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We hope you find our new weblog site useful and interesting. We aim to make it a first port of call for information about our school.

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Mr C Wisby (Head Teacher)

We can confirm that our children have been rated by OFSTED as outstanding! In our inspection (July 08) under personal development and well-being our children were described as outstanding in the following areas:


How good is the overall personal development and well-being of the learners
OUTSTANDING

The extent of learners’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development
OUTSTANDING

The extent to which learners adopt healthy lifestyles
OUTSTANDING

The extent to which learners adopt safe practices
OUTSTANDING

How well do learners enjoy their education
OUTSTANDING

The behaviour of learners
OUTSTANDING

The extent to which learners make a positive contribution to the community
OUTSTANDING

We are delighted that our school was rated as good with outstanding features!
Full details of the report can be found by clicking on this link:
Caedmon Ofsted Report

March 2, 2010

Year 3 Literacy

Some of the Year 3 children have been working very hard with Mrs Clennell this year. They have been working together as a team to develop their literacy skills and help one another to achieve their literacy targets. Here you can see they have been learning about sharks. Keep up the hard work!

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Categories: Year 3

Paired Reading

Many thanks to all of the parents and carers who have given up their time to come into school to listen to our children read. This has been going on for well over a year now and has made a huge difference to so many children in our school.
In addition to this, we have been lucky enough to have sixth formers from Joseph Swan and Emmanuel College coming in every week to listen to our children read and play games with them. So thanks too to all of the students and staff who have helped make this such a success. All of the hard work has really paid off as the children are gaining confidence in their reading every week.
Any parents/grandparents/carers who would like to come in and spend a few hours a week listening to children read would be more than welcome (please ask in the office for a CRB form or come in and we can have a chat!).
Thanks again for all of your hard work, Mrs McVicar.

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Categories: Year 1 , Year 2

February 25, 2010

Reading Buddies

I would like to thank all of our KS2 children who have been helping the younger children to practise their reading skills by teaming up as 'Reading Buddies'. The children involved have had a lot of fun together and have forged some very good friendships. Also I have recently assessed the progress of the children who have been helped by a buddy this year and have found that each child has made fantastic progress. This has impacted on the confidence of both the younger children as well as the buddies. Thanks to you all from Mrs McVicar.

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No Limits Theatre Company

Throughout this academic year both Year 5 and 6 have been lucky enough to have had some fantastic drama workshops. These workshops have been taught by the 'No Limits' Theatre group which is based in Newcastle.
The Prince's Foundation for Children & the Arts' and 'No Limits' work together to provide access to the arts for over 23,000 children.
Founded in 1995, No Limits Theatre is committed to socially inclusive projects that enable young people, disabled people and community groups to be involved in innovative theatre projects. The children have gained so much from working with such an inspiring group of people and we hope to work with them again in the future

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Categories: Year 5 , Year 6

Family Learning trip to the Farm

Thank you to all the parents and children from Year 1 and Reception who came along to Bill Quay farm to join in our family learning workshops. The weather was awful but that did not dampen our spirits! The children got to take photos of all of the animals and talk to their parents about what they saw. I think you will agree that the morning was a huge success and most importantly the children all had a great time (even though some did not like the smell!!!!)
We look forward to seeing you again for the next workshops.
Thanks again, Mrs McVicar (the one who hounded you all to come along.

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Categories: Reception , Year 1

February 24, 2010

Family Man

Thank you to all the 'family men' who came into school to have fun with their child. All of the children had a really great time and got a lot from the experience. We hope you all had fun too. We look forward to seeing you in school again in the future.
Thanks again for your support.
Mrs McVicar

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Categories: Year 6

Night at Newcastle Eagles.

On Friday 12th March 2010 we are set to have our third night at The Eagles. We have tickets for the match between Newcastle Eagles and Milton Keynes Lions. The doors open at 6:00. The previous two years events have been very exciting and the children have all had a great night. We have tickets for sale now at the office priced at £5 each. There is also a raffle where you could win the following prizes:

4 courtside tickets,
2 mascot places.
signed posters by the team
Newcastle Eagles tee-shirt,
an autographed shirt.

Raffle tickets are 50p each.

Fabulous Flournoy (Newcastle Eagles star player and Head Coach) will be coming into school at the beginning of March to meet the children again and lead an assembly.

Clive Wisby (Head Teacher).

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Parents' Forum 2010

We are going to re-start Caedmon's Parents Forum. For those who do not know I will explain a little bit about how it works and the history of the group.

In 2008 we started the 'Parents Forum' as a way of giving the parents' of children at Caedmon School a voice. We used to meet every three weeks to discuss topics on an agenda and to work together to make the school even better.

This was a very successful group and many changes were made at school as a result of discussions with parents and their ideas were taken forward. This group became the Friends of Caedmon. Which is now a very successful group who organise many events for the children at Caedmon. You could say this was one of the most successful elements of the Parents' Forum.

However, we are looking to re-start the group and I will be inviting all parents to attend a meeting within the next week. You will be getting a letter about this in the next few days. If you would like to know more come and see me at school or come to the meeting on Thursday 4th March. In the letter I will ask you what is the best time: before school, during school or after school.

I look forward to this group re-starting and your help in constantly improving Caedmon School.

Clive Wisby (Head Teacher).

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Categories: Community Cohesion , Information for Parents

February 12, 2010

Year 6 Reading Games

Our Year 6 children have been working with Mrs McVicar to boost their literacy skills by playing lots of fun games. Many of our children have then passed on their skills to younger children in the school by becoming 'reading buddies'.

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Categories: Year 6

January 21, 2010

Gateshead Superdad 2010-Calling all dads, stepdads, grandads and male carers of children aged 7+

The Family Learning Team for Gateshead have asked us to let all parents/carers of children 7+ know that they are offering free workshops starting Saturday 13th Feb for 7 weeks on a Saturday morning.
It is open to all dads, stepdads, grandads and male carers of children aged 7+. During the weeks there will be lots of opportunities to have fun with your child at Whickham Thorns, Gateshead FC, Beamish, plus join in martial arts and gardening! The activities are suitable for complete beginners, so don't worry if you haven't done any exercise as a family for a while.
You can also win a Superdad Award.
Your child should have brought a leaflet home about this but if yo would like another or need more information please contact Family Learning, Dryden, NE95UR to book a place or ring 0191 4338678.

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