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- 23/11/23
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Visiting the Rainforest
Today, Oxford class visited The Living Rainforest to learn about biomes and sustainability. Lucy was our tour guide and talked about ‘Sustainable Future’ Lucy explored sustainable development and its impact for different people, places and environments, using specific e...Read Full Story - 21/11/23
Parenting Special Children Session
Parenting Special Children in association with Brighter Futures for Children are offering a training day for parents titled "From Conflict to Connection". The day will take place on Wednesday 31st January. To find out more please click hereRead Full Story - 08/11/23
Castle School make Food Bank Delivery
Representatives of P4PC delivered the produce collected on our Harvest day to the Food Bank at Greenham on Monday. The food bank were very grateful for the food items. The donations weighed a total of 80.1kg which is the equivalent of 168 meals! Whilst there, the students had a tour of the food bank...Read Full Story - 01/11/23
Marvellous Me!
Key Stage 1 and 2 have been creating abstract backgrounds by mixing their primary colours and using different materials to create prints and patterns. They finished these off by adding an image of themselves with their favourite things.Read Full Story - 01/11/23
Fun with Photos
Pupils had fun in Go Afternoon experimenting with Photographs. They explored a range of different techniques to create innovative, imaginative and at times surreal art work.Read Full Story - 01/11/23
Experimenting with different Grades of Pencil
Tiverton and Carisbroke class have been learning about value (one of the elements of art). They learnt that shading within a picture shows light and dark. Without shading an image can appear flat. The students experimented with different grades of pencil to create drawings of noses, mouths and ears...Read Full Story - 19/10/23
Castle School Harvest Festival and Bake-Off
P4PC have working very hard to plan, organise and run our whole school Harvest Day, which took place today. We had a fantastic Castle School Bake Off. The judges said: "It was immense and such a lovely experience" Here are the winners: Stuck at It Award...Read Full Story - 19/10/23
Friends of Castle - Relaunch
Friends of Castle Relaunch We are pleased to announce the official relaunch of The Friends of Castle School. We would love you to join us and help make a difference to all our children’s education at the school. If you are interested and would like to be part of a group of par...Read Full Story - 13/10/23
Upcoming Parent Courses
We have 3 very exciting courses coming up next term. These courses are designed for parents and carers of children at The Castle School. They are: A Sleep Clinic run by NHS Sleep Practitioners and Jackie Hogg on 17th November A toilet training intervention workshop...Read Full Story - 09/10/23
Roald Dahl Literacy Project Showcase
At the end of last year pupils within Colchester Class devised an ensemble theatre performance of Roald Dahl’s ‘BFG.’ Over the course of the summer term, pupils used improvisation as a stimulus for script writing, developed characters through voice & gesture and experimen...Read Full Story - 05/10/23
Harvest Day at Newbury Showground
Windsor class really enjoyed the Autumn Harvest Day at Newbury showground. They explored and tasted apples, soup, vegetables and apple crumble and took part in a nature hunt. They were able to communicate well with the volunteers and staff at the showground. Windsor have been growing pumpki...Read Full Story - 25/09/23
Flu Immunisations 28.9.23
Just a reminder that flu immunisations for all children at school are being carried out on Thursday this week (28th September). These can only be given to children if you have given consent. If you haven;t given consent yet, but wish to do so, please read the attached letter that explains how to do...Read Full Story