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- 23/04/24
WOW at Newbury Races
We had a fantastic World of Work visit this week. Two of our students - Sam and Connor - went to work experience at Newbury Racecourse, where they assisted the stewards checking tickets, as customers arrived for the "Dubai Duty Free Spring Trials" on Friday 19th April. We were give...Read Full Story - 15/04/24
Welcome Back
Welcome back to all our wonderful students, staff and parents for the start of term 5. We are all looking forward to the weather improving during this term, which I'm sure it will. Remember that we have a bank holiday on Monday 6th May 2024, when school will be closed. The last da...Read Full Story - 27/03/24
Wishing Everyone a Happy Easter
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 - 14/03/24
Theatre Mask Workshop
This term, students in Tiverton and Dover Classes have been exploring Theatre Masks and, as part of their work, participated in a workshop with Trestle Theatre Company. Students interpreted their character masks through expressive body language and began presenting their work back to an audien...Read Full Story - 13/03/24
Windsor's World of Books
Since January, Windsor class have been working hard on a collaborative book project with Newbury Library. Chenoa, a children's librarian, gave us a selection of Book Trust books to keep at school and review. Chenoa read the stories to us at the library, and then we took them back to school and e...Read Full Story - 06/03/24
What a Superstar
One of our students had amazing success this week Well done - super amazingRead Full Story - 04/03/24
Perfect Pizzas
Skipton class went to a pizza making workshop at Pizza Express on Wednesday 28th February. They listened to the chef’s instructions really well and made the tastiest pizzas which we ate when we came back to school. They were delicious!Read Full Story - 19/02/24
Welcome Back to term 4
Welcome back to all our wonderful students, staff and parents for the start of term 4. We have quite a few things going on in this short term. Here are a few as follows: Thursday 7th March 2024 - World Book Day. A celebration of all things related to reading w/b 11th March 2024 - Parent Con...Read Full Story - 31/01/24
Castle "Bake Off"
On Friday we were working in groups looking up different recipes, looking for healthy pizzas. "I found a recipe for pizza pepperoni rolls, I thought it would look good. It was really hard to find" said Wilson. Jackie had invited us to a bake off challenge against parents. We then wrote a s...Read Full Story - 31/01/24
Jack and The Beanstalk
M&M productions gave a fabulous production of Jack and the Beanstalk. It was absolutely wonderful to see all the students and staff alike enjoying the show. Students were commenting on the quick scenery changes, asking how did they do that? Commenting on how funny it was, that their tummies hurt...Read Full Story - 31/01/24
Castle visit Castle!
We walked all the way to Donnington Castle on Wednesday afternoon. We did a hard challenge activity finding parts of the castle. Dylan F said, ‘he liked finding all the things on the sheet. He thought it was interesting.’ We looked for materials like wood brick and plastic to see i...Read Full Story - 10/01/24
Welcome Back and Happy New Year
A warm welcome back and a Happy New Year to our Castle School Community.Read Full Story