Children in Class 3 have enjoyed learning about things that grow when they visited Cliff’s garden (governor). Cliff is our resident expert and the children had a super time exploring the garden in order to enhance their science topic.
Well done to our maths team who spent a day competing against other schools in a UK Maths Challenge at The Maynard School. A super 4th place was achieved and the children had a brilliant time.
Well done to Cofton House for winning the interhouse challenge for this term. The children had to hunt for eggs and match up the different pieces, answer questions in an Easter quiz and complete an art competition. All points won go towards the house total. All of the children displayed super teamwork skills and it was a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon. Well…
Pupils came together to learn about the solar eclipse. They watched a live feed on the big screen and refreshed their understanding of the Earth, Sun and Moon. As the action was happening, we were sending tweets to the Stargazer twitter page. Very exciting!
Pupils enjoyed a super day dressed as their favourite book characters. Activities on this special day included international blogging, shared reading and making movie trailers of famous stories using i-pads. A great day was had by everyone. A super well done to the winners of the best costumes, who all took home a book as…
On Friday 28th November the School Council held their third Fairtrade Cafe of the year.
We have been focussing on poetry over the last year and wanted to give the children an opportunity to share their wonderful ideas with visitors to the school. Our new tree stands at the entrance to the school and was commissioned by Suzanne Green, an artist from Northamptonshire. The tree will change as the seasons…
After the storms and renovation of the railway at Dawlish, a number of businesses were kind enough to support local charities and Cockwood Primary School PFA was one such charity. The children were lucky enough to meet some of the representatives from Bamm and Ist solutions on Friday, when they came to a special assembly…
This week Digital leaders from both class 1 and 2 attended a training workshop at the Apple Store in Exeter’s Princesshay development. They spent the morning exploring the app ‘Garageband’ and finding out how they could bring this knowledge back into school to share with their peers. They were challenged to make an original ‘rock’…
Class 1 have been learning about the Tudor period this term. The children enjoyed a visit to St Nicholas Priory in Exeter where they had a chance to step back in time and experience life in Exeter during this period of history. Everyone got the chance to work in the kitchen, play shovel-board and dress-up…