Live online discussion with the NI Children and Young People’s Commissioner

Recently, Koulla Yiasouma, the NI Commissioner for Children and Young People and CCEA joined together for a first ever live chat for primary and post primary pupils. A group of our pupils from across the age groups in Post Primary had the opportunity to explore and ask questions about issues affecting them.  They found out […]

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Dance Taster Session

 This week pupils from Post 16 enjoyed a dance taster session with Lesley. Pupils learned simple dance moves and had a whole lot of fun moving and grooving to Tina Turner and Baby Shark!      

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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 […]

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A Tribute to Linda Kerr

Linda started working in the primary department of Dunfane School in 2005 . When Castle Tower School opened in 2007 she continued in the Dunfane site primary department for many years. Later she transferred to the secondary department and worked with year 8 and 9 form classes where she nurtured the pupils and teachers in […]

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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 […]

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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.  […]

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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.  

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Tribute to Dr Robert Coulter

It is with great sadness that we must inform you that our much loved Chair of Governors Dr Robert Coulter passed away late last night. Our whole school community mourns the loss of this remarkable man who had a huge heart for all of our young people and who dedicated himself to getting the very […]

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Private Hire of Facilities

Application forms for the Private Hire of Facilities can be obtained from the school office as from 24/08/18, completed forms to be returned to school no later than 07/09/18 for consideration.

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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 […]

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