Castle Tower Climbing Wall

    We recently welcomed a news crew from Channel 4 who came into school to film and talk to some of our pupils about their experience’s on the school climbing wall. This was part of a news feature which was investigating how the sport of climbing can benefit people both physically and mentally. Thank […]

Work Experience at Sainsbury’s, Ballymena

  On Wednesday 10th October Mrs McPeak had the pleasure of taking 5 students to Sainsbury’s in Ballymena for a Work Experience taster afternoon organised through Autism NI. The students were Louis, Finn, James, Jordan and Ciaran.The pupils had such a great time! They were warmly greeted by Erin (a Sainsbury’s employee) who had organised the training for them and the […]

Castle Tower Partnership with Titanic, Belfast

Castle Tower is pleased to announce that for a second year we have been selected to work in partnership with Titanic, Belfast. Titanic Belfast offers us a fantastic learning experience.  The announcement was made during a visit to our school assembly.  We welcomed the team from Titanic along with one of their mascots the Seagull.  […]

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!