{"id":316847,"date":"2025-12-15T07:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T07:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/316847\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T07:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T07:52:07","slug":"elves-antics-thrill-amble-primary-school-pupils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/316847\/","title":{"rendered":"Elves&#8217; antics thrill Amble Primary School pupils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bricking up the school entrance, filling the headteacher&#8217;s office with balls and pinching a lifeboat are just some of the cheeky antics of a school&#8217;s naughty elves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since 2019, elf toys have been &#8220;making mischief&#8221; at Amble Links Primary School in Northumberland, with the help of the local community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Head Paul Heeley said the school had &#8220;quite a following now&#8221; on social media, adding: &#8220;When the school&#8217;s mentioned, people say, &#8216;oh, is that the school with the elves?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said you could hear the anticipation from students as they came up the hill in the morning, asking: &#8220;Where the elves? What the elves doing? What have they done?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bricking up the school entrance, filling the headteacher&#8217;s office with balls and pinching a lifeboat are just some&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-316847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}