NI Children’s Hospice Fundraiser

Castle Tower are extremely proud of our nursery pupil, Tommy Reid, who presented a cheque for an astonishing £32, 671.47 to The Northern Ireland Children’s Hospice. The local fitness club ‘Gladiator Training’ run by Scott McGarry sought to raise £30k by rowing a million metres. As you can see they went well above their target […]

C2 Agriculture Class

Aoibeann Walsh, Social Farming Service Co-Ordinator Rural Support, visited Mr McCaughan and Class C2 on the farm this week. She observed and chatted with the pupils as they worked on their tasks.

10B Money Topic

As part of Year 10’s topic on money, Class 10B took part in a budgeting challenge which included 6 weekly visits to local supermarkets. To begin they were given £20 and they had to work out how much they had to spend each week. During their visits the pupils had to choose a few different […]

New Year Resolutions

6L have been very busy over the past few weeks of this new term. We have been talking about New Year Resolutions and discussing why some people make them. Keeping with this we have enjoyed being active and taking part in PE and swimming in the Hydro Pool and Leisure Centre. We also made a […]

The Music Yard

Class C5 were given the opportunity to visit The Music Yard in December, kindly gifted to us as a Christmas present from one of our parents. We want to say a big thank you for this opportunity! During our session we got to play a variety of instruments as Thomas played and sang for us. […]

Practical Learning in the Community

Class 6M have been exploring the topic of money. During this topic they have had the opportunity to visit ‘The Range’ on a weekly basis. Here the assistants all help the children explore the store, look at prices and the amount of money they have budgeting. The children get to select an item and are given […]

ABP Angus Youth Challenge

Congratulations to Daniel, Joshua, Zach, Martin and Scott pupils from Mr McCaughan’s class for reaching the next stage of the ABP Angus Youth Challenge competition. They will compete on the 29th January and will be interviewed by representatives from the Northern Irish Angus Producer Group, ABP and a Career Guidance Teacher. Well done to each […]

Class C1 at Christmas

We in class C1 are all a bit fitter as we reach Christmas. Do you want to know why? Well in September we embarked on a mission to try to walk a mile every day. While we may have missed a few days over the course of the past 4 months we did for the […]

Class C2 Residential

Class C2 went on a residential trip to Belfast last week and stayed in the Ramada Encore Hotel. They went out for dinner, went to the cinema, had breakfast, visited the Christmas markets and did some Christmas shopping before returning to school on Wednesday evening.

Prince’s Trust Certificates

Ulster and Ireland player, Luke Marshall, presented pupils with their Prince’s Trust certificates. Well done to our pupils who achieved Level 1 accreditation in ‘Participating in Exercise’.