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- 03/07/18
Brass and Cello performances
On Friday last week our school brass band performed outside to visitors and passing students. The band is made up of students from Key Stage 2 through to Post 16. All the students have had lessons with Sam from Berkshire Maestros, and they now show a real awareness for performing t...Read Full Story - 03/07/18
Building Healthy Environments
This term, Key Stage 3 are learning to build a healthy environment in their Citizenship lessons. Colchester Class looked at photos of different environments and gave their first impressions on the people who 'owned' the areas. After being shown a photo of a neglected plant pot, Colchester we...Read Full Story - 29/06/18
Sports Day Spectacular!
This week saw both the Primary and Secondary Sports mornings. Despite the sweltering heat, our students and staff got out there and did us proud, whilst proud parents watched on. After a session of tightly contested races on the track the teams took part in various field events, some with parents ta...Read Full Story - 27/06/18
Colchester's Stained Glass Windows
In RE this term, KS3 are learning about Humanism. Colchester have learnt that Humanists do not believe in God and they do not follow a set of rules to live their life by. Instead, they believe that all human beings are special and that human life is valuable. They believe that human beings...Read Full Story - 26/06/18
What is P4PC?
Once a term, at the Castle school, volunteers from every class in Primary, Secondary and Post-16 attend a "Pupils for Positive Change" (P4PC) meeting. Prior to these meetings each class is given a topic for discussion. As the school is rewriting their "Small Steps...Read Full Story - 22/06/18
Tag Rugby Champions!
Key Stage 3 pupils Joshua, Ethan, Ibrahim, Sean and Hakim played and won the Brookfields School tag rugby tournament this week. Each player worked really hard in attack and equally as good in defence. This was achieved without losing a single game with all boys scoring tries in the tournament...Read Full Story - 21/06/18
Castle Catering at Greenham Common
The wonderful Castle Catering and Hospitality Team will be serving fresh bacon and sausage butties from 8.30am until 11.30am this Saturday (23rd June) at the Greenham Common Tower. At 12pm the team will be serving afternoon teas and other goodies in the Tower Cafe. Come along and sample the amazing...Read Full Story - 15/06/18
Fabulous Fete Total!
Thanks to the amazingly generous folks who supported our wonderful fete last weekend, we can reveal that the grand total we raised from the day is an amazing £1600!! A huge thank you again to everyone. This really will go a long way towards helping in establishing our new sensory music gadren...Read Full Story - 15/06/18
Oxford Activity Week
This week Oxford Class have been completing a range of activities as part of their activity week. The pupils have visited Chessington World of Adventures and been bowling, go-karting, canoeing and scaled a climbing wall. The pupils have been incredible! They have tried new things and...Read Full Story - 12/06/18
Fabulous Fete!
On Saturday we had our school fete. To be honest, it felt more like a festival than a fete, with a selection of traditional and modern stalls, amazing food (put on by our very own Castle Hospitality and Catering Enterprise) and singing from the Castle Choir and music courtesy of the Castle Brass Ban...Read Full Story - 12/06/18
West Berkshire SEND Strategy Consultation
West Berkshire Council are conducting a consultation on the proposed SEND Strategy. The consultation is open until midnight on Friday 20th July. More details are in the attached letter. The links to the consultation are below: Draft SEND Strategy www.westberks.gov.uk/sendstrategy2018 Questi...Read Full Story - 04/06/18
Free Dyslexia Workshop
The West Berkshire Parent Carer Forum are running a free workshop and would really appreciate your help to promote. Local dyslexia specialist, Jacqui Flisher will explain why dyslexia is not a learning disability but a unique way of thinking, learning and seeing the world. She also discusses the...Read Full Story