Linchfield School News

Linchfield Community Primary School joins CIT (Community Inclusive Trust)

Linchfield Community Primary School in Deeping St James is now part of the CIT, bringing to fifteen the number of schools within the Trust across the East Midlands.

Peter Bell, CIT Chief Executive, explained, “The Trust have been supporting Linchfield since May 2019 following their Ofsted inspection. The school has made significant progress since and we are delighted that they are now formally part of the CIT family. We will continue to work with the Linchfield team to ensure further positive development of the school and their drive to provide an outstanding education for their pupils.”

Selina Ratchford, Interim Headteacher, added, “This is a very exciting time for Linchfield Primary and our whole school community. We are looking forward to a bright future as the school goes from strength to strength to provide the very best education for Linchfield pupils.”

In other Linchfield news…

teaching agency, have been providing teaching and support staff for many years during staff absences, training, and maternity breaks. Aware of Linchfield’s desire to revamp their school library for pupils, to replenish their dwindling stock with new and exciting books to encourage and entice more children to read, Mana Education were only too pleased to help in providing them with a wonderful range of new library books.

Local football club, Deeping United FC, are

working alongside Mana as cosponsors, as they too have a very inclusive ethos. Matt Holland, Vice Chairman of Deeping United FC commented, “We were happy to help out, as we all need support from time to time and Deeping United will always champion our local community where • Mana Education, the supply

we can. Our club provides ‘football for all’, taking a development approach rather than assembling teams just intent on winning. This means that players of all abilities, irrespective of gender and physical and mental barriers, have the opportunity to be involved in matches rather than just watching from the side lines.”

Selina Ratchford, said, “We are extremely grateful to both Mana Education and Deeping United for their support. The pupils are thrilled.”

Baston C of E Primary School

We have returned to school and we have all adopted, and adapted to, our new rules and routines around school. We have daily worships via Zoom, or they are led by our class teachers.

In Year 6 we have started to learn about World War One. In our Forest School lessons we have camouflaged each other, and we have started to dig a trench in our wooded area.

Whilst learning about the Stone Age, Year3/ ‘South America’ class have been exploring the different types of homes built during this period of time in history. During our topic lesson we learnt about the variety of materials used and structures; we then tried to replicate a Stone Age village, building different examples of the houses.

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