Schools

A Spalding youngster has been chosen as a runner-up in a national competition. Children from Years 3, 4 and 5 at Spalding Parish Church of England Day School took part in the ALCS 2015 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Shadowing Competition which asked budding young journalists to tell them: “What reading means to you!” They were looking for personal accounts ...

Children at Spalding’s Ayscoughfee Hall School learned about life in medieval England to celebrate 800 years of Magna Carta. Dressed as 13th century peasants, the children started the day with an assembly learning about Magna Carta, the changes it brought and the relevance of it today, before enjoying archery sessions, quill pen writing, medieval dance and basic Latin. Children also ...

Thirty young chess masters battled it out at a primary school’s third annual tournament. Boys and girls aged from eight to 11 at Spalding’s St John the Baptist Primary School competed over three days to win the coveted champion’s trophy. Two players finished with a maximum score, so a rapid-play decider was held and won by young player Nitesh Anbazhagen ...

Youngsters at Holbeach Primary Academy have been busy this term – learning about teeth and daffodils! Pupils at the Boston Road school have learnt all about how to keep their smile. The school welcomed Gina Hargrave from Lincolnshire Community Health Service to talk to the pupils about their dental health. They learnt some interesting facts about caring for their teeth ...

Pupils at the William Stukeley Primary School have been learning all about the bright lights of the entertainment industry. One afternoon a week the school becomes the Stukeley University and the children take part in seminars to help them decide on a career path once they leave education. To help them understand the highs and lows of the entertainment world, ...

St Norbert’s Primary School in Spalding held an Eco Fashion Show as part of World Environment Day. A spokesman said: “The children modelled their outfits on the catwalk and some of the walks were very amusing due to the children really getting into the spirit of modelling. “The afternoon was an amazing experience and the whole school shared their enjoyment ...

Children in years five and six at Spalding’s Ayscoughfee Hall School were treated to a day at Willoughby Farm, spending time with the butchers and in the kitchens to see how the food we eat gets to our plates. It was a very informative and enjoyable day led by Stuart and Alison Ashton and the other staff. A school spokesman ...

Penpals who have been sending letters across the Atlantic for more than 60 years have finally met. Barbara Kent Cole, of Holbeach, first wrote to Madonna Anton, of Michigan, USA, in May 1947, when she was 12. It was the first of many letters exchanged between the two girls and also led to a ten-year penpal relationship developing between Mrs ...

The finals of the Spalding Primary Schools Hockey Tournaments were held at Glen Park, Surfleet on Friday (May 15). Around 160 schoolchildren played in a great spirit throughout, with plenty of skill, action and keenly-contested hockey on show. Twenty teams from 12 local primary schools were divided into four graded leagues of five teams from beginner to experienced levels. Division ...

More than 60 children were each presented with a Bible at a village primary school. The Rev David Sweeting gave out the gifts from St Mary’s Church to children at Pinchbeck East Primary School. The Bibles are given to each year’s intake of reception children, as well as those who join the school in different age groups. Head of school ...

Two students from University Academy Holbeach – Charlotte Bycroft (Year 13) and Eleanor Palmer (Year 11) – were part of a tour of World War One battlefields. As part of their follow-up work, they have taken part in Legacy 110 – an initiative which encourages students from the tour to deliver a community-based First World War project to spread the ...

Young volleyball players from a village primary school finished third place in a county competition. The B team from Pinchbeck East Primary School took part in the county volleyball finals after winning a Spalding final in which they played against the school’s A team. School PE teacher Sally Robinson said: “We played seven games and just lost out in our ...

The public is being invited to join in at a swishing event at Spalding’s Monkshouse Primary School on Thursday (April 30). Swishing is a low-cost way of recycling clothes. Good quality, clean adult and children’s items such as tops, dresses, trousers, coats, shoes, handbags and school uniform will be exchanged for tokens which enable people to buy other items for ...

Visitors to Spalding’s St Paul’s Primary School stepped back in time over the weekend. The school hosted a medieval festival, organised by James Farrar, who has three children there. This is the second time James has put on the event and although numbers were up on last year, he was still a little disappointed with the turnout. He said: “We ...

A headteacher has marked his retirement from a Spalding secondary school with a farewell “selfie”. Nigel Ryan, who will leave Spalding Grammar School at the end of the academic year, took the picture of himself with all of the school’s pupils lined up in the background. Mr Ryan announced he was to leave the school last September to spend more ...

The final two days of term at Spalding Monkshouse Primary School saw pupils from reception through to year five put on an Easter tea performance. Residents from sheltered accommodation at Sezanne Walk were first to see the show, which included an Easter hat parade and musical renditions, accompanied by tea and cake. And on Friday it was the turn of ...

A team from University Academy Holbeach proved victorious in Boston College’s The Games. The Games is an inter-school competition involving secondary schools from around the county competing against each other in a variety of practical sporting activities. The top two boys and two girls from each school were determined at heats and these finalists then competed for individual titles as ...

Two Crowland pupils are celebrating after winning a competition to name a new housing estate in the town. Lily Cross and Troy Harrison were chosen by Ashwood Homes sales manager Nathan Marshall as winners after pupils at Southview Primary School were asked to come up with a name for the new estate which will be built on land off Peterborough ...

Staff at Thomas Cowley High School in Donington have been reminding students what the UK has gained from its rich multicultural past and present through a whole school celebration of cultural diversity. At the centre of the celebration was a film which features both students and teachers proudly proclaiming their cultural heritage.

St John The Baptist Primary School in Spalding is hosting a fundraising quiz night on Friday, February 27 (7.30pm). The event is being organised by the Friends of the School, which works hard all year round to raise funds for the Hawthorn Bank school and to create a happier environment for the children. Tickets are £2 per person and teams ...