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The Cardinal Hume is made up of the following schools:

Cardinal Hume Catholic School
Mr N Hurn
0191 4877638

St Alban’s Catholic Primary School
Mrs D Fox
0191 4693251

St Anne’s Catholic Primary School
Miss K Leonard
0191 4334053

St Augustine’s Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School
Miss C Duffy
0191 4692949

St John the Baptist Roman Catholic Primary School
Mr K Rhodes
0191 4692969

St Joseph’s Catholic Infant School - Birtley
Mrs V Gibson
0191 4102324

St Joseph’s Catholic Junior School - Birtley
Mr D Slowey
0191 4102231

St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School – Gateshead
Mrs E Donnelly
0191 4901517

St Oswald’s Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School
Mrs C Wallace
0191 4878641

St Peter’s Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School
Mrs L Stokoe
0191 4878233

St Wilfrid’s Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School
Mr A Murray
0191 4771909

The Extended Services Co-ordinator for the Cardinal Hume Cluster is Louise Levy. Louisde is responsible for co-ordinating activities and services throughout each school in the Cardinal Hume Cluster to ensure that each element of the Extended Services Core Offer is being met within the Cluster. Louise can be contacted for any queries regarding Extended Services in the Cardinal Hume Cluster. Louise's contact details are:

Louise Levy
Cardinal Hume
Old Durham Road
Beacon Lough
Gateshead
NE9 6RZ
(0191) 487 7638
lly@cardinalhume.com

Ross Flint
Cardinal Hume
Old Durham Road
Beacon Lough
Gateshead
NE9 6RZ
(0191) 487 7638
rft@cardinalhume.com

East Gateshead Catholic Partnership are working together to provide additional opportunities to pupils, parents and local people to help them meet the needs of modern day living.

The partnership or "cluster" consists of 11 schools (1 Infant's, 9 Primary's and 1 secondary,) within which Headteachers and Extended services staff regularly meet to ensure positive, fulfilling activities can be made available across the whole partnership.

Whilst our work is ongoing to ensure we continually improve progress our range of activities further around our "core offering" we have made a variety of activities of available recently. For example, Karate, Cheerleading, skipping, Line Dancing, Basketball, Writing Clubs & Homework Clubs are amongst the many successes we have achieved.

A Family Learning English session in CHCS on 16th Hume, for our prospective new 7ys, achieved record breaking results! Over 110 people attended, representing 13 different schools which was absolutely fantastic! This was of great benefit to the parents and the children.
Our Y5 Cluster literacy project also attracted over 300 parents, families and community members to launch event on Thursday 25th June.

We are fully committed to offering First class provisions in all extended services and this will be a great framework to building lasting relationships between schools and their communities.

In order to be an integral part of all communities, it is crucial that every school can provide additional opportunities to pupils, parents and local people to help them meet the needs of modern day living.

By 2010 all schools will provide access to a range of activities and services outside of their usual curriculum, to do just that. This initiative is know as "Extended Services" The services to be provided are based around the following 5 provisions:

1. High Quality Wrap Around Childcare - Available all year round fro 8am to 6pm, which is provided either on the school premises, or through other local providers with supervised child transfer arrangements. A lifeline to many working parents!

2. Provide a varied menu of activities - This can either be delivered inhouse by Teaching Staff or external providers e.g. Dance, Drama, Sports clubs, Choir, Cheerleading, Cookery Classes, Music Tuition, Art Classes. We are always keen to enhance our provision and open to suggestions from our communities.

3. Parenting Support and Family Learning - It is a great ambition of ours to engage as many of our parents and community members in areas of learning with their children, which are both of keen interest to them and relevant. In many areas this can be a great framework to build lasting relationships.

4. Provide Swift And Easy Access - To the extensive range of specialist support services which are available to families, which is fundamental in ensuring assistance is received when most needed. Services exist which parents and the community may not be aware of, was it not for the involvement of the school.

5. Community access and ICT - Fantastic opportunities exist for all to access the specialist ICT and sports facilities available within schools, without being tied to the historical school timetable.

Within The Cardinal Hume Catholic School Cluster, we are fully committed to providing first class provisions in each of the above areas.

The school band meets on Wednesdays after school and the choir meets on Thursdays also after school. Beginners’ ensembles meet during lunchtimes. All pupils who play an instrument at their junior school are guaranteed an instrument and lessons when they come up to Cardinal Hume. Rehearsals continue throughout the year building towards a number of annual events and performances e.g. the Advent Service at St Oswald’s church.

There are a whole host of other clubs and activities based in and around a variety of subject or extra curricular areas available for all students. The types of clubs that are available and have been provided have included Chess, Textiles, Maths, Computing, Graphics, Poetry, Book and Readathons, Aerobics and Swimming just to name a few.

Y6 have had a fantastic time in the capital city. Read the diary entries from some of the students below:

Thursday 2 July
We all arrived safely and with no time to spare set off for the Science museum. It was really interesting and we can't wait to tell you all about it when we get back! After the museum we refuelled at the Rainforest cafe...mmm! Then it was off to see 'Hairspray the musical' before returning to the hostel for a good nights sleep.

Friday 3 July
Good morning Gateshead!
After a good breakfast we are heading off to the National Gallery. It will be fantastic to see 'The fighting Temeraire' in all its glory! Then we are off to Westminster before returning to the hostel for a meal and another good sleep...this sightseeing business is tiring! We are having a brilliant trip and can't wait to see everyone tomorrow!

Wow !!!! London was Brilliant !!!! I really enjoyed Hairspray, The London Eye and the Houses Of Parliament ! The weekend passed so fast, I cant believe it was over when we arrived home. We had to leave our bags there, so we wouldnt miss the train, but luckily I had my valuables in my yellow bag (Which made it quite heavy). London was so big, I was terrified someone would get lost. Sorry, im sounding like my mum. gtg now, Bye!!!!

Comment by a pupil attending the trip

On Wednesday afternoon I went to a tag-rugby tournament at Gateshead Rugby Club.
I was very excited because I thought that I would have been on the good team .
In our first game we tried our best. In our second match we did okay. In our 3rd match we won. Then we won all of the time and we never lost except the one at the end. We would have won 3 games but the other team came back in the last minutes so it was 2-2. We should have scored a try in the last game as well because I passed the ball but they dropped the ball right at the end of the game.

THIS IS FROM BOBBY

Every class at St Peter's has visited the Shipley Art Gallery to continue to promote the 'Arts' within school. The children have learnt about pattern, chairs, clay modelling and looked at the art works in the Gallery itself. The children all enjoyed their visits and learnt a lot!

Year 5 Eco-Warriors have started planting in the Spiritual Garden. We have planted peas, onions and potatoes and, hopefully, we will be harvesting a bumper crop later this year!

Congratulations to the French club for hosting a brilliant French Breakfast morning! The event was enjoyed by everyone and over 70 chocolate croissants were sold as well as other delicious foods such as toast, cheese and crackers and baguettes. Everyone who attended the event commented on the excellent French spoken by our Year Five French club and the French club themselves were very impressed by how many children tried to order their breakfast in French! The morning was a huge success and we hope to follow it up with another morning for the whole school to enjoy! Once again a big thankyou to everyone who attended and supported the morning. We hope you all enjoyed yourselves. Check out the pictures from the morning.

Year 5 at St Peter's were treated to a poetry workshop at Cardinal Hume Catholic School.

Led by the well-known children's poet, Christine Michaels, it gave the children the opportunity to explore the joys of different types of poetry. Following on from this workshop, the children are now working hard to create their own individual poems, as well as a joint effort poem by the whole class. Once the class poem is perfected, it will be performed at CHCS on June 25th in front of other schools from the cluster and parents.

We know we can rely on our Year 5 children to give it their best shot!

Year 2 Class from St Peter's accompanied by Miss Heal, Mrs Crawley, Mrs Daly, Mrs Hearne, Miss Gray and Jonathan Burn all travelled to Whitehouse farm in Northumberland. They had an excellent day and saw lots of lovely animals, they fed them, petted them and even held some of them! The weather was great and everyone enjoyed themselves!

St Peter's were visited today by Maureen from the People's Kitchen. She told then all about how it was set up in the first place and what they did to help people in the area. She was delighted with the 150 eggs ! children brought in to give to all her clients. She asked if they could collect some other things to help the clients next term such as sleeping bags, blankets, wooly hats and outdoor clothing for men, shoes and socks and jeans. St Peter's are going to speak to the School Council and see what they would like to do to help this worthwhile charity!

Mrs McArthur and the eco warriors visited Mrs Heslop's allotment at Whinney Park. Mrs Heslop showed children around her allotment and explained to them all the different types of vegetables and plants that she grows. All children managed to do a bit of digging and planting of their own!

St Peter's Eco Warriors will be visiting regularly over the summer months as they all know how beneficial growing our own produce is. Not only does it taste much better but it reduces our carbon footprint and growing our own is great fun at the same time!

St Peter's would like to thank Mrs Heslop for giving us this opportunity.

Year 6 have completed their swimming programme at Felling pool with everyone achieving their targets. All the class enjoyed the sessions and all feel they have improved their swimming skills. Well done !!

Year 5 have just started this summer term and this will continue when they move up to Year 6 in September.

Year 5 were lucky to be able to take part in a Mandarin Workshop, led by 4 Chinese students from Durham University. We crammed so much into the session, learning:

Lots of interesting facts about China
Some conversational Chinese phrases
Chinese songs and games
How to count to 10 in Chinese
Some T'ai Chi moves.
One of the students treated us to a recital on the flute of some Chinese music. T

hanks again to the students for giving us this wonderful opportunity to discover and experience their culture

The Cardinal Hume Cluster wants to know what YOU THINK, whether it be what services or activities you would like to see taking place in the cluster, comments on the Cardinal Hume Cluster Web page or any comments in general about the Cardinal Hume Cluster PLEASE TELL US!!!!!!!!
All you have to do to feedback what you want is to go to the homepage and post your comments by leaving your leave your age, school that you attend and area that you live in and of course WHAT YOU THINK!!!!