Halloween 2020
Pupils and Staff enjoyed an amazing day dressed up in Halloween costumes this week. Pupils carved pumpkins, created spooky paintings and enjoyed some amazing science activities.
Harvest celebration 2020
Unfortunately due to the current restrictions we held our Harvest celebrations at school. The Reverend Richard Allen visited each class individually to lead a Harvest celebration with the children Our theme this year for Harvest was Empathy with a direct focus on our community and nature. This year we supported the Foodbank set up at…
World Book Day 2020
Everyone enjoyed sharing their love of books for World Book Day last week. The children took part in a range of book-related tasks from designing book covers, creating quizzes and designing their own book-marks. This year the children had a choice to either dress-up , bring in a prop as a clue to a book…
African Drumming with Shumba Arts
The children at Cockwood experienced a drumming masterclass this week from Allan Kerr at Shumba Arts! Each class spent a session at the village hall, learning how to play the African ‘djembe’ drum through call and response activities and lots of playing! Allan talked to the children about the origin of the African drum, how…
Class 1 Visit to Sawmills Solar Fam
To enhance pupils learning on ‘Sustainability’, Class 1 visited a local solar farm and then took part in practical workshops back in school. There were two sessions for the children to complete during the morning at the solar farm. The first was the Solar Farm Challenge, led by Mary, Education Officer; children had a challenge…
Trip to the Recycling Centre and Energy from Waste Centre
Class 1 are currently looking into ways we can help to save the planet. We are trying to identify the little things we can all do which will have a big impact. As part of our learning, we have been lucky to visit two sites in Exeter working towards a more sustainable future for our…
Gold Award for Cockwood School
We are delighted to announce we have been awarded the Gold Standard for our work on Parliament. We welcomed our local MP, Anne Marie Morris to an assembly to celebrate this amazing achievement. The children in Class 1 had prepared some questions for her linked to our work on recycling and sustainability.
Digital Leaders
Our Digital Leaders have enjoyed sharing their knowledge of coding with their classmates this week. They spent the whole afternoon coding using Microbit. They had been previously trained on how to set up the equipment and how to explore its features. It was a really successful session as the children worked collaboratively and learnt from…
Grand Finale
Class 1 children welcomed parents and grandparents into school this week to look at their work they have completed on World War 2. This included a wide range of writing, drawing, information text and the incredible Anderson shelters, they have built as part of a homework project. The children were given a brief and a…
Election fever at Cockwood School
After participating in Parliament Week, the children were really interested to find out more about the different local candidates and parties taking part in the General Election. They brought in lots of leaflets from home and we analysed the text, layout, pledges, facts and figures. We decided to run our own mock General Election and…