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!!!

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 […]