Local Schools Partnership

Partnership E-magazine

A group of students from Cottenham, Waterbeach and Willingham primaries have worked together with students from the Village College to produce an e-magazine. This is a new project which we hope will give students from the partnership schools a chance to work together on a range of topics which interest them. We hope that over the coming months we will be able to build on this and increase the magazine’s content, as well as encouraging more students to contribute in a variety of ways. Take a look via the link and see what you think!

Newsday 2009

On Thursday, Y6 students from Waterbeach and Willingham joined students from CVC to take part in a Newsday competition. The pupils worked in four teams with students from Y7 and Y8, each with a Y10 team leader, to produce a newspaper based on the actual news of the day.

With a deadline of 3 pm, everybody had to work really hard to complete their  newspaper, which needed to be not only well written and accurate in terms of content but also as professional as possible in terms of layout and design.

The day was hectic to say the least with a real sense of newsroom ‘buzz’ and, at times, it seemed an impossible task! However, by the end of the day, all four teams had indeed completed their newspaper to a very high standard.

The prize for the winning team will be a trip round the newsroom of the Cambridge Evening News – results to be announced shortly.

Cambridge Caller

The Explorer

Cottenham Gazette

Cottenham Chronicle

Year 2 Athletics Festival

On May 19th Cottenham Village College hosted a year 2 athletics festival. All year 2 students from Cottenham, Willingham, Waterbeach and Pendragon attended which made approximately 200 students in total. Year 10 sports leaders from the college ran a series of 8 events which all the students had a go at. This included javelin, shot, hurdles, long jump and running events.

There were some good performances in all events and students all enkoyed the morning.

Rounders Festival 2009

At Cottenham Village College approximately 100 year 3 students gathered for the annual rounders festival. There were students from Willingham, Waterbeach and Pendragon Primary schools. They all played 3 games in a round robin style tournament on 3 pitches. Each pitch therefore had a winner at the end of the day.

 Pitch 1 was won by Waterbeach B team, pitch 2 by Willingham D1 team and pitch 3 by Pendragon C2 team, which meant that each school won one of the tournaments which proved a good result.

All students had a great time and learnt a lot about how to play the game and what rules were involved.  Year 10 Sports leaders from the college organised and ran the event and did a great job!

DT Challenge Day

The DT Challenge Day was a great success!  The Yr6 students of Willingham, Waterbeach and Cottenham primary schools enjoyed a challenging and creating day extending their DT skills.