On Wednesday 4th of March six children from Cockwood School Council represented the School with their attendance at the annual Fair Trade Conference held at Westcliff Primary School. The focus this year was Fair Trade Bananas. The children were lucky enough to meet Simeon Green and Veronica Brown from St Vincent & the Grenadine Islands…
The School Council recently attended a Fairtrade Conference at the Eden Project. Their day started early as they travelled by train and bus to Cornwall. Upon arrival they met up with other schools from the south-west. They attended a tea-growers workshop, where they became part of the Fairtrade Premium Committee and had to decide how…
Fairtrade fortnight has started and today we were delighted to have Paul Tiony, a Fairtrade tea producer from Kenya, along with Sue Errington and Alison Derrick from Devon Development Education come in to school and talk to children about Fairtrade. Children from Cockwood and Westcliff Schools as well as students at Dawlish Community College heard all about the…
Cockwood School are celebrating achieving Fairtrade status. Over the past eighteen months the school council has put all their efforts into learning more about Fairtrade and what the whole school can do to help Fairtrade farmers and their families.
The children enjoyed an assembly taken by Chartwell Dutiro this week. He came to visit us and tell us about his forthcoming trip to our partner school in Zimbabwae. Chartwell collected items we had prepared ready for him to share with the children of Chireseri School.
Fifteen children and staff attended the opening of Chartwell’s academy. The children performed a song in traditional shona language about a lady riding on a white hyena. They sang absolutely beautifully and recieved a huge round of appluase for their perfect performance.
Denise Rowe has spent an afternoon with classes 1 and 2 this week teaching them a simple routine to an African drumming beat. The routine will be developed over the coming weeks and those children wishing to participate will be given the opportunity to showcase their dance at The Northcott Theatre at the 3D…