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Cademuir International School
Cademuir seeks to develop the strengths present in all children and young adults, while supporting them in areas where they display less confidence.[1]
Location
Thornhill, Dumfriesshire, Scotland (UK) See on Google Maps
Information
Locale	English; international students
Head master	Robert Mulvey
closed	22nd of June
Students	None[2]
Type	Boarding school
Grades	P7-S6[1]
School Colour(s)	Uniform; Black trousers, blue sweater
Established	1990
Annual Fees	£23,400[1]
Student-Teacher-Ratio
Homepage	Cademuir International School website

Cademuir International School was a specialist school located in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

The school, founded by Robert Mulvey in 1990, was created to serve students who are high ability learners and underachievers with high potential.^[3]

Latterly based at Crawfordton House, Moniaive, a listed building, it previously operated from near Peebles.

In 2002, the school was ranked second of 418 schools in Scotland for Higher Grade results.^[4]

In 2004, an HMI report criticised the school, "particularly in the care and welfare areas of child protection, vetting of staff and restraint".^[5] A followup inspection criticised a "lack of stable and effective strategic leadership" on 13 September 2005.^[6]

In September 2006 the school finally went of out business due to financial difficulties. Its roll had dropped from 100 pupils to only 34 at the time of its closure.^[7]

Contents 1 Foundation 1.1 Development 1.2 Economy issues 2 The Buildings 2.1 Dormitory 2.2 Computer room 2.3 Lacks in security and repairs 3 School life 3.1 Teachers 3.2 Educated Subjects 3.3 How school life changed recently 4 Advantages and testimonals 5 Disadvantages and complains 6 References 7 External links 8 Edit notes 8.1 History 9 Scrap 9.1 School homepage 9.2 Hoax or not?

[edit] Foundation

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[edit] Development

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[edit] Economy issues

• Cademuir is a very promotional school. Because of no direct advertising efforts, it was nearly unknown apart from the word of mouth, that put a tiny advertise into a German local newspaper like "the secret best school for talented children"^{[citation needed]}
• We know from research that Mr Mulvey often went to france to attract more students (also the location of an european school congress helping him under the condition that he pays a revenue.
• Most of the time Mr Mulvey was not in Scotland but flying around the world for economy issues. Nevertheless he had offered classes in English and French during the last years.
• The Cademuir International School had organized annual Summer Schools for £550 a week lasting 1-3 weeks. They targeted primarilly for English language education and to show the young children Scotland's beauty. Inhabitants of Scotland may already have seen one of the two Cademuir busses driving around during the summer vacation.

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[edit] The Buildings

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[edit] Dormitory

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[edit] Computer room

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[edit] Lacks in security and repairs

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[edit] School life

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[edit] Teachers

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[edit] Educated Subjects

Mathematics, Science & Technology

• Biology
• Chemistry
• Mathematics
• Physics
• Computing (IT)

Social Subjects

• Modern Studies
• Geography
• PSE
• Religious Studies
• History
• Psychology

Modern Languages

• English
• German
• French
• Spanish
• Latin
• EFL

Expressive Art

• Art & Design
• Drama
• Music**
• Physical Education

Some subjects required additional fees by students.

With 30 teachers and classes with 4-7 students per course, everyone was able to craft his own timetable with several highers and adv highers. Classes lasted 45 minutes, up to 8 hours a day starting at 9:30 am. Before any day really starts there was breakfast followed by the daily assembly. Most courses were teaching SQA-related; we may google from the excercises on the assesments and this is awesome on SQA: You buy a book and learn with it, pass the assessments that come directly from Edinbourgh, and you pass the Higher grade. Inside these very small groups of students, students were learning very fast, being able to pass the whole first unit after several weeks.

[edit] How school life changed recently

Unfortunately the teachers of high-skilled labour were not always available, especially during the last year where no more PSE, Biology, French and EFL could be taught because more and more teachers have left school.lazer you are wrong>> EFl,Biology was thaught by cademuir teachers until the school closed!!!!!!!!!

ok... I use this as a discussion page. My education keeps me busy and this is subject to change at any time. Actually I didn't want to include this as-it-is into the article. But thanks for the information, I am collecting more and more. Please, if you want to help, collect more sources to confirm facts (or disapprove mist-cakes)! If I have more time, I will self-cite from some publications I made in the past. Back to topic: I've heard from an email, that EFL became an "extra" service requiring additional fees?--Lazer erazer 19:01, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Advantages and testimonals

• Although the accomodation and food at cademuir school is not the best ever imaginable, the modified scottish educational system the school can provide the best education ever. From the outside and the pictures on the site the school might not look like much but it was a very recoommendable place to get education for any under achiever and able learner.
• At Cademuir International School attention was paid to the problems of every single individual. Especially the learning support department of the school was a very promising way with which the school tries to help especially dyslexic children and anyone with other learning disabilities. In any other class the teachers tried to spend the maximum time at their availability with children to get the syllabus through and make the children understand as much as possible. The children could work at their own speed and just asked if they have a problem and they were helped fully and if necessary retaught at length.
• Cademuir International School was recommended for a long time to anyone having problems at normal schools all throughout the world as the school could provide just the right ways to solve these problems and get the children ready for a normal life in todays modern society.[2]

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[edit] Disadvantages and complains

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[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Token from the school website[1]
2. ^ lazerserver.la.ohost.de/nmp.php?id=214d7dcc553cde6a7ece2c5866bcec10
3. ^ You and Yours interview
4. ^ BBC league table
5. ^ HMI report
6. ^ HMI followup report
7. ^ McLaughlin, Martyn. "£23,400 per year school closes", The Herald, 2006-09-15. Retrieved on 2006-09-26. 

[edit] External links

• The School website
• Cademuir International School website

So the outline is finished. I'll fill it in then!

[edit] Edit notes

Personal quotes/references: [3]

What to mention:

1. "closed 22nd of June" references: [4], more to come
2. ...

[edit] History

TODO:

1. cited from myself as written in a forum, add permalink or rewrite with reference (see below)
2. it is now closed. change the plot of the text to work with this fact (e.g. "Today")
3. history continues. add things that happened (yes I am kinda dislocated)

[edit] Scrap

[edit] School homepage

Up to 2004, Cademuir never had an official website at all. Yet the only websites were from organisations like the Förderverein Cademuir International School eV (this one existed until spring 2005) or inofficial websites made by students. In Summer 2004, just after Mark Downing (ex IT teacher) left school and Linda Harris (ex IT teacher) came, the homepage http://www.cademuirinternationalschool.org.uk/ was created and has never recieved any updates. Look at the hopelessly outdated staff members.

[edit] Hoax or not?

Cademuir International School IS a school and IS closed. This information has been confirmed to me (????) by many of the remaining students personally or by homepages, sites, scottish government lists, newspapers, phones, the head master by phone to my dad (when asking about the school) and many more. Not to forget Rolf Buvert from Thornhill Police!

This shall never be considered a hoax. If in doubt, use the discussion page.