Eco-Schools Club

Eco-Schools club is glad to be back after the summer holidays! Pupils got to grips with the weeds and picked some of fresh apples and plums from our beautiful orchard.  

Post 16 Horticulture Initiative

Please see a display of photos which reflects all of the hard work put into our Post 16 Horticulture initiative which commenced in September 2017. It is a credit to the staff involved, the pupils and of course Mr Bill Faulkner who is invaluable to making the project a success. This initiative has been supported […]

Year 8 ‘How to make slime’

The Year 8 ICT project is to create a ‘How to’ video using the iPad. As a class we decided to make messy slime!!! We took pictures of each step of making the slime and we are going to create the video using iMovie. It was great MESSY fun!  

The Walled City Marathon

A massive congratulations to Wendy McAuley, one of our Classroom Assistants, who completed her 12th Marathon on Sunday! Well done Wendy!!!

Belfast Marathon Relay Teams

On May Day this year, three teams of staff from Castle Tower ran in the Belfast Marathon Relay Race. We want to say a huge thank you to everyone who supported us!  We raised a fantastic £1400. £700 will be going to Headway Ballymena, a charity that supports volunteers who all have personal experience of […]

Ulster Rugby Summer Camp

Castle Tower Formal 2018

Castle Tower Formal 2018 This year our school formal was held at The Wild Duck in Portglenone on Thursday 10th May. Our older pupils, their family and staff had a fantastic evening celebrating. We had a wonderful meal and finished up the evening with some dancing!  

Post 16 Planting Crops

Daffodils, planted by Post 16 pupils, popping up to say hello! Andrew sampling our first crops. Robbie busy gathering the peas which were planted by Post 16.

Autism Training

Middletown Centre for Autism Training April and May 2018 saw parents, carers as well as teachers and LSA’s from Castle Tower, surrounding schools (Slemish College & St. Louis) and a local Autism Support group benefit from Autism Training facilitated by the “Middletown Centre for Autism”. Parent training was one of the goals identified by the […]

Nursery Pony Cycle

The pupils of Castle Tower Nursery class worked tirelessly to make crafts to sell to parents and friends to raise money to purchase the pony cycle.  Marlene Burton, the school secretary’s husband Michael from “Davidson and Hardy” kindly donated £100 to complete their purchase. Pupils are delighted.  The pony offers a great deal of proprioceptive […]