Lunch clubs are a big part of life here at The Castle School. This term we have been lucky enough to have huge range of clubs including; relaxation, puzzle and board games, meteorology, Lego, Marvel, Boccia and football (to name just a few)! There are at least three lunch clubs r...

Over the last two years our younger pupils have been working with Newbury Community Resources Centre in the Shaw woodland. Classes in our lower primary take turns to spend one morning a week for a term going to the woodland to explore and learn new skills. This has proved to be a wonderful reso...

This week we had the wonders of space brought to life at The Castle. A huge inflatable planetarium dome was put up in the secondary hall and our pupils had sessions throughout the day experiencing amazing space-related activities. Here is some of the feedback that was collected by Alfie, one of our...

Colchester have been starting to learn about the different planets in our solar system. Today, we created two scale models to help us to understand the size of the planets and how far away from each other they are. First (above), we made scale models of the planets in our solar system using Play...

A very Happy New Year to everyone. Welcome back to term 3. from now until Easter we will be looking at all things space-related. Our theme is "To Infinity and Beyond". We are all looking forward to the exciting adventures in learning that will take place.