Pleckgate High School pupils have been using virtual reality technology to look around a 16th century hall.

The pupils to look around Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire with the help of a project run by Carmel Bones.

Pleckgate’s head of history Martyn Bajkowski said: "This project was a tremendous success for us.

"It enabled our students and staff to prepare for the trip, allowed the trip itself to be more meaningful and purposeful as well as allowing us to consolidate the learning afterwards.

"We were delighted to be selected to pilot the project and this just emphasises one element of the cutting edge teaching and learning taking place across the department.

"It is an honour to have had this work recognised and published in the world-wide publication ‘Teaching History’ as well as education magazine ‘Innovate My School’ and we look forward to contributing further to both publications in due course."