Emergency Winter Weather Arrangements

Thank you for your co-operation, patience and understanding during the disruption at the start of term because of the severe winter weather.

Please continue to check this site for up-dates regarding arrangements for school opening during severe weather. Should conditions unexpectedly deteriorate, the decision to close the school or restrict attendance will be made on the day and communicated through the usual channels (local radio, school web-site and News and Star web-site) as early as possible in the morning.   

Please note that as an absolute minimum the school will always be open for pupils and students with modular examinations which will go ahead as scheduled.  Examination candidates should therefore make every effort possible to attend for these sessions.  If candidates envisage a problem, they should contact the school Exams Officer, Lorna MacColl, as soon as possible.

Welcome...

Welcome to Caldew School’s web-site.  We hope that it will provide you with useful information whether you are a pupil, parent, member of staff, governor or simply a member of the public.

Caldew School is currently celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, having opened in September 1959.  It is a successful mixed comprehensive school of some 1000 pupils aged 11-18, serving the rural area to the south and west of Carlisle, as well as the southern suburbs of the city itself.  It takes its name from the river which flows along the eastern boundary of the school site and runs through its catchment area.

We are proud of our rural heritage and run one of the few agricultural units remaining in secondary schools in England.  We are also a specialist school for Business and Enterprise reflecting the commercial dimension of the rural economy which provides the setting for our work.  (Please read more in the Business Centre section of our web-site).

Mr A. Abernethy