We were delighted to welcome Leah Roelich to deliver golf workshops for pupils from Year 2- Year 6. Leah, the golf professional from Dawlish Warren Golf Club, is keen to get children interested in playing golf so has offered to come and deliver an after-school club for anyone keen to try out this sport. Groups…
Everyone at Cockwood Primary was VERY excited to have two film crews in school last week to help us celebrate our achieving ARTSMARK GOLD AWARD. The crews were from Westcountry and Watershed PR. They spent the whole afternoon filming art around the school and interviewing staff and children.
In preparation for the arrival of the Olympic Torch in Exeter, pupils from Cockwood Primary School wowed the crowds on Sunday.
The year 2s have been finding out about nocturnal animals and night-time. We were lucky to have Billie the bat lady in to show the children some bats and talk about her role protecting and looking after injured bats.
Cockwood School have been delighted to be involved in the Olympic banner project at Exeter Cathedral. The banners are to celebrate the Olympic torch arriving in Exeter this week. All the children in class 1 and 2 were involved in working alongside professional artists to create the banners and when they were all on…
As part of our commitment to high quality arts education we are always striving for ways to enagage with our pupils following a very cultural sculpture walk we wanted to psuh the boundaries and look at a totally different art-form…Urban Street Art- Graffitti.
Class 2 and class 3 spent a ‘wet” day following the Sculpture Trail around the grounds of the Streatham Campus of Exeter University. The rain didnt dampen our spirits and all the children enjoyed sketching and photogrpahing some of the fantastic sculptures on show.
Things are changing on the class 2 mezzanine…staff and parent volunteers have been working hard to create our new library. Over the next few weeks the library is being catalogued and made more ‘user-friendly’.
Class 2 and 3 are looking at ‘Sculpture’ in Art this term. Class 3 have been finding out about ‘What is a sculpture?’ and experimenting making sculptures with play dough, plasticine and junk modelling.
Children from class 3 have been busy helping to plant up hanging baskets to decorate the school grounds. A few budding Percy Throwers in the making!