Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Trip to Holdenby House

  Thu 16 Oct 2025 Rachel Miles

  This half term year 1 and 2 are studying life in the past. This covers homes, toys, transport, communication and appliances. EYFS are learning all about homes and the past.  Holdenby House is a wonderful stately house in Northamptonshire.  The children will have an opportunity to work in a Victorian kitchen, pretend to be a servant and possibly meet Queen Victoria! The children will need to dress up in Victorian clothes for the day but this can be done with their existing school uniform if you don't want to buy anything special. More details about this will follow soon.  

• Book Fair

  Mon 13 Oct 2025 Rachel Miles

  From the beginning of 13th October until 17th October, we will be holding our annual Book Fair.  This is an opportunity for you to come and purchase some wonderful new books plus raise some money for us to purchase new books for the school. Our wonderful FOCs team will be in touch shortly regarding getting volunteers to run the book fair! 

• Harvest Festival

  Thu 09 Oct 2025 Rachel Miles

  We will be holding our annual Harvest festival in the church. We will plan to start at 9am so when you drop your child at school please head over to the church to get a seat. We will then bring the children over to the church and present our Harvest celebration to you.  Afterwards, we will take the children back to school and you are then invited to attend our Curriculum Meeting. In this meeting, we will talk about our Reading program, maths, science and foundation subjects. This should only last for a maximum of 30 minutes, as we will need to get back to teaching. We look forward to seeing you! 

• Curriculum Meeting 9.30 am until 10 am

  Thu 09 Oct 2025 Rachel Miles

  After our Harvest Festival Celebration, we will be holding a Curriculum Meeting back at the school.  This meeting will give you an opportunity to find out about how we teach different subjects.  

• Castlethorpe Open Days

  Mon 15 Sep 2025 Rachel Miles

• Safer Internet Day

  Tue 11 Feb 2025

  Today is Safer Internet Day and this year's theme is ‘Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others from scams online‘.

  This week, the children will be taking part in a number of activities around the theme of ‘too good to be true?’ and to learn about how to protect themselves, and others, from scams online.

   

   

  

• Children's mental Health Week

  Mon 03 Feb 2025

  This week is Children's Mental Health Week. This letter has gone out to all parents today: Children's mental Health Week Letter

• Toscana Strings Quintet Visit Castlethorpe First School!

  Tue 26 Nov 2024 Rachel Miles

  The experiences which the children are given at Castlethorpe First School are really very special! On Friday, we were visited by Toscana Strings a multi-award winning string quintet https://www.toscanastrings.co.uk/. They provide schools with opportunities to listen to a professional orchestra. What is even more special is that they intertwine the music around different stories as well as from classical music. The children were given a workshop on the Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky. In addition to the music, there was also a professional ballerina to accompany the orchestra. The children were captivated and mesmerised throughout the whole performance, you could have heard a pin drop! They were even given an impromptu ballet lesson at the end, which they thoroughly enjoyed. A very special day, organised by Danielle Kipling the VSF music lead from Newton Blossomville.

  

• Forest Schools at Castlethorpe

  Tue 26 Nov 2024 Rachel Miles

  If you go down to the woods today,

  You're in for a great surprise!!

  Yes, that's right, Forest Schools has started for Castlethorpe First School children! Each week they will be attending a Forest School session, led by VSF Forest Lead Lisa Humphries. Ofsted has described her sessions as 'magical!' Having attended the first session, I can vouch that it really was a very magical experience, which even brought a glorious sun-baked day! All the children have been given brand new waterproof raincoats and trousers by our wonderful Castlethorpe FOCs ! These will allow them to really immerse themselves in the sessions. During these sessions, the children will learn about bushcraft, different trees and plants, how to keep safe, den making, forest school art, and lots, lots more!

  

• Open afternoon at Castlethorpe First School

  Thu 19 Sep 2024

  OPEN AFTERNOON

  Is your child due to start School in September 2025?

  Our open afternoon is on Tuesday 8th October 2024, 1.30-2.30pm.

  Come along and see what we can offer your child for a fantastic start to their school journey.

  We look forward to seeing you!