This year the May Pole performance was undertaken on two separate occasions to a maximum audience of 30 people due to the Covid Pandemic restrictions. On Tuesday 6th and Friday 9th July the pupils performed 4 modern dances around the May Pole , songs and 4 very powerful poems about Dementia. These were written … Read More
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Renewing our link to Uganda
Adhering to government guidelines the children and staff were pleased to welcome to the school a new friend from Uganda Mary Cholok who is an International Ugandan netball athlete. She came to share her experiences as a child and young person whilst living in her home in Uganda. Mary plays international netball with a former … Read More
Speak Out – Stay Safe – NSPCC
0800 1111 – Child line On Friday 2nd July the pupils met Buddy, a friendly, green speech bubble who believes that children should be able to speak out to someone if they’re worried or unhappy. Unfortunately Buddy couldn’t be there in person this year due to the current climate, but his representatives Ant & Dec … Read More
Litter Pick
On Tuesday 29th June the pupils of Hartington School undertook a Litter pick, with their Community Buddies – ‘Silver Sports’, around the litter ‘hot spots’ of the village. This involved the pupils going around their allotted area with a litter picker, protective gloves and a pink refuse bags searching for discarded … Read More
Wild Flower Gardens
Wednesday 23rd June – On a beautiful summer’s day, in June, members of the school and community met together in the open air of the church yard to study the newly sown wild flower garden. This is only one of six areas that have been seeded to create a wild flower trail across the village. … Read More
MAST ‘Jesus & the Children’
It was lovely to be able to invite Mr & Mrs Briddon from MAST, into the school today to deliver their puppet assemblies now that the restrictions have been reviewed. Staff kept the visit very ‘hush hush’ and as the children entered the hall they were excited to be greeted by their favourite puppet show. … Read More
Bikeability
On Monday 21st June the year 3,4,5 and 6 pupils undertook level 1 bikeability on the school yard delivered by Nicola Dick. The children learned how to adjust their helmets to fit properly, check the bikes to ensure they were road worthy and finally to make sure that the clothes they were wearing were suitable … Read More
Royal mail ‘Heroes’ stamp design + Captain Tom’s 100
For more than 50 years Royal Mail’s Special Stamp programme has commemorated British history and achievement. Stamps have also been issued to honour the achievements of many British people. Often, the people who appear on stamps are already famous. They include scientists and explorers, writers, artists, musicians, athletes, and Prime Ministers. Since the coronavirus pandemic … Read More
Eclipse
Thursday 10th June Some parts of the world have seen the annular eclipse or so-called ring of fire in full, but from the UK there has been a partial solar eclipse. Thanks to Patrick Poitevin of ‘Scopes4sen’ our children were able to use safe solar filters and glasses to get a brief glimpse of the … Read More
Blue Peter recipient
Our school community is tremendously proud of an older pupil who during the first lock down, demonstrated our school vision of ‘Loving our neighbour as we love ourselves’ Luke 10-27. She single handily raised over £3000 for the Christies NHS foundation Trust, New Cancer Centre in Macclesfield by running ’50 MILES IN 50 DAYS’. … Read More