Cockwood School have been delighted to be involved in the Olympic banner project at Exeter Cathedral. The banners are to celebrate the Olympic torch arriving in Exeter this week. All the children in class 1 and 2 were involved in working alongside professional artists to create the banners and when they were all on…
As part of our commitment to high quality arts education we are always striving for ways to enagage with our pupils following a very cultural sculpture walk we wanted to psuh the boundaries and look at a totally different art-form…Urban Street Art- Graffitti.
Class 2 and class 3 spent a ‘wet” day following the Sculpture Trail around the grounds of the Streatham Campus of Exeter University. The rain didnt dampen our spirits and all the children enjoyed sketching and photogrpahing some of the fantastic sculptures on show.
Things are changing on the class 2 mezzanine…staff and parent volunteers have been working hard to create our new library. Over the next few weeks the library is being catalogued and made more ‘user-friendly’.
Class 2 and 3 are looking at ‘Sculpture’ in Art this term. Class 3 have been finding out about ‘What is a sculpture?’ and experimenting making sculptures with play dough, plasticine and junk modelling.
Children from class 3 have been busy helping to plant up hanging baskets to decorate the school grounds. A few budding Percy Throwers in the making!
The children had a brilliant time playing in Mrs Taylor’s garden. They enjoyed a super supper of hot dogs, strawberries and ice-cream and crisps. The children watched the sun go down over the estuary before walking up to the woods to look for bats.
Class 2 enjoyed their day walking around the grounds of Exeter University in the pouring rain! They also saw another art form…the wonderful painted ceiling in The Old Chapel. The children laid down in the aisle to appreciate the intricacy of the symmetry, when asked how the ceiling and the colours made them feel…
At Cockwood Primary, year 6’s have now been learning to cook scones and make the perfect cream tea in a bid to WOW judges in the competition to ‘cook for the Queen’.
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.