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- 19/10/18
Wishing everyone a wonderful half-term break
I would like to wish all our students and staff a wonderful, well-earned half-term break. I look forward to seeing everyone back on Tuesday 30th October 2018.Read Full Story - 19/10/18
Scones in Skipton
Today Skipton Class opened the doors of the Skipton Class Café to some very important guests! We had to do all the preparations before hand to include: making menus, place-mats and place names. Jo asked us what else a café needed and we said table cloths, glasses, flowers and...Read Full Story - 19/10/18
Watermill Workshops
Dunnottar and Flint Classes were very lucky to benefit from the expertise of staff from The Watermill Theatre participating in a workshop all about Life Skills. The workshop focussed on Teamwork, positive thinking, voice impact and presenting for impact. Students were fully engaged and contributed w...Read Full Story - 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