L.E.A.D. IT backs Notts County junior ladies with season-long sponsorship deal
A leading IT company has given its backing to a girls’ football team as they prepare for the start of a new season. L.E.A.D. IT Services, which specialises in working with schools and multi-academy trusts including East Midlands-based Embark Federation, Reach2 Academy and L.E.A.D. Academy, will sponsor Notts County FC Girls for the 2022/23 season. […]
All change at award-winning Derby accountancy company
Bev Wakefield, co-founder of Vibrant Accountancy. IT’S all change at a leading Derby accountancy company as one of its co-founders takes on sole ownership. Bev Wakefield, who set up award-winning Vibrant Accountancy with Ian Ball in September 2019, will lead the business from September 1, with co-founder Ian Ball moving to Pride Park-based CoMech Metrology […]
TV’s Dan Walker is lined-up for Derby Book Festival
Television presenter and Strictly Come Dancing star Dan Walker will be waltzing his way to Derby to headline this year’s autumn edition of the city’s popular book festival. Sheffield-based Dan has been announced as the first of 12 authors who will be visiting the city during Derby Book Festival, which this year runs from November […]
Medically-minded pupils get hands-on in surgery
Aspiring medical students put their scalpels – and stomachs – to the test when they dissected animal organs to learn more about the human body. More than 40 talented students were invited to give up a week of their summer holiday to learn new skills and the live operating theatre session was a must for […]
Murray Park celebrate GCSE results
Staff and students at Murray Park School are celebrating another fantastic year of GCSE results, with some brilliant individual performances leaving students elated. Based in Mickleover, the school recorded Grade 4+ pass percentages of 75.4% and 66.3% in English and maths respectively, whilst also recording a 6% uplift on pre pandemic results in English and […]
GCSE success for The Long Eaton School
A Long Eaton secondary school has celebrated successful GCSE results – and one student has overcome more than most. Deeti Wren, a student at The Long Eaton School on Thorseby Road, achieved her GCSEs despite having been diagnosed with a brain tumour on Christmas Eve last year. The year 11 student was diagnosed with prolactinoma, […]
Derby academy “absolutely delighted” with its first official exam results on GCSE day
The principal of a Derby academy has said she is “absolutely delighted” with the school’s first set of official exam results on GCSE day. Alvaston Moor Academy, the secondary on Bracken’s Lane which started under its new name in September 2021, celebrated some excellent results when GCSE results were announced on August 25. One of […]
Outstanding GCSE Results at Derby Grammar School
Derby Grammar School is celebrating an outstanding GCSE results day. 20% of scores were the top grade 9, and 53% of all results were grades 9-7. Head teacher Paul Logan said the pupils richly deserved the high scores which showed the true resilience and hard work of the pupils during a challenging period due to […]
Hopes for sweet success at the baking Oscars!
A Derby artisan doughnut company is earning national recognition after being shortlisted for a prestigious baking award which recognises excellence in the industry. Luxury doughnut company, Project D, has been announced as one of three bakeries to be shortlisted for the Online Bakery of the Year category in the respected Baking Industry Awards 2022. The […]
Derby children cuddle snakes and creepy crawlies during summer school zoo visit
Do you know why are an owl’s feathers are so soft? Why a skunk doesn’t smell bad most of the time? That a millipede doesn’t really have a thousand legs? And why a blue-tongued skink has … a blue tongue? Derby children found out the answers to all these questions and more after the zoo […]