Caedmon College is a mixed

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and

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located in

Whitby Whitby is a seaside town, port and civil parish in the Scarborough borough of North Yorkshire, England. Situated on the east coast of Yorkshire at the mouth of the River Esk, Whitby has a maritime, mineral and tourist heritage. Its East Cl ...

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, England. The school is named after

Cædmon Cædmon (; ''fl. c.'' 657 – 684) is the earliest English poet whose name is known. A Northumbrian cowherd who cared for the animals at the double monastery of Streonæshalch (now known as Whitby Abbey) during the abbacy of St. Hilda, he w ...

, the earliest English (

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n) poet whose name is known. Established in 1912 as the County School, Whitby, it was a mixed

grammar school A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically oriented secondary school ...

for pupils aged 11 to 18 until 1972 when it became comprehensive and was renamed Whitby School. At this time the school starting age decreased to 14. The school was renamed Whitby Community College in 1993 when the school started to offer

adult education Adult education, distinct from child education, is a practice in which adults engage in systematic and sustained self-educating activities in order to gain new forms of knowledge, skills, attitudes, or values. Merriam, Sharan B. & Brockett, Ral ...

classes. In September 2014 Whitby Community College merged with Caedmon School to form Caedmon College and increased its starting age to 11 once again. Today Caedmon College is a community school administered by North Yorkshire County Council. The emblem of the County School was Captain Cook's ship HMS ''Endeavour'', portrayed with the Whitby ammonites on the sail and a flag composed of the flag of England with the upper third having three white roses on a red background. Caedmon College offers GCSEs, BTECs and

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as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of

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s and further BTECs. In February 2019 the college agreed to federate with nearby Eskdale School creating the Whitby Secondary Partnership.

Publications

The school magazine of the County School, Whitby, was called ''The Viking''. It was published twice a year from 1914. The 50 year Jubilee edition was published in 1962.

Staff

Headmasters The first headmaster was Dr W. A. Bradley; on 29 July 1920 he and the senior mistress, Miss M. Jones were married. On the retirement of Dr Bradley in 1934 Mr H J Davis became the new Head and he retired in 1966. Headmistresses'' Miss J. S. Davidson 1912 - 1917, Miss W. Boyd 1917 - 1919, Miss C. A. Bateman 1919 - 1920, Mrs W. A. Bradley 1920 - 1923, Miss L. L. Ross 1924 - 1952, Miss B. M. Mills 1953 - ''The Viking''; no. 13 Christmas 1920. Whitby: County School; pp. 351-53

References

External links

Caedmon College official website
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