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- 13/07/18
Castle gains Makaton Friendly School Award
I am very pleased to be able to tell you that The Castle School has achieved Makaton Freindly Status in recognition of all the amazing work our staff and pupils do around communication. We are extremely fortunate to have three qualified Regional Makaton Tutors at The Castle School. Holly Cannon-T...Read Full Story - 10/07/18
School Prom 2018
On Friday 6th July, The Castle School Post-16 was transformed into a glittering venue for the "Hollywood Prom 2018" Staff and students pulled out all the stops to decorate the Post-16 unit, and prepare delicious food for the event. It was a wonderful evening, with music, dancing and...Read Full Story - 09/07/18
Water load of fun!
Lancaster and Caernarfon class had a fun filled action packed end of year trip to Lagoona Aqua Park in Reading. Students and staff had a wonderful time trying to stay on the inflatable water course and make it all the way round. One of the most difficult activities was trying to get back on the equi...Read Full Story - 05/07/18
Castle School wins National Careers Award
The Castle School has been recognised for its work supporting careers education and helping young people into the world of work. The organisation has been named the National Winner of the SEND Careers Provision of the Year award by the Careers & Enterprise Company. The Careers & Enterpris...Read Full Story - 03/07/18
Brass and Cello performances
On Friday last week our school brass band performed outside to visitors and passing students. The band is made up of students from Key Stage 2 through to Post 16. All the students have had lessons with Sam from Berkshire Maestros, and they now show a real awareness for performing t...Read Full Story - 03/07/18
Building Healthy Environments
This term, Key Stage 3 are learning to build a healthy environment in their Citizenship lessons. Colchester Class looked at photos of different environments and gave their first impressions on the people who 'owned' the areas. After being shown a photo of a neglected plant pot, Colchester we...Read Full Story - 29/06/18
Sports Day Spectacular!
This week saw both the Primary and Secondary Sports mornings. Despite the sweltering heat, our students and staff got out there and did us proud, whilst proud parents watched on. After a session of tightly contested races on the track the teams took part in various field events, some with parents ta...Read Full Story - 27/06/18
Colchester's Stained Glass Windows
In RE this term, KS3 are learning about Humanism. Colchester have learnt that Humanists do not believe in God and they do not follow a set of rules to live their life by. Instead, they believe that all human beings are special and that human life is valuable. They believe that human beings...Read Full Story - 26/06/18
What is P4PC?
Once a term, at the Castle school, volunteers from every class in Primary, Secondary and Post-16 attend a "Pupils for Positive Change" (P4PC) meeting. Prior to these meetings each class is given a topic for discussion. As the school is rewriting their "Small Steps...Read Full Story - 22/06/18
Tag Rugby Champions!
Key Stage 3 pupils Joshua, Ethan, Ibrahim, Sean and Hakim played and won the Brookfields School tag rugby tournament this week. Each player worked really hard in attack and equally as good in defence. This was achieved without losing a single game with all boys scoring tries in the tournament...Read Full Story - 21/06/18
Castle Catering at Greenham Common
The wonderful Castle Catering and Hospitality Team will be serving fresh bacon and sausage butties from 8.30am until 11.30am this Saturday (23rd June) at the Greenham Common Tower. At 12pm the team will be serving afternoon teas and other goodies in the Tower Cafe. Come along and sample the amazing...Read Full Story - 15/06/18
Fabulous Fete Total!
Thanks to the amazingly generous folks who supported our wonderful fete last weekend, we can reveal that the grand total we raised from the day is an amazing £1600!! A huge thank you again to everyone. This really will go a long way towards helping in establishing our new sensory music gadren...Read Full Story