Lincoln Minster teaches 600 children aged 11 through to 18, while St Mary’s teaches 247 primary school children.
St Mary’s will be known as St Mary’s Preparatory School, the Preparatory School of Lincoln Minster School under the United Church Schools Trust (UCST).
The merged prep school looks to offer a bigger curriculum, more extra-curricular activities and better facilities.
Following the merger announcement, originally decided on February 28, St Mary’s will also be looking for a new head teacher.
Lincoln Minster’s principal Clive Rickart said: “We share with each other a desire and determination to ensure that we continue to provide the very best standards for our pupils and to keep pace with the demands of the global environment.
“In combining the resources of our two schools, we will be equipped to build on and enhance the best of each of them.
“Our objective is to become a leading preparatory school with a national reputation while also keeping stable the cost of education for parents.
“We feel sure that parents will take an interest in the merger and will have detailed questions they want to ask.
“This is a very exciting development for the future of independent education in Lincoln and we look forward to sharing our plans with you over the coming weeks and months.”
The school will produce regular newsletters between now and September to keep parents up-to-date with the plans as they are taken forward.
For parents with children attending the schools wanting to discuss the merge with the principal, he will be taking appointments from March 1, no booking required.
*Hazel Belcher is the Chair of Governors at St Mary’s Preparatory School:
“Both preparatory schools have excellent reputations and track records, and by becoming one we will be able to build upon the best of both, offering a broad curriculum, more extra-curricular activities and better facilities.”
Charlotte Rendle Short, who is the Deputy Chief Executive of the United Church Schools Trust, has high hopes for the merger:
“In merging with each other, our objective is for the new St Mary’s to become a leading preparatory school with a national reputation while also keeping stable the cost of education for parents.”
Andrew Salmond Smith announced last term that he will be leaving Lincoln in September after five years as Headmaster of St Marys Preparatory School for the Headship of St George’s School, Windsor.
Lincoln Minster Preparatory School also lost its Head, Karen Maltby, tragically to an illness last term. The process for recruiting a new Head will begin immediately.
For more details on the merger, read the schools’ information booklet [PDF].
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A company making PPE across the country is set to create 50 new jobs in Lincolnshire after opening a new warehouse in the county.
Stock PPE is a family-run Lincolnshire-based company that supplies personal protective equipment to hospitals, health care facilities, schools and businesses all over the UK.
It has now invested £500,000 into a new warehouse in Caistor near the Lincolnshire Wolds, which could create 50 jobs in the area.
The demand for PPE products amid the coronavirus pandemic made the company’s existing premises in Hykeham too small to accommodate supply.
This led to the purchase of the Caistor warehouse which is large enough to continue the business’ expansion and growing number of customers.
Stock PPE Group chief executive Liam Chapman said: “We’ve been able to step up at a time when so many people need protective equipment to keep them safe and we are excited about the future.
“Our reputation, both nationally and internationally, is growing and we are confident that in the next three years we will need to find an additional 50 members of staff, with more than half of those needed within the next 12 months.
“We are also pleased to have been able to help in the fight against the spread of COVID-19 locally.
“We have donated more than £8,000 worth of much needed hand sanitiser and other protective equipment to charities and organisations helping the most vulnerable across the East Midlands.”
An ecstasy tablet with the motif “The Punisher” was found next to him at the home of Sam King in Fleet Street, Holbeach.
The family of Holbeach teenager Alex Buchan have described him as a “gentle, kind boy, who would help anyone.”
Alastair Turner, 19, who sold drugs at the party, and King, 21, who hosted the event, were told by Judge John Pini QC that although there was not evidence to bring criminal charges against them for the death of Alex, they were both morally responsible for what happened.
Turner was jailed for 45 months and King for three years after both admitted charges arising from the investigation into Alex’s death.
The court was told that the two men staged weekly drug parties at King’s home targeting the invitations at school age children.
Judge Pini, passing sentence, said: “This is an utterly tragic case. It involves the loss of a very young and much loved life.
“Neither defendant has been charged in relation to Alex’s death and the sentence the court imposes cannot reflect the death.
“However you will have the moral responsibility for Alex Buchan’s death on your conscience for the rest of your lives.
“You worked in concert so that the parties would be attended by people of school age.
“The targeting of young people of school age is a very seriously aggravating feature of this case.”
The judge said the case highlighted the “profound danger” of taking Class A drugs.
Andrew Peet, prosecuting, told the court: “Turner was a well-known and busy dealer of ecstasy.
“King very much acted in combination with Turner to ensure that weekly parties were held.
“King organised these to take place at his own home and they would be attended by school age customers.
“He was a willing and active participant in Turner’s drug dealing that took place at King’s house.
“They were connected at the hip, so to speak, as far as the parties were concerned. It is plain that King was a user himself.”
Mr Peet said that Turner was also supplying drugs on a regular basis outside of the weekend parties.
Alex Buchan, who was a pupil at University Holbeach Academy, attended one of the parties held at King’s house on the evening of April 5 2019.
“Whilst at the address he tragically died. His death was caused by a fatal level of MDMA [ecstasy] in his bloodstream,” Mr Peet said.
“He obtained an amount of ecstasy that night via Turner. Although Alex ingested some or all of the ecstasy, it is not the Crown’s case that it was the supply by Turner that led to Alex’s death.
“At 1.30am, the party having begun a few hours before on the previous day, paramedics, police and ambulance were called out to the address because Alex was not responsive.”
Mr Peet said that parents and adults called by the youngsters at the party arrived to try and resuscitate Alex.
Paramedics assisted on their arrival but Alex passed away at 2.30 am. An ecstasy tablet with the motif “The Punisher” was found next to him.
The prosecutor said that it appeared that the pill had been supplied to Alex by someone who had bought it from Turner.
“Alex had consumed far too much ecstasy far too quickly. He had consumed ecstasy before he arrived at the party.
“The investigation revealed that the party was not an isolated event but these had been occurring over many weeks.”
Evidence found on Turner’s mobile phone indicated he had been supplying drugs for the previous five months and had a list of regular customers.
“He told his customers he was able to deliver. Sometimes it was free but sometimes he would deliver with a £5 charge.”
Turner, 19, of Fleet Road, Fleet, admitted possession of ecstasy with intent to supply on April 5, 2019 and a further charge of supplying ecstasy between November 1 2018 and April 7 2019.
King, 21, of Fleet Street, Holbeach, admitted being concerned in the supply of ecstasy and two charges of permitting premises to be used for the supply of drugs.
Karen Walton, for Turner, said he secured an apprenticeship after leaving school but was unable to get a place at college.
“He started dealing drugs and realised he could make money.
“He is a young man of good character. He had shown no sign of any deviant behaviour until this period of his life.”
Neil Sands, for King, told the court: “He is deeply, deeply sorry for what took place. If there was anything within his power to turn the clock back he would so so without hesitation.”
There’s a new shortcut connecting the Brayford and High Street level crossings in Lincoln now that a new student block has been completed.
Caddick Construction finished the development on 179 High Street at the end of October, with the walkway now being opened to pedestrians.
It opend access from Brayford Wharf East to the High Street, making the city centre more accessible, and connects the two bridges.
The area opens up to Brayford Wharf East on one side, and the High Street on the other. | Photo: The Lincolnite
The development will see two eight-storey buildings provide 302 student apartments with shared facilities, while the ground floor will be used as a teaching space for the University of Lincoln.
A modern looking space and a practical shortcut. | Photo: The Lincolnite
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