Unfortunately due to the current restrictions we held our Harvest celebrations at school. The Reverend Richard Allen visited each class individually to lead a Harvest celebration with the children Our theme this year for Harvest was Empathy with a direct focus on our community and nature. This year we supported the Foodbank set up at…
The children at Cockwood experienced a drumming masterclass this week from Allan Kerr at Shumba Arts! Each class spent a session at the village hall, learning how to play the African ‘djembe’ drum through call and response activities and lots of playing! Allan talked to the children about the origin of the African drum, how…
Class 3 performed their annual assembly this week, called ‘Under The Sea’. Children dressed up as sea animals and story characters for the show, and impressed the crowd with their confident speaking and super dance moves! It was wonderful to see the children perform in front of their peers and parents, and we are very…
Pupils in Year 6 helped local residents Nigel and Sally Stoneman to decorate the village recently with new flowers. The children chose the flowers and then planted them on the bridge near the village green. They will now water them for the remainder of the term and hope that all local residents will enjoy them.
The children were excited and amazed by the hands-on experiments of ‘Tectonic Tim’ from FizzPop Science today. He produced giant bubbles and soapsuds towers, before setting fire to the soapsuds; someone had to be very sensible and brave! He finally produced ‘elephant toothpaste’ to the wonder of the children, and explained the science behind it.
The children from the Choir were invited to sing at the official opening of the new harbour wall, as part of the latest work completed in the Harbour Defence Scheme. The event took place on the Village Green, where the children sang a special sea related song; ‘Drop in the Ocean’ and completed many fun…
Well done to our prize winners for super effort, attainment and attitude. Well done to Powderham House, who have won the house trophy this term with 720 housepoints.
Dear All As you may already be aware, the governing body of Cockwood Primary School applied to become an academy under the Academies Act 2010 and has now been issued with academy orders by the Secretary of State (agreeing to it becoming part of an academy) and is proposing to join the Teignmouth Learning Trust….
Thank you to all the parents who attended the Phonics Workshop. We hope you found it useful, and would love to receive any feedback from you about how we could make it even better! As promised, here is the sounds pronunciation video.
We were delighted to receive the letter below from Rt Hon Nick Gibb MP, Minister of State for School Standards.