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…
Class 1 visited the Exeter synagogue. Mr. Boam kindly showed us round. We saw many important features including The Ark containing the Torah scrolls, the Ner Tamid (everlasting light) and the bimah (Platform where the scrolls are read). We were allowed to handle some precious artefacts and had the opportunity to take part in a…
As part of our work on Celebrations in RE lessons, we have been celebrating Spikey the dinosaur’s birthday. He was 6 years old. We planned a party for him and made some cards and decorations. We brought in some nice party food to share and celebrated in style with songs, party games and dancing. We…
Class 1 and 2 were delighted by a Science Assembly given by Andy from the national Marine Aquarium in Plymouth. They learnt lots of interesting facts about the sea including conservation, food chains and the different types of animals and plants found in the sea. Cildren took part in lots of fun experiments and became…