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- 23/01/18
Shaw Woodland Project
Over the last two years our younger pupils have been working with Newbury Community Resources Centre in the Shaw woodland. Classes in our lower primary take turns to spend one morning a week for a term going to the woodland to explore and learn new skills. This has proved to be a wonderful reso...Read Full Story - 22/01/18
SEND Local Offer Day
This free event is being run by the West Berkshire Parent Forum in association with West Berkshire Council. Please click the link below to downlaod the whole flyer.Read Full Story - 17/01/18
Outer Space arrives at The Castle!
This week we had the wonders of space brought to life at The Castle. A huge inflatable planetarium dome was put up in the secondary hall and our pupils had sessions throughout the day experiencing amazing space-related activities. Here is some of the feedback that was collected by Alfie, one of our...Read Full Story - 16/01/18
Kyle's review
One of our Key Stage 4 pupils, Kyle, wrote a review of the Royal Philarmonic visit in December. You can download the review below. Thank you Kyle.Read Full Story - 05/01/18
Colchester go to Infinity and Beyond!
Colchester have been starting to learn about the different planets in our solar system. Today, we created two scale models to help us to understand the size of the planets and how far away from each other they are. First (above), we made scale models of the planets in our solar system using Play...Read Full Story - 05/01/18
Rugby with London Irish
London Irish Rugby Club have been working with some of our key stage 4 and 5 students over the past term. The team offer and deliver exciting and challenging experience for our students, which has included learning the skills involved in contact rugby. There was also a very successf...Read Full Story - 04/01/18
Welcome back
A very Happy New Year to everyone. Welcome back to term 3. from now until Easter we will be looking at all things space-related. Our theme is "To Infinity and Beyond". We are all looking forward to the exciting adventures in learning that will take place.Read Full Story - 19/12/17
We wish you all a very Merry Christmas
All at The Castle School would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We look forward to seeing all our pupils again on Thursday 4th January 2018.Read Full Story - 19/12/17
Wonderful Christmas performances
The school band playing at The Key Stage 3 and 4 performanceRead Full Story - 19/12/17
Christmas lunches
We have had some wonderful Christmas lunches in the run-up to Christmas. At Love Lane both primary and secondary students and staff enjoyed a meal prepared by our catring team. At Post-16 this week we enjoyed a feast prepared by our Post-16 student catering team. Thank you to everyone involved who m...Read Full Story - 18/12/17
December Reading Challenge
Following the success of our November Reading Challenge, we have a Christmas-Themed Challenge for our pupils to get stuck into over the holidays. You can download the challenge below and get started right away. Good luck!Read Full Story - 15/12/17
Catering for the RDA
This week our amazing Castle Hospitality and Catering Team did a very impressive afternoon tea for volunteers past and present from the RDA (Riding for the Disabled Association) at Walwyn Hall in Lambourn. Our students had a marvellous time and it was a fantastic opportunity for them to practice the...Read Full Story