News and Updates

News and updates; With our belief ‘Every Child Matters’, here you will find our good news stories, from winning awards to sponsoring a local girls football team, as well as the great work our team and partners achieve, even through the hardest of (pandemic) times.

 

Other Charitable Activities

Learn about more of DTSA’s charitable activities and the work being delivered in schools by following the links to these pages:

➡️ Enthuse Projects

➡️ SEND Training

➡️ School Trips

 

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The DTSA team spent 3 days with St Johns Ambulance in Derby refreshing, and in some cases, learning first aid skills for the first time. Covering everything from splinters and nose bleeds through to shock, heart attacks and severe allergic reactions and much more besides, the...

SLP facts and figures for the Spring Term are in! Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire SLP has delivered 2496 hours of CPD this term and since September 2023 have engaged with: 329 Primary Schools 1186 Primary Teachers 101 Secondary Schools 578 Secondary Teachers     Leicestershire & Northamptonshire SLP has delivered 1092 hours of CPD...

  STEM Week at George Spencer Academy     Enthuse Partner, George Spencer Academy have brought science to life this week with STEM Week. Great work! "This week we are celebrating all things science, technology and maths with STEM week! It was kickstarted with our first...

Life Cycle Experiments at Whitecross Nursery School It's always really lovely to see science in action! "We’ve got some baby caterpillars in nursery they’re so tiny just now but they will grow. And then what do you think will happen?"   ...

Year 13 John Port Students Synthesise Nylon It's really good to hear what students at John Port Academy are doing. Keep up the great work! "Today, Year 13 chemistry students learnt about and synthesised nylon."   ...

Rocket Launch 🚀   SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 22 Starlink satellites from California "A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the West Coast with another batch of 22 Starlink satellites at 8:11 p.m. PST Thursday (11:11 p.m. EST / 0411 UTC). The Starlink 7-15 mission roared away from Space...

Success for John Port in the British Biology Olympiad    What an amazing achievement from John Port Spencer Academy's biology students! A huge congratulations to everyone involved. "Congratulations to our biology students. In the British Biology Olympiad we achieved 1 Gold, 2 Silver, 13 Bronze with 23...

John Port Represented at the Cambridge Chemistry Race   Well done to John Port's Year 12 chemistry students Lara, Sam, Alex, Maisie and Naomi, who represented the school at the Cambridge Chemistry Race this week! "We are so proud of our Year 12 chemistry students. They did a...

We love to see what the children are getting up to in the science clubs! "This week in science club the students created foam fire extinguishers and built rafts to escape from their desert island.   ...