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A LOCAL care provider which enables older people to remain independent in their own homes has been spreading Easter cheer. Home Instead, Ilkley, Skipton and Settle, launched ‘Be an Easter Bunny to a Senior’ campaign in March to benefit their own clients and other older people in the community. It follows the successful ‘Be a Santa to a Senior campaign’ which ran last year when the company asked local primary schools to create and donate Christmas cards, artwork or messages of love to an older person over the festive season. Kathy Myers, Community Representative at Home Instead Ilkley, Skipton and Settle said: “In March, we asked local schools to take part in our ‘Be an Easter Bunny to a Senior’ campaign, following on from the success of our Christmas version.
FORMER Westville House School pupil Isla Slade is celebrating passing her Foundation Maths GCSE at the age of 11. Isla, who is now in her first year at Ilkley Grammar School, sat the paper in November 2020, scoring 217 out of 240 to achieve the highest exam grade for the foundation paper, a Grade 5. She was encouraged to sit the exam during her final two years at Westville, where she joined several other children in attending a weekly after-school club for gifted mathematicians run by specialist maths teacher and deputy head, Mr Chris O’Doherty. Mr O’Doherty said: “Our whole ethos at Westville is to provide a nurturing environment where those children we recognise as gifted in key subjects, such as maths, are pushed beyond the primary curriculum to tackle more challenging problems. We are absolutely delighted with Isla’s result. She is a very bright pupil and was really keen to take on the challenge of Foundation Maths GCSE. The fact she achieved such a high score is