Lincoln Minster School林肯敏斯特学校

About the school
Lincoln Minster School is an independent, non-academically selective, c-educational day and boarding school for pupils aged between 2 and 18 years. It is part of United Learning and is governed by United Church Schools Trust (UCST). The school also has its own local governing body with specific areas of responsibility delegated to them by UCST. The current headmaster has been in post since September 2015.

Since the previous inspection the preparatory school has moved into larger accommodation. The Harper Building housing the music school was developed further in 2016 to include a drama studio, office, classroom space and accommodation for computer science. The school leadership team has been restructured. A number of appointments have been made to enlarge the local governing body in the last two years.

Lincoln Minster School was formed with the merger of Lincoln Cathedral School, St Joseph's School for Girls and Stonefield House School in 1996. In 2011, St Mary's Preparatory School merged with Lincoln Minster to form Lincoln Minster Preparatory School. The pre-preparatory school then moved to the former St Mary's site.

Lincoln Minster comprises a pre-preparatory school for Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) to Year 2, a preparatory school for Years 3 to 6 and a senior school and sixth form for Years 7 to 13 on three sites in Lincoln's historic quarter. The Mount House was opened in June 2015 as the school's junior boarding house for pupils from Years 3 to 8. The senior boarding houses were reconfigured in 2016; Eastgate House accommodates boys from Years 9 to 13 and Hillside House, girls from Years 9 to 13.

What the school seeks to do
The school aims to provide an inspiring 'Education for Life', from two years of age through to the sixth form in an environment that sets high expectations, facilitates challenge, develops resilience, and stimulates each pupil to fulfil their potential in preparation for the next stage of their lives. It seeks to put pupils first in order to ensure that their talents and abilities are nurtured and
encouraged to flourish in an atmosphere of support and appreciation. The school aims to encourage pupils of different abilities and interests to test new skills and grow in self-esteem.

About the pupils
Pupils come from a range of professional, farming and air-force backgrounds, mostly from white British families living within a 40-mile radius of Lincoln. Boarders come from the UK and overseas.
Nationally standardised data indicates that the ability of the pupils is above average in the preparatory and senior schools and broadly average in the sixth form. The school has identified 77. pupils as having special educational needs (SEND), which include dyslexia, dyspraxia and dyscalculia and 61 receive additional specialist help. There are nine pupils with an Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan. English is an additional language (EAL) for 41 pupils, whose needs are supported in separate EAL lessons, some on a one to one basis. The school has identified 145 pupils as the most able or talented for whom the curriculum is modified and extension activities provided.