{"id":3612,"date":"2019-12-13T12:08:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T12:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moatecs.com\/?p=3612"},"modified":"2019-12-13T12:08:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T12:08:37","slug":"marie-keating-foundation-visits-senior-students-in-moate-cs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/marie-keating-foundation-visits-senior-students-in-moate-cs\/","title":{"rendered":"Marie Keating Foundation Visits Senior Students in Moate CS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>Marie Keating Foundation Visits Senior Students in Moate CS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over a period of 2 days a nurse representative from The Marie Keating Foundation Ms. Marie Dempsey visited a selection of Moate Community School\u2019s TY, 5<sup>th<\/sup> and 6<sup>th<\/sup> year pupils\u2019 to educate them on the area of Cancer Awareness.<\/p>\n<p>The one hour workshops consisted of educating the students in the areas of skin, lung, breast, cervical and testicular cancers. Nurse Dempsey brought a number of props including the infamous tar jar which mimics the level of tar that lodges in the lung as a result of smoking, as well as a sugar chart informing students of the high levels of sugar in popularly consumed foods leading to obesity. Ms. Dempsey showed the pupils a video warning of the dangers of sun exposure to the skin and students asked questions at the end of the workshop relating to signs, symptoms and treatment of cancer.<\/p>\n<p>MCS would like to sincerely thank Nurse Marie Dempsey and the Marie Keating Foundation for giving so freely of their time to inform our school body about such a crucial issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marie Keating Foundation Visits Senior Students in Moate CS \u00a0 Over a period of 2 days a nurse representative from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moatecs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}