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19 Feb 2021 AFRICAN AID: Pupils and staff from Barnard Castle School on a visit to Kenya before lockdown STUDENTS are running, climbing and cycling into action to help pupils in Africa combat Covid-19 and return to their classrooms. Barnard Castle School pupils have so far raised more than £3,000, which will be used to buy protective masks and handwashing stations for a school for children with disabilities and another for deaf students. Covid-19 restrictions closed both St Anthony’s School for the Deaf, Bungoma County, and Nalondo CBM Special National Secondary School for the Physical...

1/1 A GRIEVING Taunton family say they don't think they will ever recover from the sudden death of a homeless man. Wesley Keirle, 43, who had been a familiar face in the town for several years, died on January 26. A Go Fund Me appeal to help meet Wes's funeral costs has already raised £1,441. His sister Hannah Parsons said the death of "our beautiful Wesley", who was educated at The Castle School, has "impacted our lives in a way I don't think we will ever recover from". She added: "My parents are going through something they could never have prepared themselves for...

'BE a light in the darkness' is this year's theme for Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD).

A WILDLIFE filmmaker and author has said he is ‘indebted’ to his old teachers at the Castle School in Thornbury. Ben Macdonald, has travelled all over the world making documentaries, and says the school played a big role in fostering his ambitions. The 32-year-old has worked on the likes of Springwatch, and the Sir David Attenborough-narrated shows The Hunt and Our Planet. His interest in nature began when collecting butterflies as a pupil at St Michael’s Primary School in Winterbourne, and regular trips to Slimbridge Wetland Centre soon followed. “My parents were always ver...

7 Jan 2021 POINTS WELL MADE: Matthew Forster and Veto Vepkhvadze who took first prize in the Debating Matters competition SIXTH formers presented the perfect argument to win a national debating competition which was held for the first time online. Barnard Castle School students Matthew Forster and Vato Vepkhvadze took the top prize in a competition organised by the charity Battle of Ideas (BOI), which was established to advance education by providing forums for discussion and debate. Vato, a 16-year-old HMC scholarship programme student from Georgia, also won the individual crown at the D...