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- 21/03/22
Raising money for Ukraine
As part of their Ukraine fundraising project, Dover and Tiverton made bacon and veggie butties to sell to staff for £3. Students worked in groups and were responsible for completing certain jobs. Jobs included: cooking bacon and veggie sausages, buttering rolls, spreading sauces, wrapping and...Read Full Story - 18/03/22
Outdoor Fayre for Ukraine
Tiverton and Dover class have been learning about the Ukraine conflict presently happening. From these lessons Albie suggested we try and help by raising some money. Through project lessons, lead by the pupils ideas we created a cake sale and fun games at an outdoor fayre to happen over a lunchtime...Read Full Story - 18/03/22
Tiverton Short Story Competition
Tiverton class worked very hard on writing short stories last term, they learnt about everything that is needed to make a fabulous story and then they went about writing their own. They all did so well we entered the stories into a competition run by Laura Farris the local MP for West Berkshire. All...Read Full Story - 14/03/22
Coffee Morning for parents
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Talking with children about the war in Ukraine
Creative Education are running a webinar to help give advice on talking about the conflict with children. See the message and links below from Dr Pookey Knightsmith. We’d love to see you at our upcoming webinar: Title: Talking about War and Conflict with Your Child Date: Mon...Read Full Story - 07/03/22
Update on protocols
Dear Parents and Carers, Following a review of the school risk assessment, I am very pleased to announce that as of today we will be ending the use of zones within the school. The zones or bubbles have been in place for most of the past 2 years. However, it is now time to allow the school student...Read Full Story - 07/03/22
National Online Safety
Dear Parents & Carers, The online world is posing an ever-increasing risk to children, and it is important that schools, parents and carers work together to take an active role in teaching children about online dangers. Learning how to act safely when using the internet is an incredibly impor...Read Full Story - 01/03/22
Fostering in West Berkshire
If you are interested in finding more out about fostering, just download the attached flyer.Read Full Story - 27/02/22
Welcome back
Dear Parents and Carers, I hope you and your families are well and had a good half-term. As we return to school after the half-term break, I thought that I would send you the updated protocols for keeping everyone safe. You will have seen that the government have ended the legal duty to sel...Read Full Story - 17/02/22
Castle School Closed 18.2.22
After much consideration on all aspects relating to tomorrow's storm Eunice I have taken the decision to close the school for Friday 18th February 2022. I have made this decision as I do not believe it will be safe to open the school. As you will know, the safety of students and staff is always...Read Full Story - 07/02/22
Latest Covid Update 7.2.22
Dear Parents and Carers, I just wanted to write to you to give you an update of the Covid situation in The Castle as well as in the local area. In our school, we continue to have several cases each week. Most of the time, we are able to manage in terms of staffing. However, there have been a few...Read Full Story - 17/01/22
Covid-19 Protocols Update 17.1.22
As you will have seen in the news, there have been changes to the self-isolation rules in England. In mist circumstances, anyone who tests positive for Covid-19 will be able to leave self-isolation on the 6th Day if they have two negative LFD tests on day 5 and day 6. You can...Read Full Story