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- 01/05/18
Music Scholarship Opportunity
As with last year, we are pleased to announce that we are offering another chance for two pupils at our school to gain a music scholarship. The successful pupil will be funded to have tuition in an instrument or singing for a year. Please click below to read the letter sent out this week...Read Full Story - 30/04/18
Cooking with The Newbury & District Agricultural Society
Jan Murray from The Newbury & District Agricultural Society has visited Pembroke Class on four occasions this year. During her visits, the class have learned how to make; vegetable soup, apple crumble, marinated chicken and roasted vegetables, and most recently rhubarb muffins. Take a look at...Read Full Story - 26/04/18
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John Lewis Community Matters
Some time ago the Castle School had the opportunity to take part in the John Lewis Community Matters scheme. This is where local charities are featured on collection bins in the John Lewis store, and customers choose who they would like to support, by putting green tokens in the appropriate containe...Read Full Story - 23/04/18
Fit for a Queen
Our Hospitality and Catering Team were invited to cook with the professional Chefs in the Ascot Kitchen. After students made their individual Victoria sandwich cakes and Ascot scones, they were then treated to Mocktails and a delicious afternoon tea. Each student was awarded a Certificate of Achieve...Read Full Story - 23/04/18
Canapes and Champagne, No Problem!!
Castle Hospitality and Catering provided a post-wedding buffet reception for the daughter of Post-16’s governor, Ursula Codrington, at her home which took place in a marquee during the Easter holiday. From the photos you can see how hard student worked, especially Bradley with his plate specif...Read Full Story - 23/04/18
The Bean Challenge
Skipton have today planted a bean and we are all keeping a bean diary to watch how much it grows. We know that our beans need water (not too much!) and sunshine. Some people even sing to their plants, so we are going to try that too!!! We are going to post more photos on the website each week to sho...Read Full Story - 18/04/18
Rugby Coaching
5 of our Key Stage 4 and 5 students had an enjoyable day at the John Madjeski Academy today and are now Level 1 qualified tag rugby coaches, which is an amazing achievement. They learnt how to coach under 7's and under 8's and now look forward to the opportunity to test out their new...Read Full Story - 18/04/18
Castle School Fete - 1pm this Saturday
Being opened by Adam Brown, actor and comedian, best known for playing the dwarf Ori in Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy and Cremble in Pirates of the Caribbean. Our wonderful fete will take place at our Love Lane site from 1pm this Saturday, the 9th June. Please come along and brin...Read Full Story - 16/04/18
Welcome back
A warm welcome back to everyone for the start of the summer term! I am hopeful that we will have some better weather conditions from now on and that we will gert a bit more sunshine and warmer temperatures. Please check out our calendar to see what is happening this term. You can find it by click...Read Full Story - 29/03/18
Have a wonderful Easter
I hope everyone has a wonderful time over the Easter period. Today we had a lovely Easter celebration assembly organised by Amy Murray. The pupils made a wonderful video about the Easter Story. They made finger puppets to depict all the characters and created the video using various techniques. Enjo...Read Full Story - 29/03/18
This term's wonderful Art
All pupils have completed various projects all to do with our topic of "To Infinity and Beyond." Primary House explored different textures and materials to create moons, aliens, spaceships and even alien hats with googly eyes. They particularly liked exploring the playdough to create...Read Full Story - 29/03/18
Internet Safety Day @ The Castle
Today, the Castle School were involved in 4 separate Internet Safety workshops throughout the day. The day involved us going on a cyber adventure and imagining we were part of a game, where the leader Andrew was being controlled as a character in the game. We learnt about the importance of...Read Full Story