Overseas students can now enjoy a fun and intensive course at Casterton School this August. ‘English 100’ is for male and female students aged 12-17 whatever their level of English-speaking ability, and provides 100 hours of English study during the three-week course.
Three Casterton girls, Molly Bedford, Grace Willacy and Issy Chamberlain, played for their club Kirkby Lonsdale, in the National U12 Hockey Finals in Cannock on Saturday 12th May.
On 15th, 16th and 17th March 2012 at Casterton School, audiences witnessed the pupils performing one of the all-time great Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals, Evita, superbly directed by Casterton’s Head of Drama, Nici Marriott.
Casterton staff, from a range of departments (teaching, riding, sport and administration), participated in the Wray 10km road race on Saturday 28th April.
A Year 8 student from Casterton School near Kirkby Lonsdale has been selected to be one of the Olympic torch bearers during the Olympic torch relay between Morecambe and Lancaster on 22nd June 2012
Our Upper 6th English Literature students were given a further opportunity to enhance their knowledge of the Gothic genre, to be examined in June, by a visit from an expert in the field. Dr Catherine Spooner, a senior lecturer in Gothic Literature at Lancaster University, presented our students with a range of new perspectives on the genre.
Casterton Schools senior tennis team have for a third year running reached the last 24 of all secondary schools in Great Britain in the Aegon sponsored Senior Girls Cup Competition.
On Wednesday 1 February 2012, six Year 10 students from Casterton travelled down to St Augustine’s School in Clitheroe to participate in the regional heats of the English Speaking Union’s Public Speaking Competition.
Pupils in the Upper Sixth at Casterton School have organised a sponsored swim on 24th February 2012 in order to help raise money for the charity Build Africa.
The backdrop of fells provided a superb setting for the North Small Schools’ Lacrosse Tournament which was held at Casterton School last Sunday 22nd January.
It has been another busy term for the Casterton Science Club. As well as our regular students, we have had up to thirty girls attending on Thursday afternoons. The range of activities has been diverse and the themes have covered all three science disciplines; please read on for an overview of the fun so far!
Hoping to repeat their success in the ESU’s public speaking competition earlier in the year, Casterton’s 6th Form public speakers entered the Rotary Club 'Youth Speaks' competition on Monday 14th November.
The Westmorland Youth Orchestra takes to Kirkby Lonsdale’s Queen Elizabeth School stage on Saturday (7.30pm) with new conductor Roland Fudge picking up the baton
This was a very successful afternoon and the audience of staff, students and parents were extremely impressed with the calibre of the presentations. Each student spoke for 10 minutes, after which there was five minutes for questions from the audience.
It was a great honour for Mrs Thistlethwaite and Miss Haigh to accompany Mrs Sykes to the ‘Independent School Awards’ held at the National Motorbike Museum on Wednesday 16th November.
Overseas students can now enjoy a fun and intensive course at Casterton School this August. ‘English 100’ is for male and female students aged 12-17 whatever their level of English-speaking ability, and provides 100 hours of English study during the three-week course.
