The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
Spalding St Paul’s Primary School crowned their own queen to mark the jubilee, one who was 32 when The Queen was crowned.
That honour went to 102-year-old Bridget Bloomfield who was crowned by Year Four teacher Gary Ward, a former Staff Sargent in the Royal Corps of Signals in the British Army.
Each year group performed songs from a decade of Queen Elizabeth’s reign while a representative from Springfields was on hand to announce Year Two’s Leon Orpen as the winner of its Jubilee Flag competition.
His design will fly above the shopping centre while the centre gave the school a £500 voucher.
District councillor Glynis Scalese judged a ‘best dressed’ competition for pupils, finally awarding pupil Evie-Rae a chocolate hamper.
Assistant head and main organiser Katie James said: “The children have been so excited and enthusiastic on the run up to the celebrations.
“It is about Queen Elizabeth II of course, but it also fits in wonderfully with our teaching of British values because at Spalding St Paul’s we are all about community and celebrating things together.”
