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- 19/04/24
Year 7 intake for September
All the information for the current Year 6/ Year 7 intake for September can be found by clicking here including the pre-admission form. Taster Day for Year 6 pupils - Wednesday 3rd July 2024 Timings for the day will be 8.50am - 3.20pm.Read Full Story - 01/07/24
***Activities Week 2024***
For all information about activities week please click here.Read Full Story - 28/06/24
Open Week 2024
Open Week will run from Monday 16th September - Thursday 19th September 2024. School tours will run at 9.15 am each morning and Open Evening will take place on Thursday 19th September from 6-8pm with a Headteacher address at 6pm and 7pm. There is no requirement to book for either event...Read Full Story - 01/07/24
SCINTILATING RUN TO THE NATIONAL FINALS SEES BALCARRAS EMERGE AS TOP RANKED STATE SCHOOL IN THE COUNTRY
After an unbeaten regional campaign, the U18 boys tennis squad travelled to Nottingham for the National Tennis Championship Finals. The finals consisted of the 16 best schools from each region of England and Scotland. In our first match we lost to the eventual winners; Reeds School team. A brilli...Read Full Story - 30/06/24
Staff football success
Balcarras staff win North Gloucestershire football tournament.Read Full Story - 28/06/24
Author Visit
On Friday 28th June, we were delighted to welcome author Ben Davis to Balcarras. Ben is the author of The Soup Movement, one of the books on the Balcarras Canon. Years 7 and 8 enjoyed hearing about Ben's books and writing process and listening to extracts. In the Q&A session, students a...Read Full Story - 27/06/24
The 'pitch' competition
Balcarras pupils create an advertising campaign in a national competitionRead Full Story - 27/06/24
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Year 9 visits to GCHQ
As part of STEM pupils got to go to GCHQ to learn a bit more about careers in programmingRead Full Story - 27/06/24
BALCARRAS WIN AGAIN!
Tuesday afternoon saw yet more sporting success for Balcarras as the Year 7 Girls Rounders Team were crowned District Champions on home turf at Balcarras. The girls played brilliantly throughout the tournament and emerged successful against Pittville in the final. Well done to everyone who compet...Read Full Story - 26/06/24
- 26/06/24
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Yr 10 Geographers take on Snowdonia
The geography Dept took Year 10 pupils for a weekend of adventure and Geography in Snowdonia or Eryri National ParkRead Full Story - 24/06/24
BALCARRAS ON TENTERHOOKS AS NATIONAL FINALS AWAIT OUR SPORTING TEAMS
Over the next three weeks Balcarras will compete in two National Finals. The first occurs this week when our Under 18 Boys Tennis Team compete in the National Schools Tennis Finals in Nottingham. We wish our team all the very best as they take on 14 private schools and 1 state school at the National...Read Full Story - 24/06/24
BRILLIANT BALCARRAS DOMINATE 2024 DISTRICT ATHLETICS
It has been an absolutely superb Athletics season for Balcarras. After our stunning performance in 2023 hopes were high that we could dominate again. Well, our teams did not disappoint. We won 4 of the 6 events and came runners up in the remaining two. Here are the results: Year 7 Girls...Read Full Story - 19/06/24
Year 7 Fundraising
This week Year 7 took a couple of lessons to fund raise for a national charityRead Full Story - 18/06/24
NEW HOUSE CAPTAINS OFFICALLY UNVEILED
On Wednesday 5th June the school officially appointed the 2024-25 House Captains in a ceremony presided over by Mr Burke. All of the House Captains were present alongside their parents and members of the senior staff, the House staff and the School Dog Buddy! Mr Burke gave a short speech...Read Full Story