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- 23/09/24
The Half Day Hustle
This weekend saw several intrepid runners from The Castle School and HI-5 Runners take on the elements and run a 2.7mile route on our school track at Love Lane and the surrounding area. The challenge was to cover the route as many times as possible between 7am and 7pm. In total, our staff t...Read Full Story - 17/09/24
Pastoral Coffee Morning 14.10.24
Castle Pastoral team are holding a coffee morning. On Monday, 14th October From Drop off, around 9:15 to 11:30 Where - Castle Gate building Cake decorating is the theme! Sponges will already be baked – please just bring your creativity! Tea/Coffee/Chat all free – a...Read Full Story - 04/09/24
Welcome Back
Dear Parents and Carers, The staff team at The Castle School are so pleased to be welcoming back all of our students this September as well as welcoming all the new students to our Castle School family. We look forward to a successful and fun year of learning ahead. As you will alre...Read Full Story - 24/07/24
Wishing everyone a fabulous Summer
Dear Parents and Carers, As always, each class has produced a Class Newsletter with lots of lovely information on what they have been doing as well as some pictures of learning. You can read the newsletters by clicking the link below: The Castle School - Class Newsletters (thecastles...Read Full Story - 24/07/24
Handa's Surprise Exibition
This term, pupils in KS 3 and 4 have been exploring the story of Handa’s Surprise by Eileen Browne. Within art lessons, students have been making sculptures of the fruit using paper mache and acrylic paint. An exhibition of the work will be held at Newbury Library where families will have the...Read Full Story - 22/07/24
Duke of Edinburgh Adventures
This year, a number of Year 13 and 14 students at Post-16 have been working towards their Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award. This week, Amy M, Neah, Sam, James and Lucy completed the expedition section of their award. The 5 students navigated and walked over 10km on Tuesday from Post-16 to Lov...Read Full Story - 22/07/24
Castle Prom 2024
On 11th July we had our Castle School Prom 24. The event was wonderful with a Hawaiian-themed twist. Everyone had an amazing time as you can see from the photosRead Full Story - 18/07/24
Castle @ The Bandstand
A wide variety of musical and dramatic performances were showcased to the public at our annual bandstand concert in Victoria Park last week. Bands performed numbers from The Beatles and AC/DC, along with choruses of Queen and traditional songs. The event also featured masked comedic performances and...Read Full Story - 17/07/24
Youlbury part 3!
On Monday1st July Secondary 1 students attended their 3rd Outdoor Adventurous Day at Youlbury. Enjoying either abseiling, archery or crate stacking. All the students had an amazing day, staff commented on how much more confident the students were on this visit. It was so wonderful to...Read Full Story - 16/07/24
Paulton's Park
On Tuesday 9th July we had a school trip to Paulton's Park. The day was a little wet, but this never dampened our spirits and anyway most of us got absolutely drenched on the Lagoon ride! All the students had a fabulous time, it was wonderful to see some many smiling faces. It was so lovely...Read Full Story - 12/07/24
Summer Reading Challenge
On Monday 8th July, Chenoa Leaver from Newbury Library came to visit our school to talk to the children about the Library’s Summer Reading Challenge. West Berkshire Libraries will be challenging children to read up to six library books from 1st July onwards. If they complete t...Read Full Story - 09/07/24
WOW, what an event!
Last Friday we hosted the annual World of Work event at Post-16. This is when we invite in all the employers we work with over the year, and give them a lovely lunch, and show them some presentations, to say thank you, and also hopefully to inspire them to do more work with us. It was a really...Read Full Story