{"id":7894,"date":"2014-08-27T16:41:15","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T20:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=7894"},"modified":"2014-09-10T14:32:23","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T18:32:23","slug":"jennifer-coulthard-finishes-at-top-of-her-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/jennifer-coulthard-finishes-at-top-of-her-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Coulthard finishes at top of her class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Angela Gismondi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Coulthard has graduated with one of the highest marks at Aurora\u2019s Dr. G.W. Williams Secondary School. <\/p>\n<p>The York Region District School Board (YRDSB) recently released the top marks for students across the Region. Coulthard finished her high school career with a 95.5 average, sharing the top honour with fellow classmate Stephanie Louie who graduated with the same mark.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew I was up there but I didn\u2019t know I was at the top, so it was a surprise,\u201d said Coulthard, who has maintained a high average throughout her high school career. \u201cI\u2019m proud of my achievement. It\u2019s a great school. The teachers are great and I had a good time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although she has a natural affinity for learning, Coulthard said she had to work hard to achieve the high grades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really had to put the time in,\u201d she stated, adding math and history were among her favourite subjects. \u201cI pick up things really fast so school is not that hard for me.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Coulthard, a second-degree black belt, was able to maintain her stellar grades while working at a karate studio five nights a week.<\/p>\n<p>Coulthard is now looking forward to the next step in her academic journey \u2013 post secondary school. This fall, Coulthard will be heading to the University of Western Ontario, majoring in film studies and creative writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Angela Gismondi Jennifer Coulthard has graduated with one of the highest marks at Aurora\u2019s Dr. G.W. Williams Secondary School. The York Region District School Board (YRDSB) recently released the top marks for students across the Region. Coulthard finished her high school career with a 95.5 average, sharing the top honour with fellow classmate Stephanie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-28-10.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}