Welcome to Caedmon Community Primary School online

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.

You can get involved too, by clicking the comments link beneath many of our postings. We look forward to reading your comments, ideas and suggestions.

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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

May 13, 2009

Painting at Caedmon.

We are starting to paint one of the staircases in school. We have decided to have a theme based around all the years Caedmon has been open. We are painting something on the wall that represents something that happened in the north east in all the years the school has been here.

Here is a picture of one that has been started, The Angel of The North - 1998.

We have many ideas already for significant events that happened in the region or achievements of famous people from the local area. We are missing a few dates and need your help. If you do have any ideas for any of the missing dates please let us know by e-mail or coming into school with your idea.

The dates we have events for are as follows:

1994 - Caedmon School opens!
1995 -
1996 - Paul Gascoigne scores wonder goal in Euro 96 at Wembley against Scotland.
1997 -Tony Blair is appointed Prime Minister.
1998 - Angel of The North is finished.
1999 -
2000 - Millennium Bridge.
2001 -
2002 - Jonathan Edwards wins gold medal to hold all four golds in the major athletics events
2003 -
2004 - Sage is completed and opened.
2005 - Saltwell Towers at Saltwell Park re-opened.
2006 - Alan Shearer breaks Jackie Milburn's goal scoring recore for Newcastle United.
2007 -
2008 -
2009 - Newcastle United relegated?

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Categories: About Our School

Caedmon library to be re opened as a jungle!

Here is a picture of the Caedmon library. It is currently being developed by the children staff and parents. As you can see it is going to be a wonderful environment for the children to learn in.

Some of the children have suggested we call it, "The Book Jungle!"

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Categories: About Our School

May 12, 2009

100% Attendance - Fantastic!

Well done to the boys who were the lucky winners of tickets for the Newcastle v Middlesborough match on Monday 11th May. The boys names were drawn at random from a list of all children who have acheived 100% attendance so far this year.

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Categories: Awards at Caedmon

Healthy School.

Caedmon was awarded Healthy School status for the next three years.

In order to keep this award and continue to meet the standards we need to ensure that children are eating healthily in school. School dinners are monitored for this very closely by the School Food Trust. As a school we will be monitoring the packed lunches more closely in the coming term. We will be giving you guidance on what should not be brought into school in packed lunches.

You can look at the School Food Trust website www.schoolfoodtrust.org.uk

I would also like to recommend to the parents of children who do not have school dinners to let their children have a try. We have been working very hard with the school dinners service to provide the children with a variety of tasty options.

Here is a list of useful websites that you might want to have a look at as a guide:

www.schoolfoodtrust.org.uk
www.nutrition.org.uk
www.parentscentre.gov.uk
www.healthedtrust.com
www.bda.uk.com

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Categories: Information for Parents

Walk to School Week!

Next week, Monday 18th May through to Friday 22nd May is Walk to School Week!
Everyone can take part, children, parents and staff. This week children will take home a leaflet about the week that has ideas and activities.

At the end of the week children that have taken part during any part of the week will be given a certificate to keep showing they took part. There are obviously many benefits to walking to school around health and the environment. Many of our children already walk to school. This is encouraging even more to do the same.

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Categories: Community Cohesion

School building.

I am writing to let all parents know that the building work at the front of the school was expected to be finished by now. Unfortunately it will not be finished until June. The purpose of the work is to make the building accessable to everyone that could use Caedmon School.

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Categories: Head Teacher's News

April 1, 2009

February Newsletter

The February Newsletter is now on-line here.

February 2009.pdf

Posted by P Swanston
Categories: Newsletters

March 2, 2009

A great night watching Newcastle Eagles.

On Friday 27th February Caedmon School were guests of Newcastle Eagles at The Arena for their match against Guildford Heat.

Here are some of the children who were mascots for the match. Everyone had a fantastic night and met the players after the match to get autographs!

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Caedmon wins Gold and Gold and another Gold!

On Thursday 26th February a number of children from Caedmon School took part in the Gateshead 2009 Swimming Gala.

Caedmon won Gold in the boys' front crawl, boys' butterfly and the boys' relay. There was also a bronze for the boys' in another rely and an individual bronze for the breast stroke. Well done to the boys' and girls' in representing the school so well.

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February 24, 2009

Fabulous Flournoy visits Caedmon!

Today Fabulous Flournoy Newcastle Eagles coach and player visited Caedmon School. Fab led our assembly this morning. All of the children enjoyed watching his skills and joining in all the fun. Caedmon School have a partnership with Newcastle Eagles that is a year old now.
We will be attending the match between Newcastle Eagles and Guildford Heat this Friday 27th at the Arena. We have a few tickets left if you would like to come along come and see me or Mrs Swanston before Friday.

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