{"id":563519,"date":"2026-05-03T05:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T05:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/563519\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T05:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T05:16:09","slug":"former-summerhill-pupil-through-to-britains-got-talent-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/563519\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Summerhill pupil through to Britain&#8217;s Got Talent semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Heather Froom, now 19, who left Summerhill School in 2022, has made it through to the next stage of the Britain\u2019s Got Talent competition as part of her dance group LMA.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Staff at Summerhill have praised her achievement, describing her as a \u201ctalented and dedicated student\u201d during her time at the school.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"Heather Froom is set to appear in the Britain's Got Talent semi-finals with dance group LMA\"\/>The dance group LMA are set to perform tonight (Image: Tim Harris)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Headteacher\u00a0Tim Harris\u00a0said: \u201cHeather was always an outstanding student with a real flair across all subjects, particularly in creative areas.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cShe was a pleasure to have as part of our school community.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cAll of the Summerhill family wish Heather and her team the very best for the semi-finals.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe are incredibly proud of what she has achieved and can\u2019t wait to see her perform in front of the judges, the audience and millions watching at home.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWhat an experience.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Britain\u2019s Got Talent live semi-finals is set to air at 7pm today (Saturday, May 2) on ITV1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heather Froom, now 19, who left Summerhill School in 2022, has made it through to the next stage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-563519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563519","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=563519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}