As part of the local geography and history curriculum along side the community work the children have begun familiarizing themselves with the village trail and the land marks recorded on it. This work is a prelude to future research regarding the impact of this accessible resource, which will also include a trip to Eyam and a comparison made between the established trails within each village. Naturally this will encompass the origins and subsequent devastation the Black Death caused.

On Tuesday 18th April, Hannah Wills from MAST visited the school to deliver her Bible story  ‘The Story So Far’ – Abraham from the Old Testament. They then sang the song ‘Children of God’ – see link below.

On Friday 21st April Mr & Mrs Briddon visited school to deliver the puppet story ‘Stranger on the Shore’. As always the children fully engage with these wonderful presentations of stories from the New Testament.

The content of this particular story was a creative way to develop the children’s understanding of the Easter story and Pentecost. MAST is an integral part of the schools delivery of Collective Worship.

Friday 31st March, last day of term before the Easter break, was a day full of Easter happiness and excitement.

In the morning the class one children visited St Giles Church to complete the Spring display. This consisted of the whole school working together to make their Easter Garden and displaying work around  spring scene creators, Prayers, individual representations of Holy Week.

After lunch the Easter Bunny visited school and left lots of Easter eggs for the children to find. The afternoon culminated with an Easter Service, where parents and governors were invited. The service, written using the Roots and Fruits, Creative Collective Worship book, was all about how Jesus sacrificed his life on Good Friday and was resurrected on Easter Sunday. The children’s was warmly received by all who attended and comments were made again by the audience as to how wonderful it was that the school could deliver face to face services again.

On Friday 17th March the children came to school dressed in Red for Red Nose day.  As always the children thoroughly enjoyed having a non uniform day and were all excited to take part in this worthwhile event. Even the catering manager of the school got involved by baking delicious red nose day biscuits, which  went down a treat! The school made £48 for this charity.

On Friday 17th March Mr & Mrs Briddon were able to visit the school, following the rescheduling of their pre arranged visit due to the heavy snow fall and the school being closed. As always the children sat attentively taking in the content of the Bible story ‘David the Shepherd Boy’. When asked for volunteers every child wanted to take part as these much loved stories are always looked forward to and enjoyed.

Mr & Mrs Briddon are very much appreciated by all at Hartington and we are very grateful to them for their  continued support. The many donations they have provided us with continue to support the schools delivery of RE and Collective Worship.

Hannah Wills from MAST visited on Tuesday 28th February to deliver her interactive Collective Worship to the children. This visit saw her re tell the Easter Story with the children taking an active part.

Hartington C of E Primary School along with other small rural schools join together for sports sessions on Parwich playing field run by Primary Stars. Following these sessions Hartington decided to engage the services of Primary Stars to deliver PE on a Wednesday afternoon to both classes.  The delivery is dynamic, fast paced and pupils are enjoying the lessons.

Mr Shaw  also runs a lunch time club, which all the children attend, before delivering a session to class 1 followed by class 2.