Pupils strive for prizes in arts festival

Students will be making a song and dance in a bid to win prizes at an annual festival during the half-term holiday.

Schools from Derby, Nottingham Manchester, Leicester, Sheffield and Doncaster will be among those competing for prizes in the Chesterfield Festival of Dance and Musical Theatre.

The competitors will be judged by Lesley Munn, from the Munn Academy in Kent.

Tupton Hall School is the venue for the festival which runs from Monday, February 15, to Friday, February 19, from 9.30am until 7pm.

This is the third year of the festival.