World Book Day 2018

For World Book Day 2018 the primary department dressed up as their favourite book characters. Our pupils even got to meet the Gruffalo!

Sensory Classes

People Who Help Us This term the sensory classes learnt about lots of different people in the community who help us. We are very thankful for the great work that the Healthcare, Police and Fire Services do to help keep us safe and healthy. The Police Service of Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service came to visit us. Our pupils loved […]

Secondary Assembly – World Kindness Day

World Kindness Day On 5th March our secondary pupils celebrated World Kindness Day in assembly. They were encouraged to have a positive attitude and share a smile with those they meet!  February: Pupil of the Month Here are our fantastic students who received Pupil of the Month certificates.

Children’s Hospice

In 8B’s assembly this week, Castle Tower celebrate the great fund raising efforts of the school which were organised by the School Council and Mrs O’Neill. Last term we held a fund raising afternoon in which all classes participated in an activity to raise money for the Children’s Hospice, our charity for this year. The school raised […]

8As Copper Collection

  Class 8A and Parents and Friends NEED your help! We plan to collect as many coppers as we can between now and June. We aim to display the words  CASTLE TOWER in writing and then take an aerial picture which we will put on the web site. All the money raised will go towards an end of term […]

Ulster Museum Art Trip

On Thursday 8th of February year 11 and 12 ELQ students when to Ulster Museum to view the true colours exhibition and visit the museum. They had a great day and viewed some interesting and some not so interesting works of art, to help inspire their visual enquiry pages and final pieces. They looked at a few […]

Staff Health and Wellbeing Session

On Monday 5th March staff in school attended a Wellbeing session organised by Mrs McCaughan. Activities included aerobics, yoga, a makeup session, an ECO walk, games sessions, sports hall activities, Mindfulness sessions and many more. Thanks to the facilitators who provided the sessions.  It was a great afternoon and allowed the staff to use the facilities […]

Class 1H having lots of fun!

  In Nursery we have had lots of fun playing in the snow, we made a snowman with Class 1H    

Assemblies in Castle Tower

In Castle Tower we hold school assemblies every week. This is  a chance for the pupils to come together to celebrate achievements and learn about different things. In January Claire Caulfield came to talk to us about the charity Braveheartsni which she founded in 2014. She talked about the need for resources  for teenagers with congenital heart […]

Castle Tower and Dunclug Primary School Tournament

Playsport NI concluded their coaching sessions within the school this week as we had our inter-schools tournament which was as always supported by Dunclug Primary School. The two schools played in a set of 6 mixed teams and a fantastic day was had by all. The children supported each other, played in a very sporting […]