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Castle - Bringing learning to life through arts and culture. Posted on: 17/06/2021

Castle - Bringing learning to life through arts and culture.

Castle Primary School – Are delighted to be bringing learning to life through arts and culture. Castle Primary School’s staff and pupils are delighted to have been successful in securing £1500 funding from Artsmark SPARK for developing their arts and cultural learning at the school. Castle will be using the funds to support their arts and culture curriculum to boost teaching, learning and creativity and to increase the wellbeing of staff and pupils, especially during these challenging times. Artsmark SPARK is an opportunity for Somerset schools to access additional funding, CPD and support. Other schools that are part of The Redstart Learning Partnership will also be applying and hopefully benefitting from the scheme. Ethne Staniland, the Trust Lead for Art isn’t stopping there, she has also submitted a bid for £360K from the Arts Council National Lottery Development Fund. This is for a Creative Collaboration pilot project: Teaching for creativity. Ethne has submitted the eligibility questionnaire and an expression of interest application. If this is successful the school will progress to the full application stage and she will have 4 weeks to submit a full application for the Trust.  Ethne Staniland from Castle said: “We are delighted to have been successful in our application to Artsmark spark to secure the match funding of £1500. We will be using this to help organise and enhance our current approach to our teaching and learning of the arts. The Artsmark award and the match funding will play an important part in enhancing Castle Primary School's exciting journey.” A spokesperson from The Redstart Learning Partnership said: “This is absolutely fantastic news for Castle Primary school. We are delighted that they have secured £1500 for the school to develop their arts and culture provision at the school. We will be fully supporting their application to the Arts Council and will be keeping everything crossed that their application is a success. We can’t wait to see the impact this will have on the school, the pupils and the staff.”  Categories: 1 CategorySchool News
Eve : The off grid life of a nine year old climate activist. Posted on: 17/06/2021

Eve : The off grid life of a nine year old climate activist.

A film about Eve one of our pupils at Castle Primary School. Filmmakers Lucy and Joya discuss their carbon conscious approach to making their documentary about Eve and her community. https://www.theguardian.com/news/georgemonbiot/2021/jun/01/eve-the-off-grid-life-of-a-nine-year-old-climate-activist?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco&fbclid=IwAR2gzuoM0Ewb16MY1fLlc9xCb0S1Zhola6xRMb2JqxRzqCuZUldPqpEGt1QCategories: 1 CategorySchool News
A message from Mr Nation Posted on: 28/05/2021

A message from Mr Nation

Judging by the weather, you wouldn't think it was May and that we are entering our final term of 2020-2021!  With 7 weeks to go, we’re hopeful that annual school events will be able to run as per normal. This will depend upon the national lifting of different restrictions. We will communicate further details around Year 6 leavers, Sports Day etc. once we know more. There have been countless activities taking place over the last term including Bikeability, music (brass) lessons, trips to various places of interest linked to our Discovery project focusing on History, drumming workshops, Forest School and countless sporting activities. Every member of staff, visitors to the school and responsible adults from outside of Castle Primary have said how well the children have behaved and what a delight they have been to teach. The children are truly living out our school Vision and Values which is wonderful.  Our Values Assemblies  have continued to focus on ‘equality’ and ‘diversity’. The children have demonstrated great empathy and understanding. They realise the importance of ‘acceptance’ in such a diverse world and have shown great maturity when discussing these matters.  I hope you all have a lovely half term.   Categories: 1 CategorySchool News

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