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- 27/03/18
Castle School World of Work Celebration
On Friday 9th March we held our annual “World of Work” celebration at the Castle School Post-16 unit. This is our opportunity to say thank you to all of the amazing organisations who support the World of Work programme by providing work experience or other ways for our students to intera...Read Full Story - 22/03/18
Skipton's Space Experiments
Skipton have been learning about meteorites and how they may produce craters. We did an experiment, making sure it was a fair test. We dropped objects from the same height through a cardboard tube and looked at the damaged caused. We predicted the heaviest object would cause the most damage. Jo taug...Read Full Story - 16/03/18
Science Week @ The Castle School
This week has been British Science week and the pupils at The Castle School have been getting involved with many different activities to engage them in Science. They have been working in different classes to their own with different teachers and have explored many topics. Some have investigated chem...Read Full Story - 12/03/18
Pastoral Team Easter Crafts fun
We had the wonderful Easter Craft Event today for parents. The event, run by The Castle School Pastoral Team went really well with lots of chat and laughter. Some parents are keen to try out some of the new recipes with their children at home as they felt it was something they would enjoy together...Read Full Story - 09/03/18
World Book Day
After having to postpone the event last week due to the weather we had an amazing and very successful World Book Day this week on Thursday. Students and staff dressed up in some wonderful outfits of their favourite book character. Some of the incredible creations are below. Of course, I would lik...Read Full Story - 09/03/18
Inspirational illustrators
During World Book Day (the rerun) Oxford Class explored the work of Nick Sharratt, who is an author and illustrator. He illustrates Jacqueline Wilson's books and has written his own books including Shark in the Park. Oxford Class created their own Sharratt inspired illustrations...Read Full Story - 09/03/18
Time Out for Special Needs course for parents
Parenting Special Children are running a seven week course for parent/carers of primary-aged children with Special Educational Needs who live in, or whose child attends a school in West Berkshire. Content: Helping self esteem Coping with feelings Understanding behaviour Mana...Read Full Story - 08/03/18
Oxford Class Baking Challenge
This week, as part of their ASDAN Foodwise lesson, Oxford Class tackled the tricky art of baking Jaffa cakes. They worked collaboratively to compete against each other in a 'Great British Bake Off' style competition. They were required to make a whisked sponge for the base of the Jaffa ca...Read Full Story - 05/03/18
World Book Day - the Re-run - 8th March
As we were closed, due to severe weather last week we were unable to have our wonderful World Book Day celebrations. As such, we have decided to have our 'World Book Day' this Thursday (8th March 2018). Pupils (and staff!) are invited to dress as a character from a book. There will be a priz...Read Full Story - 05/03/18
Skipton's Trip to Town
Skipton Class have enjoyed a trip to town to choose a book from Waterstones with our World Book Day Vouchers, followed by a visit to Marks and Spencer’s Cafe. We took our time to select our books and then Jo read us a story in Waterstones. At the café, we went up one by one to choose ou...Read Full Story - 27/02/18
Easter Crafts for parents
The Castle School Pastoral Team will be running this lovely event for any parent who wishes to come along and have some fun, chat to other parents and the Pastoral Team and have a bite to eat. Please call Jackie Hogg on 07824551857 to book a place.Read Full Story - 22/02/18
Fishy Fun at The Castle
Trout Watch! In December, Laura from The Renewal Project set up a large fish tank, complete with a chiller and air filter in the main site staffroom. On Tuesday 23rd January, rainbow trout eggs, from Bibury Fish Farm (Cirencester), were placed in a tank. The children enjoyed watching the eggs...Read Full Story