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Who we are
Castle School is a specialist provision for children and young people with severe or profound and multiple learning difficulties. At Castle School, we aim to:- Be a happy, safe, caring environment for all our pupils and staff.
- Be a friendly and stimulating environment where learning is fun and interesting.
- Provide a broad, balanced and relevant curriculum appropriate to the needs of each child or young person, taught and assessed through individual learning programmes.
- Provide relevant opportunities and experiences out of the Academy to help our young people understand being part of a wider community.
- Develop the self esteem, self awareness and confidence of each of our pupils.
- Work in partnership with parents, carers and other professionals.
" If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn."
Ignacio Estrada
" Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I will remember. Involve me and I will understand. Step back and I will act."
Chinese Proverb
" Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don’t fit into boxes."
Tori Amos
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The pupils in Green 2 have been loving their community learning this term, bringing the classroom into the real world!
We took a trip to the Winter Gardens in Sunderland, we explored the rainforest-themed sensory area and watched the big koi swimming gracefully in the water.
Here is Harry sporting his fabulous odd socks and Bailey with a special message on his t-shirt to promote World Down Syndrome Day (and we couldn’t agree more!) #WDSD2025
Last week was #BritishScienceWeek, and some of our Formal pathway pupils have been participating in Science club after school. So far, we have had fun making our own lava lamps and joining in with different experiments.
World Book Day 2025
“You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.” (Dr. Seuss)
#WorldBookDay #worldbookday2025
Liam and Brody were excited to participate in some work experience in the office during #NationalCareersWeek. They supported the team with tasks such as photocopying and delivering items to various classrooms. The office team said they did a great job!
As part of #NationalCareersWeek, we had a special visitor - Steven the Lego Man from Brick This.
Steve builds architecture out of lego and talked to us about the different skills he demonstrates in his job and then used Lego and Kinnex to build our own Lego structures.