Education

Deepings Swimming Club can boast a vintage crop of speed merchants, including Bourne Grammar School pair Alex Wray (17) and Isabel Spinley (15).

Children who were born between September 1, 2011 and August 31, 2012 are due to start Reception in September 2016.

Plans for a permanent building to house a new sixth form in Oakham have been given the go-ahead.

In theory, Donington youngster Matilda Craven (9) is too young to watch The Hunger Games trilogy created by American author Suzanne Collins.

Pupils Brooke Hill Academy in Oakham were extremely proud to have been awarded the prestigious Sainsbury’s School Games Gold Award.

Talented dancers used their moves to win a trip to watch a top ballet show in London.

A new outdoor learning area has been opened at Linchfield Primary School in Deeping St James.

School pupils have once again battled to create the best Christmas hampers with the results going to the Butterfield Centre in Bourne.

On Tuesday, December 8, Bourne Westfield Year 5/6 football teams went to Spalding Gleed School to compete in the South East Lincs Primary Schools Football Tournament.

More than 300 children in schools across Melton and Leicestershire learnt about food and nutrition this month as part of a fun-filled campaign launched by Mars Food UK.

Continuing the school’s amazing tradition of being able to offer significant characters from the past for our children to interview, Year 6 children visited Burghley House to meet none other than Sir William Cecil, Lord Burghley!

Year 2 thoroughly enjoyed an exciting visit from ‘History off the Page’ on Monday, December 7.

Bourne Grammar School hosted a presentation by Professor Iain Stewart, Director of the Sustainable Earth Institute at the University of Plymouth.

Oakham mayor Alf Dewis hands over £100 book token to Brooke Hill Academy.

From the annual Christmas Fair to Christmas church services to parents joining their children to make decorations, the festivities got into full swing at Bourne Westfield.

Every classroom and corridor throughout Bourne Abbey CE Primary Academy has been full of the spirit of Christmas since the start of Advent.

Six schools have taken part in a Lego tournament held at Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems in Market Deeping.

Hard work is paying off at Linchfield Community Primary School where children and staff have received an early Christmas present.

On Thursday, November 26, Westfield hosted the Bourne Primary Schools Football Tournament.

Lincolnshire as a Local Education Authority (LTA) did not fare too well in new primary school attainment league tables released today...but how did individual city school’s get on?