The Council has agreed to delay the ‘treatment’ of the Vale soccer pitch for three days to allow the unbeaten JKS Under 13 team to play their final match of the season on Sunday morning. The match was under threat because the Council had removed the goalposts from the Farnborough Road pitches, including the the [...]
The spelling is open to negotiation at the moment, but the Valeothon is the proposed title for a 5-kilometre sponsored walk being organised by local police and youth organistations for Saturday 19th July. The walk, round the perimeter of Castle Vale, will be part of the Playscheme Summer Activities programme and will also have a [...]
Tyrone Boris and friends
Tyrone Fowles, Vale’s member of the Young People’s Parliament, had a day in the House of Lords on Friday, as he and his aspiring young colleagues decided what the important issues of the year should be for the YPP.
Tyrone, a Year 11 student at Castle Vale School, was elected earlier this [...]
Rutland Water
The first of the 40 St Gerards birthday balloons, released from the school in Castle Vale on 23rd April, has been found 70 miles away on the shores of Rutland Water, in the County of Rutland, bordering Leicestershire.
The balloons were all numbered, and tagged with the address of the school, urging finders to contact [...]
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If you find a red balloon, perhaps in fragments, with a tag attached to it, look carefully - it may be one of the 40 released by pupils from St Gerards School on St George’s Day, the school’s 40th birthday. At 1pm on Wednesday lunchtime, after [...]
St Gerards School, Castle Vale, celebrated its 40th birthday, today, on St George’s Day. Vale Mail is very grateful to Ann Nicholls of St Gerards School for the photos, one of which shows the School’s three headteachers. Most will recognise the current Headteacher, David Hird (2006-present day), and of course, Barbara Peel (1992-2006). Older [...]
above: ‘Back to the 80s’ and ‘High School Musical’
An official report into music lessons at Castle Vale School has described the teaching and learning in the subject as ’satisfactory’, despite ‘exceptionally low’ GCSE results in the subject in 2007, 2006 and 2005. The Ofsted report, given to the school in February, and made [...]
Some schools in Castle Vale will be affected by the NUT (National Union of Teachers) strike on Thursday 24th April.
The information so far is:
Castle Vale (Secondary) School, Farnborough Rd: OPEN for Year 11 as normal, and for Year 10 examinations, CLOSED for Years 7,8 +9
Pegasus School: OPEN
Chivenor School: OPEN
Topcliffe School: CLOSED for pupils
St Gerards School: CLOSED [...]
Click on this link to go to the ten photos of the Junior school 5-a-side soccer tournament organised and managed by Year 11 students from Castle Vale School.
Did you attend St Gerard’s Junior and Infant school in the 1960s ? Patricia Henderson would like your photographs and memorabilia (school reports?) for the St Gerard’s School 40th birthday celebration on 23rd April. Call Patricia on 0121 464 2613.
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