Upcoming School events
EYFS and KS1 Nativity Performance for Parents and Carers
EYFS and KS1 Nativity Performance for Parents and Carers
KS2 Carol Service at the Church
KS2 Carol Service at the Church
Project Conquer
an you conquer Cogenhoe?
In the 2019-2020 academic year, teachers, parents, Governors and pupils at Cogenhoe Primary all worked together to design and develop 100 non-academic skills, attributes and activities that all pupils will achieve by the time they leave in Year 6. Each year group will have 15 steps to achieve and these will be interwoven and celebrated alongside our whole school curriculum.
We understand that our pupils sometimes lack confidence, resilience and the understanding of certain skills which really will help to prepare them for the wider world. Our steps in each year group will help and give children the opportunity to work independently and in partnership with their parents and teachers to become well-rounded, informed and confident citizens, ready to contribute positively to the world around them.
Some of the steps are purely and simply just for fun! They are things that we are all guilty of taking for granted at times and we must still place importance on them and acknowledge them in this world and in our lives.
All of our pupils will be able to clearly demonstrate each step at least three times before a skill can be completed. All pupils will be presented with a special book which they will use to record all of their notes, pictures, photos, drawings and comments in.
Please see our steps below:
Pre-School
- Put on my own coat
- Help to make a snack
- Climb or balance at the park
- Play a throw and catch game with a friend
- Help to tidy up
- Play hide and seek with a group of friends
- Splash in a puddle
- Use cutlery appropriately
- Say please and thank you at the right time
- Take turns in a game and share
Reception
- Cut up own food using a knife and fork
- Tidy my things away when I have finished with them
- Collect something (conkers, leaves, stamps, magazines etc)
- Get changed by themselves and do up buttons
- Zip up your coat
- Fold your clothes in a neat pile
- Put your shoes on the right feet
- Go to the toilet by myself, flush and wash my hands properly
- Grow something from a seed
- Pay for something in a shop using money
- Do something that scares you (crawl through a tunnel)
- Sing or say at least 3 of nursery rhymes
- Build a den
- Clear my own things away from the table after a meal
- Talk to adults using full sentences
Year 1
- Make my bed
- Have a technology free day
- Know and write my own address and full name
- Visit a farm and feed an animal
- Apply sun cream when needed
- Sing and dance in the rain
- Make a sandwich
- Play eye spy
- Brush and style own hair
- Have a night away from home with family or friends
- Say hello in three languages
- Go star gazing
- Blow my nose with a tissue and put it in the bin
- Hold the door open for somebody
- Try a new food
Year 2
- Tie my shoe laces
- Ride a bike without stabilisers
- Use scissors
- Make a hot drink with an adult
- Climb a tree (with adult supervision)
- Make a phone call
- Write a shopping list and buy some items
- Plan and have a picnic
- Walk or run a mile
- Cross the road safely
- Help with the washing up/dishwasher
- Share a traditional board game with a friend or adult
- Visit and take a book out of your local library
- Become an Eco Warrior at home and at school (turning lights off when you leave a room, turning the water tap off when you are brushing your teeth etc)
- Visit a museum
Year 3
- Swim a length confidently
- Know how to and what happens if you dial 999
- Lay the table for a meal
- Make my own packed lunch or one for somebody else
- Get muddy and jump in puddles
- Watch a sun set
- Tell someone the way to school or to a local shop
- Go outside and find 5 different trees and name them
- Design and make a game for you and your friends to play
- Skip with a rope
- Play a card game with family
- Make a home for some wildlife
- Help with the recycling
- Get your own bag ready for school or an event
- Change my own bed covers
Year 4
- Grow something that you can eat
- Make something following a recipe
- Help with the laundry (pegging washing out, or hanging on airer or putting away)
- Go on public transport (train or bus)
- Wrap a present
- Learn and know my parents’ mobile number
- Tie 3 different knots
- Play pooh sticks
- Support a charity and raise at least £30
- Help with the housework (vacuum, mopping, dusting)
- Have a water fight
- Fly a kite
- Polish a pair of shoes
- Have an adult read me a whole story
- Order my own food at a restaurant
Year 5
- Roll down a hill
- Use a tin opener
- Set my own alarm clock each day
- Recite a poem off by heart
- Have a tug of war
- Have a walk around a country park
- Find and enter a competition
- Read a magazine
- Plan something an assembly or something to share in an assembly
- Help in the school office for a lunch time
- Water plants
- Sew a button on
- Bake a cake
- Wash and dry my own hair
- Help an older relative/person with a task
Year 6
- Cook a simple lunch
- Have responsibility for my own hygiene
- Ride a bike safely on the road
- Organise my own equipment for the day (pack my own bag)
- Take a walk in the woods (with an adult)
- Write and post a letter
- Write and send an e-mail
- Plan and cook a meal for the family
- Find out about your family history
- Go camping or spend the night in a tent
- Go a whole week without technology
- Read a timetable
- Use the washing machine and help sort the washing
- Use the iron and iron my uniform
- Build your own assault course and complete – can you beat your score