A DERBY School reunion for classmates from more than 40 years ago is to be expanded.

Mrs Sylvia Cole, nee Burdaky, is masterminding the nostalgic get-together of pupils who were in the Lower Sixth at the new school from September 1959 to July 1960.

But the level of interest has caused Mrs Cole to extend the scope of the reunion, planned for October 20 this year.

Pupils who were in the Upper Fifth and Upper Sixth in the first year of the new school are also being sought, in addition to people in the Upper Fifth at Bury High School from September 1958 to July 1959, who decided not to move onto the Derby School.

Mrs Cole is currently assistant director of education in Leicestershire, but has just been appointed to the post of director of education to the Falklands Islands Government, which she will take up at the end of the year.

She said: "It would be good to renew old friendships and swap news before I leave. Some of them have already contacted me."

Anyone interested in attending the reunion, should contact Mrs Cole on 0116-235-6911 or Jean Grove, nee Hamilton, on 224-2840.