Well done to the choir and Miss Buttree who performed at Exeter Cathderal at the Teacher Rock Youth Choir event. They sang in front of an audience of 500 people and delivered an excellent version of ‘Somewhere Only We Know’. It was wonderful to see them join in with choirs from across Devon and perform ‘Running…
Last week Class 3 had a special visitor, a dragon came to see them in the village hall! It was a very special ‘story-telling dragon’ and he invited the children to sit inside his story tent and share books and stories. The children spent the morning doing dragon-related activities to finish off their learning based…
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Children in Key Stage 2 have been thoroughly enjoying their Code Club sessions with Paula Taylor. Our Digital Leaders are being upskilled by Paula, using micro:bits and coding to learn about how these new technologies work. In the Spring term they will be using Raspberry Pis and python coding, and can’t wait to find out…
This term our Year 6 children and half of Year 5 are attending Forest School on Monday afternoons. This week the children learnt how to do Ancient Nordic weaving, they also had the chance to explore the site and be ‘present’ in the natural environment. After a safety briefing, they were able to use the…
At Cockwood we are very excited to have been selected to form a judging panel for the Royal Society’s Young People’s Book Prize 2022. The prize celebrates the very best science books for under-14s and aims to encourage young readers to satisfy their curiosity by immersing themselves in the wonderful world of science. A shortlisting panel…
Our Year 1 children have been working hard this half term, learning how to click and drag and make their own pictures. The focus today was to make a self portrait, using a variation of lines and techniques. The children worked hard to carefully control their mouse and make a super picture. After, we talked…
This week we were very lucky to be able to take a group of children to the wonderful Powderham Castle for a musical performance from the London Myriad Ensemble. The ensemble included musicians playing the flute, bassoon, clarinet and oboe. The children listened to a range of musical pieces, from The Pink Panther to Gershwin,…
Over half term we set a challenge for pupils to send in a photo of themself reading either somewhere ‘different’ or a photo with an ‘autumnal feel’. We had lots of super entries and we were delighted with the response. Reading is the most important thing you can do to help your child and we…
Each day in Class 3 we have a ‘Reader of the Day’, a child brings in a book they love from home to share with their friends. We have already had a wide variety of texts including fiction and non-fiction. This is proving to be very popular and something the children look forward to at…