Third Place in the Rotary Club Quiz
Pupils in Class 1 enjoyed a super night participating in the annual Rotary Club quiz. It was great fun and I think the staff and parents enjoyed it as much as the children.
Pupils in Class 1 enjoyed a super night participating in the annual Rotary Club quiz. It was great fun and I think the staff and parents enjoyed it as much as the children.
Hindu visitors come to Cockwood! We were very pleased to welcome our Hindu visitors Ravi Nathwani and his wife to Cockwood School.
The pupils enjoyed a super session at La Tasca. The children tasted food, watched a cookery lesson and practised some Spanish. Some pupils also had the opportunity to dress up in traditional Spanish clothing.
Pupils and staff enjoyed a super day dressed up as favourite book characters. Prizes were awarded for great costumes. The children spent most of the day in their house teams designing and making a children’s book. The results were fantastic and are on display outside the office. Well done to all of our children for…
Our Head Boy and Head Girl have spent some time working with staff, parents and governors in the formation of our new behaviour and anti-bullying policy. We will share the policy with parents and pupils very soon. They are so busy working with children, visiting other schools and representing Cockwood that we felt it would…
Various groups of children have taken part in gifted and talented events hosted by Dawlish Community College. These included challenge days where our pupils were in competition against other schools in the Learning Community, in the subject areas of Design Technology and Science. Some pupils also became ‘Learning Apprectices’ where they tried to improve their…
Children at Cockwood Primary have been taking part in a memories project. They devoted an entire day to making collages through the decades of school memories. The children were given a homework task of interviewing at least 3 people in their household, family or friends about their own school memories.
This was the message from our visiting dentist Ben Pierce. His talk reminded us about the benefits of caring for our teeth and eating appropriate foods. But it was his demonstration of showing us how much plaque we all have hiding on our teeth which made us sit up and take notice! We soon got…
Class 3 visited St.Mary’s Church at Cofton. We were welcomed by the Vicar Nick Hawkins. We looked for features of the church and drew some. We gathered round the font to take part in the celebration of a Christian Baptism. Our doll Evie Jane was being Baptised. It was a lovely ceremony and Ollie and…
As part of our work on Celebrations in RE we found out about the celebration of the Chinese New Year. We spent a day learning about some of the traditions of this celebration helped by Angela Howell, one of our governors. She kindly brought in lots of artefacts and decorations to share with us and…