This term we have our specialist music teacher Rachel Wilkes delivering to the children on Tuesday afternoons. They will be following the Charanga Music School system which is an award-winning primary music education programme. Charanga are passionate about children’s music learning and its potential to help them grow up as kind, curious, and open-minded young … Read More
Cookery Club takes place each Monday after school and they are getting better and better! Having started with making Cheesy Twists, week two saw them shaking like crazy to make their own butter! After lots of fun and giggles (and tired arms!) Katie labelled up all the individual pats of butter to store them in … Read More
This afternoon the children and staff went to St Giles’ Church for an afternoon focusing on the upcoming period of Lent. The afternoon focused on four main areas: · Listening – Lent is for hearing God · Lengthening – Preparing for Christian living · Letting go – A focus on Shrove Tuesday · Keeping going … Read More
On Tuesday 30th of January 2024 Class 1 had a visit in school from an author we have worked with before, called Bemma Akyeampong. Bemma has previously visited the school for African dance workshops and during Covid we had the opportunity, via video call, for her to read to us her story of Ayuda’s messy … Read More
On Friday the 26th of January 2024 the school were visited by Ian Brealey from Doodlebug. He delivered a workshop to support the mental health and well being of the pupils and this was linked to The Growth Mindset. The workshop involved everyone, both children and adults, creating a picture of a cartoon character using … Read More
This week in school, children in class 1 have been joined by local author Linda Woodruffe. This is to support and help develop the children’s creative writing skills and work towards producing their own book with characters and setting imagined by themselves. The visit has been hugely successful and the children have approached the tasks … Read More
During the final week of term, the children enjoyed a visit to the pantomime of Cinderella performed at the Opera House in Buxton. This is a tradition both pupils and staff enjoy and it was wonderful to see how animated they all were during the performance. Then later on the final day of the autumn … Read More
On Friday the 12th of January we were joined in school by Mr and Mrs Briddon from MAST for collective worship. Along with the help of Nicky and Nora the puppets, they told the story of Baby Moses, from Exodus 1-4. As always the children enjoyed the interactive nature of the worship and joined in … Read More
The annual School performance of the Nativity took place at St Giles’ Church in Hartington on Tuesday 12th December. The whole school took part in the production and worked extremely hard to ensure that lines were learnt and songs were perfect with dance moves to match, to deliver the wonderful rendition of this well-known … Read More
Friday 17th November was Children in Need day which the Children always take part in. This year, their request was to come to School in their pyjamas for a donation of £1. Katie Kitchen (the School Catering Supervisor) served Fish, Chips and Peas followed by a homemade Pudsey Biscuit which looked too good to eat, … Read More