01
Apr
Senior House Music 2021
This year’s Senior House Music competition was slightly different! This year we held it virtually, with students recording their performances at home in February. Videos were submitted to Mrs Lesley, Head of Senior Music, and were entered into the competition for adjudication by Mrs Jack.
There were over 80 entries and the overall winning house was St Patrick!
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26
Mar
Senior High Notes 26th March 2021
The past three weeks back have provided us all with a degree of normality, albeit with a variety of restrictions in place, and the students have all responded amazingly. We can also feel positivity for the future – not only to deliver the best education possible in the safest way possible, but also to ensure that Derby High School comes back even stronger than ever after the enforced period of remote learning, with a re-doubled sense of the vital purpose of education and a commitment to achieving our individual academic and personal potential.
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26
Mar
Primary High Notes 26th March 2021
The past three weeks back have provided us all with a degree of normality, albeit with a variety of restrictions in place, and the pupils have all responded amazingly. We can also feel positivity for the future – not only to deliver the best education possible in the safest way possible, but also to ensure that Derby High School comes back even stronger than ever after the enforced period of remote learning, with a re-doubled sense of the vital purpose of education and a commitment to achieving our individual academic and personal potential.
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26
Mar
Primary High Notes 19th March 2021
There is nothing quite like a smile to make you feel good. In my live assembly on Thursday we all shared our best and biggest smiles. I asked the children to think about a time when someone has given them a smile that has made them feel good. I often share songs in my assemblies which have poignant lyrics, and Michael Bubble’s version of When You’re Smiling was just perfect to start our assembly. In particular the lyrics When you're smilin', The whole world, it smiles with you and When you're laughin' The sun comes shinin' through.
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19
Mar
Senior High Notes 19th March 2021
This week, I have been doing one of my favourite tasks of the year - interviewing each of our L6 students to award prefect roles for the next 12 months. Accompanying me in this have been Mr Gallagher and our Sixth Form tutors who know these students particularly well. We have all been so impressed by the confidence, enthusiasm and breadth of talent these students exhibited during their interviews.
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12
Mar
Senior High Notes 12th March 2021
Combine a Tinkerbell quote, a duet from Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston and a song from the Shrek movie and you have my Senior assembly this week! The important message behind all of this was that when you believe in yourself, what seems impossible might just be possible. Sometimes we are faced with great obstacles in our own lives – conflict with our friends, family break-up, stress, worries about school, Covid-19 – and we think that it is impossible to find a solution. Yet, even in those situations, if we persevere and believe in ourselves, a way forward often seems to open up.
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12
Mar
Primary High Notes 12th March 2021
Combine a Tinkerbell quote, a duet from Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston and a song from the Shrek movie and you have my Primary assembly this week! The important message behind all of this was that when you believe in yourself, what seems impossible might just be possible. Sometimes we are faced with great obstacles in our own lives – conflict with our friends, family break-up, stress, worries about school, Covid-19 – and we think that it is impossible to find a solution. Yet, even in those situations, if we persevere and believe in ourselves, a way forward often seems to open up.
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05
Mar
Senior High Notes 5th March 2021
It’s now three years since we announced our decision to welcome boys into the Senior School, after 125 years of educating girls only from the age of 11. The success of the decision to move to welcoming boys throughout was clear right from the beginning, with boys joining the Senior School both in Year 7 and the Sixth Form in 2019.
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05
Mar
Primary High Notes 5th March 2021
It’s now three years since we announced our decision to welcome boys into the Senior School, after 125 years of educating girls only from the age of 11. The success of the decision to move to welcoming boys throughout was clear right from the beginning, with boys joining the Senior School both in Year 7 and the Sixth Form in 2019.
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03
Mar
Exciting News! Three Form Entry in Senior School in September 2021
It’s now three years since Derby High, an independent coeducational day school with 540 students, announced that it was welcoming boys into the Senior School, after 125 years of educating girls only from the age of 11. For the Primary pupils, co-education was something to which they were already well accustomed, with each year group from ages 3-11 having a mix of boys and girls.
The success of the decision to move to welcoming boys throughout was clear right from the beginning, with boys joining the Senior School both in Year 7 and the Sixth Form in 2019. Two years on, the school is expanding further, adding an additional form for pupils at age 11, in response to increased demand for places.
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