Through our distinctively Christian ethos, we also encourage our pupils to be spiritual.

This can be defined as:

  • Religion and worship
  • Relationships to other and/or to God
  • Evocative or favourite places and experiences
  • Creativity and responses to Art and music
  • Mystery and what we can’t really understand (asking Big Questions)
  • Prayer, silence and meditation
  • The opposite of what we can touch and feel (the material world)
  • Experiences which take us beyond ourselves

At Hartington C of E Primary School we encourage the children to question what is going around them in world, what they see, what they hear and what they experience.

We will be collecting Big Questions from the children and staff and posing them here on this page.  Hopefully we will all learn more about each other and the world around us as we talk and think about the questions we’ve asked!

Here are a few to get you thinking!

“Who am I?”

“Why am I here?”

“Who is more important – you or me?”

“What is more important – the Earth or the Sun?”

“Why is our world a place of wonder?”

“Is Heaven as big as the Earth?”

“Could you walk around the whole world?”

“What does God look like?”

“How would you bring peace to the world?”

“Why should we care about the environment?”

“What is heavier – light or dark?”

“How do you know for certain that you exist?”

 

 

Big Questions

NOTICEBOARD

2026

January 
Mon 5th – INSET Day
Tues 6th – Back to school
W/c 12th Clubs begin this week for 5 weeks:-
Tues 13th – Craft 3.30-4.30pm
Weds 14th – Cookery 3.30-5.00pm
Thurs 15th – Lego 3.30-4.30pm
Thurs 15th – MAST Assembly 9.15am
Fri 23rd – Puppet Assembly 10.30am

February
Weds 4th – Collective Worship with Rev. Nicola
Thurs 5th – Governors Mtg 4.30pm
Thurs 12th – STEM Day
Fri 13th – Last day of Spring 1 Term
HALF TERM
Mon 23rd – Spring 2 Term begins
Thurs 26th – MAST Assembly 9.15am