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

June
Mon 1st – INSET – school closed for pupils
Tue 2nd – School opens for Summer 2 Term 
Tue 2nd – Craft Club starts 3.30-4.30pm
Wed 3rd – Tempest Class Photos 9am
Wed 3rd – IT Club starts 3.30-4.30pm
Thur 4th – Lego Club starts 3.30-4.30pm
Mon 8th – The Great Big Green Week starts
Thur 11th – Live Lesson 11am “Voices from Malawi & Sierra Leone”
Wed 17th – Sprint Active – Quidditch 9-11am
Thur 18th – MAST Assembly – Hannah Will
Fri 19th – Pottery Day – Whole School 
Fri 26th – Puppet Assembly 10.30am
Mon 29th – INSET – school closed for pupils

July
Fri 3rd – Y6 Day Out Treat
Mon 6th – RSE teaching begins
Thur 9th – Governors Meeting 4.30pm
Fri 10th – End of Year Church Service 2.30pm
Tue 14th – Music Concert – cancelled -alternative event to be arranged
Tue 14th – Last Craft Club
Wed 15th – Last IT Club
Thur 16th – STEM Day
Thur 16th – Last Lego Club
Fri 17th – National Space Centre Trip – Whole School
Mon 20th – Y6 Memories Gathering with parents
Tue 21st – Last Day of Term for pupils