Education

The Pupil School Council at Spalding’s Ayscoughfee Hall School recently raised £150 for charity. Headteacher Clare Odgen said: “With their usual care and compassion, the children have overwhelmingly chosen to support the RSPCA on this occasion, as they feel more animals than usual have been neglected due to the COVID situation and the RSPCA will have been unable to fundraise ...

Pupils at Gosberton Academy went more than the extra mile to raise money for the school. All the children walked more than 5km on a route around the village to add up to 800km. They teamed-up with Gosberton House Care Home and during their lap of the village, children delivered flowers, letters and poems to residents. “It’s been a tough ...

Pupils at The Priory School have been learning about chickens. They enjoyed a jam-packed day recently learning about the science of eggs, farming poultry and birds within the countryside with Kids Country’s ‘Happy Chicks Day’ event. It’s delivered into schools, in partnership with sponsors Central England Co-operative and the Happy Chicks Company. Lesley Perry, teacher at The Priory School, Spalding, ...

Spalding Academy is set to expand by up to another 150 students as the town continues to grow. Plans have been submitted for a new eight-classroom teaching block at the site and will allow growth of 30 pupils a year over the next five years or so. The academy has been identified for additional places to meet the county council’s ...

A Spalding school’s outdoor area has been given a spruce up which will allow even more of its pupils to access it. The Priory School has received a £4,000 donation from the The Nineveh Charitable Trust, part of which will help make its Forest School accessible to wheelchairs. The Spalding Special Schools Federation, which includes The Priory and The Garth ...

A group of South Holland pupils put the world on their shoulders to celebrate Earth Day last week. A range of activities were carried out at Wygate Park Academy to mark the day which emphasised the importance of our planet and the fact it needs looking after. Children were allowed to wear blue and green clothes and some of them ...

A South Holland primary school is awash with yellow after staff, pupils and families adorned the fence with ribbons as part of the National Day of Reflection. Whaplode Church of England Primary held a minute’s silence last Tuesday when the nation looked back at a year since the outbreak of a pandemic. All the children currently in school and members ...

Pupils at a Spalding primary school have raised more than £2,000 for charity through their tuck shops. Children at St John the Baptist Primary School have chosen to support four charities that are special to them and cheques have been given to The Lily Foundation (£500), The British Heart Foundation (£300), Macmillan Cancer Support (£500) and Spalding Rotary Club (£200). ...

Local businesses Ark ICT and Simply Magazines have teamed up to help families source equipment required to aid home learning. It’s estimated around nine per cent of children in the UK do not have access to a laptop, desktop or tablet at home and with many children expected to learn from home during the current lockdown it’s vital they have ...

Millions of pounds of extra funding has been sourced to help fund new facilities at specialist schools in Lincolnshire, including at The Garth and Priory schools, as well as Gosberton Academy. A further £30m has been sourced for the five-year projet to improve 13 schools taking the total to £86m. The newly pledged £30m includes half new funding from Lincolnshire ...

Staff and students at a Spalding special school have celebrated the official opening of a new facilities block. The Garth School, which caters for pupils with complex and profound learning difficulties, has been remodelled to create five new classrooms with external play space. Headteacher Claire Moore said the new extension will ‘transform’ the learning environment at the school. An appeal ...

The children at a Spalding special school will be able to move into their new classrooms after a public appeal for help. The head teacher at the Garth School asked for help after the price of new blinds was cut from the budget of a new extension project. The Spalding Voice carried the appeal just before half term and South ...

It was a super end to the half term for Year One pupils at Spalding’s Monkshouse Primary School. Superheroes have been the topic for the children since they returned to school in September. And to mark the end of the first part of the school year back in class, they all dressed as their favourite superhero. A spokesman for the ...

Spalding High School pupils said #HelloYellow and raised hundreds of pounds for World Mental Health Day. Pupils at the school were invited to wear something yellow or bring a yellow item in while donating 50p on October 10 raising £406 for the Young Minds charity. A spokesman for the school, said: “We were wearing yellow to show young people they ...

Children at a special school in Spalding won’t be able to move into their brand new classrooms until money is found for new blinds. A major building project at The Garth School has seen the addition of five new classrooms which are all but ready to welcome pupils. But the cost of new blinds has not been covered by the ...

A school has used its annual harvest festival to aid a Spalding lady helping families in Uganda and providing goods for local food banks. Bicker Preparatory School and Early Years weren’t able to attend church like they normally do every autumn. Emily Braybrook in Uganda Instead for their Harvest Festival they were encouraged to bring in food to donate to ...

A retired teacher who has spent more than 40 years championing education for children with autism is to receive the MBE. The delayed Queen’s Birthday Honours list was revealed on Friday night and Janet Corcoran had been keeping her secret since June. A family reunion over Skype was arranged for Friday evening as Mrs Corcoran (pictured) could not tell anybody ...

University Academy, Holbeach and Thomas Cowley High School in Donington have become the first schools in the region to sign up to an exciting new initiative aimed at inspiring and helping local pupils to succeed. South Holland District Council has teamed up with national education charity Future First to launch a crowdfunding campaign aimed at raising funds for alumni networks ...

Children at a Gosberton School have been able to socially distance more outside thanks to the creation of a new outdoor area. Gosberton Academy’s outdoor area was constructed over the summer by Lincolnshire-based company Newby Leisure. It includes a mud kitchen, a water feature, planting and growing areas as well as a clamber tree. And among the first to use ...

A number of children are being taught at home after a confirmed case of COVID-19 was identified at a Spalding primary school. St John the Baptist School in Hawthorn Bank say a ‘member of the school community’ tested positive for the virus. It’s now said how many children are working from home this week following Friday’s positive test. Headteacher Paul ...