Lincoln Minster School (Known locally as "LMS" or "The Minster") is an independent co-educational

Coeducation

Mixed-sex education, also known as coeducation or co-education, is the integrated education of male and female persons in the same institution. It is the opposite of single-sex education...

 day and boarding school

Boarding school

A boarding school is a school where some or all pupils study and live during the school year with their fellow students and possibly teachers and/or administrators. The word 'boarding' is used in the sense of "bed and board," i.e., lodging and meals...

 in Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...

, England. It houses scholars in music, sport and academics. It comprises three schools: the pre-preparatory, preparatory, senior school and sixth form. LMS is a fee paying, non-selective school.

History

Lincoln Minster School was formed in 1996 with the amalgamation of three schools:

• The Cathedral School for Boys was the base for the young Cathedral Boy Choristers.
• St Josephs School for Girls which was housed day and boarding girls.
• Stonefield House School which taught children up to the age of 16.

Classrooms

Lincoln Minster has technologically advanced classrooms. Every classroom is equipped with a Dell computer and an ACTIVBoard

Interactive whiteboard

An interactive whiteboard , is a large interactive display that connects to a computer and projector. A projector projects the computer's desktop onto the board's surface where users control the computer using a pen, finger, stylus, or other device...

 (made by Promethean). These electronic white boards enable interactive lessons.

Boarding

Across all the schools there are four houses:

• Hillside (senior girls)
• Lindum View (junior girls)
• Cathedral (senior boys)
• Pottergate (junior boys)
• Andy Wright's Emporium (Misc)

Sports

School sports are rugby union

Rugby union

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

, cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 and Sevens rugby, but most choose Association Football. The girls compete at hockey

Field hockey

Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

, netball

Netball

Netball is a ball sport played between two teams of seven players. Its development, derived from early versions of basketball, began in England in the 1890s. By 1960 international playing rules had been standardised for the game, and the International Federation of Netball and Women's Basketball ...

, rounders

Rounders

Rounders is a game played between two teams of either gender. The game originated in England where it was played in Tudor times. Rounders is a striking and fielding team game that involves hitting a small, hard, leather-cased ball with a round wooden, plastic or metal bat. The players score by...

, Football and athletics.

The school offers many sport extra curricular activities including; Sailing

Sailing

Sailing is the propulsion of a vehicle and the control of its movement with large foils called sails. By changing the rigging, rudder, and sometimes the keel or centre board, a sailor manages the force of the wind on the sails in order to move the boat relative to its surrounding medium and...

, Weight Training and running. The sailing takes place a North Hykeham

North Hykeham

North Hykeham is administratively a town immediately south of Lincoln, in the county of Lincolnshire, England. Geographically it is part of the greater Lincoln urban sprawl, and comprises 4,915 dwellings...

Sailing Club in the sailing season (April-Oct).