The School Council organised a sponsored “Run, Skip & Gallop” around the school playground on Friday 17th May to raise money for one of their charities of choice, the Air Ambulance service. In the morning, we had an assembly presented by Tracy Jones, of the Air Ambulance, who told the children all about the vital … Read More
To celebrate their hard work in Cafe conversational French with Mrs Fletcher Class 2 enjoyed an afternoon of their very own “French” Cafe beautifully created by our lovely cook Mrs White and Mrs Fletcher. Using their new acquired French language skills the children ordered their food and drinks from the Cafe and enjoyed the patisserie … Read More
DCC Early Years Service have issued advice to schools to pass on to their parents regarding an increase in cases of Whooping Cough across the country, and there have been some confirmed cases among Derbyshire residents. They want to promote the vaccine message, especially to pregnant women. The vaccine is safe to be given in … Read More
The school would like to say a big thank you to the landlords of The Devonshire Arms, and parents of a child at school, for their kind donation of a set of 6 very sparkly Hula Hoops and a Marble Run Game. The children are delighted with the new additions to the school equipment and … Read More
The EYFS and KS1 children enjoyed a morning at Parwich taking part in the Fundamentals Festival organised by Primary Stars. They were lucky enough to have a lovely sunny day for their fun games too!
Hartington and Biggin children came together again on Thursday 21st March for their termly ‘School’s Together’ event hosted by members from the church and community. The children and staff look forward and immensely enjoy the activities, songs and chat whilst enjoying juice and biscuits. The theme for the session was Easter and Holy Week which … Read More
The Easter Service took place on Monday 25th March in St. Giles’ Church in front of a congregation of families, community and friends of the school. The children and RE co-ordinator had worked extremely hard planning a most poignant re-telling of the Easter Story, which is often said to be the most important story in … Read More
It seems almost everyone enjoys playing with ‘Lego; and the children here at Hartington are no exception and on Monday 18th March they enjoyed a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Day. This was delivered by Dave Lydford, who built the world’s first Wells Dressing, all from 20,000 pieces of Lego! The children enjoyed building … Read More
On Friday 15th March children all over the country were celebrating the annual event of ‘Comic Relief’. The children were invited to ‘Dress their best,’ but wear an item of red for a £1. The school raised forty pounds for this very worthwhile charity. Katie Kitchen, the school’s catering supervisor made a delicious lunch of … Read More
Children’s love and enjoyment of reading is always evident on World Book Day and this year was no exception. On Thursday 7th March the staff and children were invited to dress in any book character they liked and admired then to take a photograph of themselves reading in an unusual place! ‘Katie Kitchen’ dressed as … Read More