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- 12/06/26
Celebrating Success at the Agricultural Challenge
Both Windsor and Dover classes have enjoyed an exceptional year of learning, creativity and teamwork through their involvement in the Agricultural Challenge, culminating in outstanding achievements at this year’s final. Windsor class have worked incredibly hard throughout the year, developi...Read Full Story - 12/06/26
Duke of Edinburgh final prep
Duke of Edinburgh Group in their final stages of preparation! This year's Bronze Award Duke of Edinburgh group are now in the final stages of planning before their expedition! The expedition route will take the group walking alongside the canal. When walking alongside a canal, a throw rope...Read Full Story - 10/06/26
Arts Society Generous Donation
We were delighted to welcome representatives from The Arts Society Newbury to The Castle School recently, following their generous donation of £1,000 to Friends of Castle. The Arts Society is part of a global network with over 64,000 members, and we were pleased to host Stephen Howes (Chair...Read Full Story - 05/06/26
Castle Fest 2026 on 20th June
With only 14 days to go until Castle Fest, Friends of Castle are excited to share the fantastic prizes you could win as part of the raffle. Local organisations have kindly donated vouchers, gift tokens, experience days plus much more... Tickets should have all been sent home, but if you h...Read Full Story - 19/05/26
Happy half term
Dear Parents and Carers, As we get close to the end of the school term, I want to wish all our students, staff and parents a fantastic holiday. As usual, each class has produced a Class Newsletter with lots of lovely information on what they have been doing as well as some pictures o...Read Full Story - 16/05/26
A letter to Mr Horowitz
This term Oxford Class' English learning has focused on Anthony Horowitz as they have really enjoyed his Alex Rider series as their class novel. Oxford Class wrote questions for Anthony, which Liz took with her when she went to listen to him as part of his recent book tour. Oxford have...Read Full Story - 13/04/26
Welcome Back
Welcome back to all our students and staff this week, for the start of the first part of the summer term. The last day of term will be Friday 22nd May 2026Read Full Story - 27/03/26
Wishing everyone a happy Easter
Dear Parents and Carers, As we reach the end of the school term, I want to wish all our students, staff and parents a fantastic holiday. As usual, each class has produced a Class Newsletter with lots of lovely information on what they have been doing as well as some pictures of learn...Read Full Story - 16/03/26
Parent Carer Forum Meet-up
Please find attached details of the upcoming West Berkshire SEND Parent Carer Forum online meet-up which will take place on Wednesday 25th March 7:00–9:00pm. This session will focus on reflecting on what parent/carers across West Berkshire have been sharing with the Parent Carer Forum about...Read Full Story - 10/03/26
World Book Day visit
To celebrate World Book Day, we were lucky enough to have a visit from Ian Brown, author of Albert the Tortoise books. He visited Post 16 and Love Lane and talked to the students about how he became an author and where he gets his ideas from for his books. He also told us about his work...Read Full Story - 09/03/26
World Book Day
To celebrate World Book Day, Durham Class created their very own read-aloud story videos. Each student chose a book they enjoy and practised reading it aloud. Once they were ready, we recorded each student reading their story. The students then chose a background that matched their book, helping...Read Full Story - 03/03/26
Fink Street Fun
We were very lucky to have Fink Street visit us again at Post 16. The students made pizzas and loaded potato skins and mini cheesecakes for desserts – all in less than an hour! Thank you again to the Fink Street team for such a wonderful experience!Read Full Story