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  • 18/04/18
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    Castle School Fete - 1pm this Saturday

    Being opened by Adam Brown, actor and comedian, best known for playing the dwarf Ori in Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy and Cremble in Pirates of the Caribbean. Our wonderful fete will take place at our Love Lane site from 1pm this Saturday, the 9th June. Please come along and brin...
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  • 16/04/18
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    Welcome back

    A warm welcome back to everyone for the start of the summer term! I am hopeful that we will have some better weather conditions from now on and that we will gert a bit more sunshine and warmer temperatures. Please check out our calendar to see what is happening this term. You can find it by click...
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  • 29/03/18
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    Have a wonderful Easter

    I hope everyone has a wonderful time over the Easter period. Today we had a lovely Easter celebration assembly organised by Amy Murray. The pupils made a wonderful video about the Easter Story. They made finger puppets to depict all the characters and created the video using various techniques. Enjo...
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  • 29/03/18
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    This term's wonderful Art

    All pupils have completed various projects all to do with our topic of "To Infinity and Beyond."  Primary House explored different textures and materials to create moons, aliens, spaceships and even alien hats with googly eyes. They particularly liked exploring the playdough to create...
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  • 29/03/18
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    Internet Safety Day @ The Castle

    Today, the Castle School were involved in 4 separate Internet Safety workshops throughout the day. The day involved us going on a cyber adventure and imagining we were part of a game, where the leader Andrew was being controlled as a character in the game. We learnt about the importance of...
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  • 27/03/18
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    Castle School World of Work Celebration

    On Friday 9th March we held our annual “World of Work” celebration at the Castle School Post-16 unit. This is our opportunity to say thank you to all of the amazing organisations who support the World of Work programme by providing work experience or other ways for our students to intera...
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  • 22/03/18
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    Skipton's Space Experiments

    Skipton have been learning about meteorites and how they may produce craters. We did an experiment, making sure it was a fair test. We dropped objects from the same height through a cardboard tube and looked at the damaged caused. We predicted the heaviest object would cause the most damage. Jo taug...
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  • 16/03/18
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    Science Week @ The Castle School

    This week has been British Science week and the pupils at The Castle School have been getting involved with many different activities to engage them in Science. They have been working in different classes to their own with different teachers and have explored many topics. Some have investigated chem...
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  • 12/03/18
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    Pastoral Team Easter Crafts fun

    We had the wonderful Easter Craft Event today for parents. The event, run by The Castle School Pastoral Team went really well with lots of chat and laughter. Some parents are keen to try out some of the new recipes with their children at home as they felt it was something they would enjoy together...
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  • 09/03/18
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    World Book Day

    After having to postpone the event last week due to the weather we had an amazing and very successful World Book Day this week on Thursday. Students and staff dressed up in some wonderful outfits of their favourite book character. Some of the incredible creations are below. Of course, I would lik...
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  • 09/03/18
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    Inspirational illustrators

    During World Book Day (the rerun) Oxford Class explored the work of Nick Sharratt, who is an author and illustrator. He illustrates Jacqueline Wilson's books and has written his own books including Shark in the Park. Oxford Class created their own Sharratt inspired illustrations...
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  • 09/03/18
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    Time Out for Special Needs course for parents

    Parenting Special Children are running a seven week course for parent/carers of primary-aged children with Special Educational Needs who live in, or whose child attends a school in West Berkshire. Content: Helping self esteem Coping with feelings Understanding behaviour Mana...
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