Derby Cathedral School headteacher welcomes announcement on disposal vapes
A Derby headteacher has welcomed plans to ban disposable vapes as schools across the country have seen an alarming rise in young people taking up the habit. Jenny Brown, of Derby Cathedral School, in Great Northern Road, is part of a group of headteachers from across the city who have been working together to tackle […]
Two village schools join the Derby Diocesan Academy Trust family
Two village schools with less than 50 pupils between them say they have joined a new family after becoming part of a Derbyshire academy trust. Teresa Bosley, head teacher of both Marston Montgomery Primary School, in Marston Montgomery, and Long Lane Primary School in Dalbury Lees, has announced that the two schools have joined Derby […]
Penguin PR picks up a hat-trick of new clients
LEADING Derby public relations agency Penguin PR is celebrating a series of new clients wins as it looks forward to another year of continued growth and expansion. Penguin PR, based at Oaklands in Duffield Road, has added three new accounts to its growing client base – education provider Odyssey Collaborative Trust, brand new restaurant chain […]
Holocaust survivor Dr Martin Stern shares his experience with The Bemrose School pupils
A MAN who was just five-years-old when he was taken away to a Nazi concentration camp in the Netherlands says that young people have the opportunity to “change the world”. Dr Martin Stern MBE was speaking ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day and following a whistle-stop tour of local schools that included Repton School, Derby Grammar […]
School helping to shape the future of BSL GSCE
BSL tutor Katherine teaching Hilal and Macie at Allestree Woodlands School
Derbyshire science company Lubrizol donates funds to help people with learning difficulties enjoy a festive bash
Derbyshire science company Lubrizol has helped put the sparkle into Christmas for people with learning difficulties by paying for a slap-up festive do. Through its charities and communities committee, Lubrizol gave a generous donation so that staff at Belper Mencap – who support people living with learning difficulties – could enjoy a Christmas party complete […]
World’s Toughest Row awaits Derby granddad Vic as he reveals his transatlantic dream
A former company director of a ground engineering firm is using his retirement to achieve a lifelong ambition – to take part in the World’s Toughest Row and cross the Atlantic solo. Sixty-nine-year-old Vic Handley, former deputy group managing director of Nottinghamshire ground engineering firm Van Elle, has set his sights on becoming the second-oldest […]
Annie flies the flag for an American Christmas taste tradition as she creates an egg-free eggnog
Families are being invited to step into the kitchen and rustle up a delicious vegan version of America’s favourite Christmas drink – eggnog. American-born Annie Spaziano, who runs the popular Annie’s Burger Shack burger restaurants in Derby and Nottingham, has concocted a plant-based version of the festive tipple she hopes might help the drink take […]
Christmas comes early with a party for young adults who grew up in care across Derby and Burton
Young adults who have grown up in care enjoyed a festive meal and danced the afternoon away at two special Christmas parties in Derby and Burton. More than 150 teenagers and young people from East Staffordshire, South Derbyshire and Derby who have been through the care system tucked into a turkey dinner with all the […]
Murray Park welcomes trainee teachers to give them a taste of being interviewed
A Derby school has been helping prepare the future generation of teachers by putting them through their paces in the interview room. Murray Park Community School, in Mickleover, welcomed 14 students from the Developing Teachers Schools Academies (DTSA) for mock interviews so they could learn more about the process with members of the school’s leadership […]