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- 17/10/18
More World Mental Health Day News
Key Stage 4 had a great afternoon for mental health awareness day on 10th October. All 3 classes interacted really well. They had a choice of cricket outside or games in Windsor. It was fab to see everyone getting on so well and was lovely for staff to get to know pupils in different classes t...Read Full Story - 17/10/18
Top Tenor
One of our students, Charlie has been learning the Tenor Horn with Sam from Maestros. Here is some audio of Charlie playing the duet Latin a Go-Go with Sam. We are very proud of Charlie and what he has achiRead Full Story - 17/10/18
World Mental Health Day
Dunnottar and Flint planned activities for everyone to do across the school for World Mental Health Day on Wednesday 10th October. They had to think about each Key Stage and the activities they could access and might enjoy. At Post 16, students took part in a range of different activities aimed...Read Full Story - 16/10/18
Official New Build Opening
We had our official opening of our new build on Monday. This is where members of the local council, local authority, Feltham's - the building company and the architect came to school to see the end result. It was a lovely morning and a chance for people to see what wonderful things go on at...Read Full Story - 16/10/18
Carpentry Corner
One of our Post-16 students, Ricky, has spent the last three Friday afternoons make this amazing bench, made completely out of recycled materials. Ricky has a keen interest in carpentry and showed great skill and enthusiasm in creating this original design. It is made from wooden pallets. Ricky used...Read Full Story - 10/10/18
Castle Food Bank Support
Windsor class took all of the harvest food from our festival to Thatcham food bank yesterday. They were very grateful for our donations and said that lots of people in Newbury and Thatcham need food parcels. The students learned that the food bank helps people who don't have enough food. We...Read Full Story - 08/10/18
Happy Harvest Festival
We had a wonderful whole school Harvest Festival at St Mary's Church in Shaw last week. Pupils performed poems and sung songs to celebrate harvest. The story was told through the eyes of The Sharing Horse and the Selfish Sheep written by Amy, one of our class teachers. We had som,e wonderful don...Read Full Story - 08/10/18
Castle at The Care Home
My group had a great time at the care home on Thursday 4th October. The students were extremely polite and friendly and I was very proud of them. We played skittles and the board games together and there were lots of smiles and cheers from pupils and residents. We are looking forward to going b...Read Full Story - 08/10/18
Plympton Cooking Skills
In Plympton Class, we have been working on our shopping and cooking skills. In addition to preparing snack. So far this term we have brought the ingredients and made crackers, crispy marshmallow squares, cottage pie and apple crumble (using apples picked from Rushall Farm). We have al...Read Full Story - 08/10/18
Jeans 4 Genes
On Friday 21st September, The Castle school worked together to raise a fantastic £154.52 for the 'Jeans for Genes' charity. Primary House organised lots of fun games and activities for all pupils in school, including 'stick the pennies on the jeans', 'guess how m...Read Full Story - 05/10/18
Brilliant Banana Bread and Butter Pudding
Totnes Class baked Banana Bread and Butter pudding this week! In Totnes class, we looked at Fairtrade bananas and how to use them in an affordable recipe. The pupils had to work well in small groups to ensure all of the ingredients were used in the right order!Read Full Story - 04/10/18
Tiverton @ Kennet
We made a cup holder, wooden pan stand and a pair of tongs. For the cup holder we had to glue the two pairs of wood together. Then we drilled holes in the wood to screw in the hooks. We had to drill a hole in the base then we screw the base to the tall wood. “I love Kennet because it is...Read Full Story