On Tuesday 17th October 2017 the school was visited by the Ofsted inspector. “You and your staff are passionate about providing your pupils with the best possible opportunities and strive for improvement. “ “Assessment information is used to finely target pupils’ gaps in learning and, as a result, they make good progress.” “In the early … Read More
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Celebration and Worship
On Friday the 3rd November the whole school gathered together with members of the community, parents and governors in church to celebrate our achievements during the previous term. The service was led by the children themselves and began with a congregational hymn – All Things Bright and Beautiful – accompanied by the community organist Mrs … Read More
Tag Rugby
Hartington children were lucky enough to experience a free session of Tag Rugby on Friday 13th October. This was delivered by Nathan Nolan & Jack Jones of ‘RuggerEds Ltd’ (Education through Rugby) The children thoroughly enjoyed the session and one EYFS child commented ‘That was the best PE lesson I’ve ever had, and I didn’t … Read More
Healthy School Community Award
On Thursday 12th October, Dawn Monk and Karen Mycock (Healthy Child Assistant Practitioners) presented the school with the Derbyshire Healthy Schools Community Award. This is an initiative we have been working towards for the past twelve months and is an excellent achievement and linked seamlessly into last years School Improvement Plan (SIP). The children have … Read More
Speak Out – Stay Safe
The NSPCC came to the school on Thursday 5th October to talk to KS 1 & 2 pupils about how they have the right to ‘Speak Out & Stay Safe’. The representative from the NSPCC introduced them to ‘Buddy’ who encourages children, if they are worried about anything, to speak to a grown up they … Read More
EYFS Playground
Back in Spring term 2017 it was decided to use some of the budget to develop an area for the EYFS. Previously it was overgrown, plain and not very child friendly. So with the help of the year 5/6 children and Miss Gailley a plan was devised, resources identified to meet the seven stages of … Read More
Macmillan Coffee Morning
Cake Baking for Macmillan Coffee Morning[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”45″ gal_title=”Cake baking”] Friday 29th September the school opened its doors at 10:30 am for coffee, tea, cake and biscuits. This was to raise money for the Macmillan Coffee Morning appeal in aid of Cancer. Local parishioner Bell Kerr works closely with the school to help coordinate this event. … Read More
MAST & Harvest
MAST attended for collective worship on Friday 29th September and delivered a worship around ‘God’s Wonderful World’ this was in keeping with the work pupils had been producing for the Harvest Festival display in St Giles Church. The children also helped to pack harvest boxes for the elderly of Hartington community. Surplus donations from local … Read More
Collecting Wild Seeds
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”44″ gal_title=”Seed collecting 2017″] On Friday 15th September the whole school went to Hartington Station to meet Julia Gow from the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust. From there we walked to Hartington Meadows where we were introduced to lots of varieties of wild flowers. The children then carefully collected different seeds to be dried and planted … Read More
Michael Tinker (MAST)
Philip & Nathanael from John 1 Michael Tinker delivered an interactive, engaging and exciting collective worship to the children on Tuesday 19th September. He captured the children’s imagination whilst instilling the ever important Christian Values. The message came clearly across through a variety of media which included puppetry, audio and visual effects. The children were … Read More