graeme Brooks said it had become an annual tradition in Inverclyde to welcome twins into primary school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He added: \u2018Excitement is definitely building for the start of the new term next week and what better way to look forward to that than seeing the pupils here looking resplendent in their uniforms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u2018It\u2019s also a good bit of fun for parents too \u2013 and a handy dress rehearsal ahead of the real thing next Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We\u2019re lucky to have so many incredible schools here in Inverclyde with every one renewed or extensively refurbished, including St Patrick\u2019s which was rebuilt and opened in 2016, thanks to the council\u2019s unprecedented quarter billion (\u00a3250,000,000) investment in our schools estate.<\/p>\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">NDTV<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An incredible 17 sets of twins are set to start primary\u00a0school\u00a0in Inverclyde in Scotland in the new term. The area is already known as \u2018Twinverclyde\u2019 for its high rate of twins, with a record-breaking 19 sets starting school in 2015. This year marks the second highest rate ever recorded in the district. Most of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7175,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7173\/revisions\/7175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}