{"id":87199,"date":"2026-04-01T13:01:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87199"},"modified":"2026-04-01T13:01:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:01:06","slug":"inside-the-east-london-state-school-sending-62-kids-to-oxbridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/01\/inside-the-east-london-state-school-sending-62-kids-to-oxbridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the east London state school sending 62 kids to Oxbridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1ZSmMs.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6&amp;x=346&amp;y=77&amp;s=128&amp;d=128\" alt=\"Headteacher Alex Crossman has been at LAE for five years (Photo: Teri Pengilley)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m eavesdropping on three teenagers engaging in a light-hearted history debate. \u201cHenry VIII didn\u2019t go mad,\u201d one student says matter-of-factly. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/lifestyle\/lifestylegeneral\/inside-the-east-london-state-school-sending-62-kids-to-oxbridge\/ar-AA1ZSu2U?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69ccd61f06f948b3931b1fd5587d70cd&amp;ei=40\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>I\u2019m eavesdropping on three teenagers engaging in a light-hearted history debate. \u201cHenry VIII didn\u2019t go mad,\u201d one student says matter-of-factly. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-competition"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/oxford-city.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87233,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87199\/revisions\/87233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}