Dawlish Learning Partnership schools visited the new Sainsbury’s store in Dawlish today to show their support for this years Poppy appeal. Staff and children from Cockwood Primary School, Gatehouse Primary School and Oaklands Park School were warmly welcomed by Members of the Royal British Legion.
On Friday 21st September, all of the children at Cockwood primary School took part in an ‘It’s a Knockout’ style sports afternoon. They competed in their House Teams through 4 events.
We have produced a really helpful guide for parents to help your children this term. You can see one for each class on the Classes link. You can also download the guidance for each class from these links.
Children at Cockwood Primary School have once again started our new school year with a Harvest celebration at Cofton Church. Our theme this year was making new words from the letters of HARVEST.
Checkout our latest newsletter for information on this terms events. Details of clubs, secondary transfer, PFA events and fundraising. Keep up to date with events at Cockwood. Newsletter 25.10.12
Back in April children at Cockwood were busy designing a menu fit for a Queen. They were helped with a cooking masterclass by the Head Chef at The Anchor, Cockwood, Andy. He demonstrated how to cook River Exe mussels and allowed the children to cook in a professional kitchen. You can see the original post…
Class 1 were extremely lucky to meet some very unexpected people on their recent trip to the SS Great Britain…. Dick and Dom from CBBC were on board filming a new television series! As you can imagine it created much excitement. The boys were very obliging and came and talked to the children.
As part of our topic this term on Victorians the children have been finding out about Ismabard Kingdon Brunel. The children had a fantastic day dressing up as Victorians and role-playing the launch of the ship. All the children were given roles including Lords, Ladies, Engineers and Navvies.
Class 1 have been making parachutes, their brief was to make a parachute that would take the longest time to reach the ground. The children worked in small groups to plan their design and think about the factors that would affect its performance. We then tested each parachute three times and timed the flights.
SUMMER STAFF AND YEAR 6 PRODUCTION The Wizard of Oz At the end of a very busy term everyone at Cockwood School was very sad to say goodbye to our year 6 children. We ended their time at the school in true Cockwood fashion with a superb concert involving the staff and all of year…