Comic Relief was introduced on the BBC live on Christmas Day in 1985. It was set up by famous film writer and director Richard Curtis and friends. BBC1 showed the charity’s first live, fundraising show called ‘A Night of Comic Relief’ on the 5th of February 1988. This was also called the first Red Nose … Read More
On Friday 14th of March 2025 we went to St. Giles’ Church in Hartington for School’s together. The focus this term was ‘Precious and loved by God’. The theme and key ideas were that Christians believe that God created everything including people. Christian’s believe that God loves people like a good Father loves his children. … Read More
World Book Day has come around again and the school has once again risen to the challenge of choosing a favourite story and character. When the doors opened this morning a host of storybook heroes and heroines entered the school with their chosen books. These individuals ranged from dinosaurs to wizards, unicorns to Gangsta Grannies, … Read More
The children were enthralled during the story of “The Lost Sheep”. You could have heard a pin drop even though the school was celebrating “World Book Day” and there were many different characters in the audience! A testament to the members of MAST and the children’s love of the stories from the Bible.
WOW! What an absolutely super day we all had working with the Peak District National Park’s Engagement Team in Macclesfield Forest. The weather was wonderful and it matched the mood of everyone throughout the day as they undertook activities investigating and exploring the locality looking for evidence of habitats, wildlife and changes to the environment. … Read More
On Tuesday the 4th of March 2025 the worship team led the Collective worship. It was all about Shrove Tuesday and pancakes. The team took turns to read from the PowerPoint they had selected and a prayer was read, written by two of the team members. The themes explored were why Christians have pancake day … Read More
The school was extremely lucky to have another visit from the author Bemma Akyeampong. The Early Years and KS1 children sat enthralled as Bemma told them the story of her latest book. The the older children were eager to share with her their memories of her last visit. The story time session was followed by … Read More
Over the last 5 weeks of term all of the children have been taking part in Table Tennis activities using a programme of study devised by Table Tennis England known as TT KIDZ. The table tennis related activities have been taking place in the village hall and led by TT coaches from the Wirksworth Junior … Read More
Hannah Will from MAST visited school again today (Tuesday 4th February) to deliver a Collective Worship around the story of the Wise Men. As the story is quite familiar to all the children Hannah surprised them with a Pop Quiz to test their knowledge! All good fun and lots of good knowledge! Hannah also revisited … Read More
L-R – Kay Baggley -HDCFR; Tracy Blackwell -Headteacher of Hartington CofE Primary School; Neil Tomlinson – Derbyshire Freemasons; Stepen Trowbridge – Trained First Responder HDCFR; Liz Broomhead MBE – HDCFR. Teddies for Loving Care (TLC) is a nationwide initiative funded and administered by Freemasons. Derbyshire Freemasons have supported the scheme for over 20 years and … Read More