Education

Holbeach family firm Taylors Bulbs is celebrating its centenary by launching a nationwide competition to get more children planting bulbs. In October over 150 garden centres and schools will be taking part in Little Daffodils and encouraging kids to plant bulbs in their own pots and watch them flower the next spring. Taylors Bulbs are the UK’s leading supplier of ...

A Spalding 19-year-old has served up two awards after excelling at Peterborough College. Tom Hannam won the Excellence in Skills Award and was a finalist in the outstanding contribution to England and Maths award at the recent ceremony at Peterborough Cathedral. And it topped a busy night for the Catering and Hospitality student who was the chef serving up a ...

Representatives from The Rotary Club of South Holland visited The Priory School in Spalding to hand over a brand new defibrillator. The Priory School supports pupils aged 11 to 16, who have a range of needs including moderate learning difficulties, autism, SEMH and communication issues. The school has always had use of a defibrillator stationed next door to them at ...

Spalding Academy is celebrating after being rated ‘good’ in its latest ‘Ofsted’. The school had been rated ‘inadequate’ for a third time in three years at its last inspection in 2016. The most recent inspection carried out on June 4 and 5 ranked the school ‘good’ in all categories and is the first since the former Sir John Gleed School was ...

Spalding Academy Year 11s ended their GCSE year in style last week at a glitzy prom at Springfields. Last Thursday’s event saw crowds gather around the Marquee Suite for the annual tradition. And the students didn’t disappoint with their grand entrances and fantastic attire for the end of the school year celebration. A spokesman for Spalding Academy, said: “Spalding Academy ...

An information evening on a new school for children deemed challenging or who have been excluded is being held this month. Springwell Alternative Academy Spalding was due to open at the former Post 16 Centre in Matmore Gate in September 2018. After delays it’s now open, but the current hope is for it to finally move in to Spalding from ...

Three teenagers from Long Sutton raced to help a man who had collapsed on the pavement and been found semi-conscious. Rachel Stevens, 15, Michael Ireland, 16, and Samuel Collett, 16, were walking home from training night at Long Sutton Army Cadet Force Detachment on Thursday June 12 when the drama unfolded on Bull Lane. Using the first aid skills they ...

A spokesman from the trust that runs University Academy Holbeach said it would like to reassure parents, pupils and carers that it is working with police on the yesterday’s knife arrest. On Tuesday, June 4, a 13-year-old boy was arrested at the school under suspicion of possession of a bladed article. The trust spokesman said: “University Academy Holbeach is part ...

The Peele Community College secondary school in Long Sutton is planning to start the new school year with a new name. At a meeting for parents on May 20, the school welcomed anyone with questions about the renaming, with University Academy Long Sutton set as the proposed new title for the school. In her school blog, headteacher Jane Moody said: ...

A new school for pupils who have may have been excluded or deemed challenging is finally up and running, but its wait to move into its Spalding premises goes on. Springwell Alternative Academy Spalding was due to open at the former Post 16 Centre on Matmore Gate in September 2018. The school officially became up and running on April 1 ...

A Crowland student has won a prestigious music award after music industry bigwigs unanimously chose his song. Peterborough Regional College student William Barkhouse, who is currently studying the BTEC Level 3 90-Credit Diploma in Music, recently took part in a music competition run by Rethinkyourmind, which is a mental wellbeing charity, at Leicester College ‘s Sue Townsend Theatre. A poem ...

A Holbeach secondary school has been rated ‘good’ in its latest Ofsted report. University Academy Holbeach has been rated good in six of six areas in the latest Ofsted report, published on April 4. The school’s principal, Steve Baragwanath has been praised, along with his support team, for setting high expectations for pupils. The report said: “Leaders are capable and ...

A £500,000 funding boost for the arts in South Holland and Boston has been announced. The long-running Transported programme will continue with funding from Arts Council England, which has announced the extension of six Creative People and Places schemes. Now in its seventh year, the Transported programme is a community-focused project creating more opportunities for people in the Lincolnshire area ...

Harriet Ingamells was named Boston College’s Outstanding Apprentice of the Year in a recent ceremony to honour its apprentices. Harriet is an apprentice in ‘Supporting Teaching and Learning in Schools’ with Gosberton Academy. She said: “I was very surprised to have received the ‘Outstanding Apprentice of the Year’ award. “It has helped me feel valued within my role and boosted ...

Book characters came to life across South Holland on Thursday March 7 as young people across the region celebrated World Book Day. Young (and some older) across the district dressed in a theme to show their appreciation of books. Many were inspired by their favourite books including Mia Holmes dressing up as Little Miss Fox and Pete Bailey monkeying around ...

Spalding Grammar School continues to be ‘good’ says its latest Ofsted report. The short inspection at the school was carried out on February 5 and the report published this week. “The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last inspection,” says the report. “The progress made by pupils was exceptionally strong in mathematics, ...

A South Holland Primary School requires improvement, according to its latest Ofsted report. Pupils at St Mary’s Church of England Primary School do not make good enough progress, the inspection body say. The report, published this week, says the school requires improvements in three out of five key areas. But pupils get off to a good start in the early ...

Film and TV star Warwick Davis has officially unveiled an education charity’s new Spalding offices. Nacro has been giving young people an alternative route for further education for the last decade. And the operation which currently has 40 students has expanded its premises at its Westlode Street premises and is now at the front of Broadgate House. Star Wars, Harry ...

The Spalding campus of Boston College is celebrating the milestone of its 10,000th learner. Chelsea Leggatt, who is studying Access to Policing and Criminal Justice Studies, received a voucher and certificate to mark the achievement. The Spalding campus has had eight years of providing education in the town and the number of learners has risen each year. Chelsea enrolled in ...

A fund set up to offer financial support to students from Holbeach and the surrounding area has allocated a large sum of money so far this year – but more is still available. The George Farmer Educational Foundation committee met this week to agree on the grants for the year and allocated a total of £17,500. Committee member Isobel Hutchinson ...