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 Welcome to The Castle School, Newbury

As the Headteacher I am very proud to welcome you to the website for The Castle School.

The Castle School is a very welcoming and open school with caring staff who are committed to supporting the education of all our young people. We pride ourselves on our warm, caring and supportive atmosphere; a place where young people can flourish, learn, enjoy and be happy. We value and encourage support of parents, professionals and friends.

We cater for young people with a variety of complex learning difficulties from the ages of 2 to 19 years of age. We are based on three sites; The Nursery Unit which is co-located with Victoria Park Nursery in Newbury; The main primary and secondary school at Love Lane; The state-of-the-art Post-16 Centre based at Newbury College Campus.

At The Castle School we:

  • Have small classes with high staffing ratios
  • Focus on personalised and individual needs of our young people
  • Have a highly experienced and qualified staffing team
  • Provide high quality teaching experiences
  • Provide opportunities for all young people to experience the community safely and successfully
  • Make use of the outdoors to deliver much of our curriculum – not just in classroom settings
  • Raise pupil self-esteem and confidence
  • Work in a multi-professional way to ensure that speech and language therapists, physiotherapists, psychologists and other professionals are involved in the personalised education of each individual
  • Use our expertise to help get all our young people “ready for life” to enable them to be successful in the outside world
  • Have wonderful facilities including a hydrotherapy pool, sensory rooms, sensory gardens, music gardens, wheelchair swing, basket swings, climbing frames, trim trail, beautiful grounds all in a secure and safe environment

If you would like to have a chat about any aspect of the school please don’t hesitate to contact me on the school number 01635 42976.

Thank you,

Jon Hewitt

Headteacher

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