{"id":4401,"date":"2025-03-28T09:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T09:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=4401"},"modified":"2026-02-18T00:12:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:12:45","slug":"limebrook-primary-school-and-nursery-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=4401","title":{"rendered":"Limebrook Primary School and Nursery Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sir John Whittingdale performed the official opening ceremony of the new Limebrook Primary School and Nursery in Maldon. Sir John was accompanied by Justin James, CEO of Lion Academy Trust, Tony Ball, Essex County Council Cabinet Member for Education and Deputy Cabinet Member, Andrew Sheldon, Mayor of Maldon Cllr Andrew Lay, and representatives of Morgan Sindall Construction and Ingleton Wood Consultants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lion Academy Trust – Limebrook Primary School and Nursery<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sir John said: \u201cHaving signed one of the steel struts at the ceremony  in September 2023, it is fantastic to see the school completed and open to pupils. I congratulate the County Council and all those involved in constructing it so quickly and to such a high standard. I am also delighted that the school is now part of the Lion Academy Trust school family and look forward to seeing it grow. Having been three times oversubscribed for the coming September entry, I have no doubt that it will be very popular and will be a real asset to the town\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sir John is pictured with Tony Ball, Cllr Andrew Lay and Justin James performing the opening, and with them as well as others in the school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Official opening of Limebrook Primary School and Nursery in Maldon, welcoming new education provision for the town and recognising the work of partners involved in delivering the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5469,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401\/revisions\/5469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}