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From left, Barnard Castle School sixth formers Matthew Forster and Vato Vepkhvadze celebrate becoming national champions after winning the Debating Matters Championships SIXTH formers used the power of argument to win a national debating competition 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, al...

The Castle School Sixth Form site is among six places earmarked for new housing by South Gloucestershire Council (SGC). The local authority hopes to build hundreds of new homes on council-owned blocks of land, with Gloucester Road, Thornbury, among a list of sites revealed at this month’s cabinet meeting. In October SGC approved plans to move the sixth form to a new custom-built three-storey building at the Castle School’s main site on Park Road. Now, it has emerged that the council is looking to set up a housing delivery partnership with a neighbouring local authority. The poss...