10B’s Assembly

10B invited Trevor and Desi from the Gideon Bible Society into school. They presented Mr McFeeters with a beautiful Bible for his office. Also, they distributed Bibles to the Year 8 classes. Desi shared an important message that God loves us and that He helps us in school to make good choices.  

Year 12 Art & Design

Year 12 Art & Design pupils recently completed their art projects for ELQ. The pupils put on a fantastic display of 2D and 3D Art. Their work looks amazing!    

Year 9 Visit to Greenmount Campus

Year 9 pupils visited Greenmount CAFRE Campus as part of their Employability studies. They were given a guided tour around the dairy farm and also had the opportunity to see what an average day on the beef and sheep farm looked like. Pupils were in awe of the huge milking parlour, the robotic sweeper that is […]

Year 10 Sponsored Walk

Year 10 Sponsored Walk Year 10 pupils were asked to organise a fundraiser for an international charity of their choice as part of their ASDAN Citizenship programme. After researching numerous charities pupils chose the British Red Cross as their charity and came up with the idea of a sponsored walk to raise funds. Year 10s […]

Year 10 Rotary Club Technology Tournament at NRC

On Thursday 15th March six Year 10 pupils participated in a technology tournament at NRC Farm Lodge campus, Ballymena. Seventeen teams from 8 different schools took part in the competition, which was hosted by Northern Regional College in partnership with Ballymena Rotary Club and with the generous support of the local business community. The teams […]

Amazing The Space Showcase Event, Eikon Centre

Last year Co-operation Ireland along with a youth led steering committee delivered the Amazing the Space project which saw 5,000 pupils across Northern Ireland and beyond take part in youth led peacebuilding initiative. Castle Tower has been part of this initiative submitting our school peace pledge. Our pledge : We promise to ……… -play with […]

Class 5 Growing Spuds

Class 5 have been very busy learning about growing their own produce. This term we chose to plant potatoes but hope to do more planting next term. The children had great fun mixing the compost and manure together and planting the potatoes.

Nursery’s Special Visitors

This term the Nursery have been learning about Baby Animals and they had a very exciting visit from some chicks! Everyone who saw them had a lot of fun. Nursery, P1 and Class S2 got all dressed up for an Easter Photoshoot too along with some of the chicks. Happy Easter!

Class 6A and 6C go for an Indian meal

Mr McAllister and Mrs McCrystal’s class headed to the Sanjha Indian restaurant as part of their topic work this term. The children loved every minute of the experience as some tried some different foods. The staff at the restaurant were fantastic and everyone had a wonderful day out. The children were superb and wanted to […]

10A

Celebrating Success 10A have been working very hard using persuasive text. They carefully planned and edited a persuasive speech about animals being kept in zoos. The pupils have demonstrated respect for each others opinions. The students presented their speech in front of the class, showing growth in maturity and confidence. Well done 10A!!!