Please come down to the Jazz Festival for 10am on Saturday 3rd May to support Balcajazz. 10am start, performers to arrive at 9.30 am.

Congratulations to the Boys Year 11 Football team have won the district cup final on penalties. All the boys played well but a special mention for Leo Norton with a man of the match performance and two outstanding saves in the shootout. Balcarras will now play Rednock School in the County...

Earlier this term, we took 189 students to the wonderful castles of Berkeley and Chepstow. At Berkeley, they enjoyed an expert-led tour, while at Chepstow, they were challenged to apply their historical skills and knowledge to identify and explain the use of various castle features. Since the trip...

The schools Eco club have been planting trees.

The Balcarras YE teams were successful again at the regional finals

The Fair is arriving next Thursday and will be available for students and staff to browse and purchase on Friday 28th in the library during lunch. We have the crates until Tuesday 8th.   We had a great success last year! Books are priced a little lower or equal to a regular booksto...

Balcarras went through its first full inspection in over 10 years this week. Please see a letter sent from the headteacher to parents below. The school would like to thank the lead inspector and the inspection team for the way they conducted the inspection.

On Thursday the Department for Education published the final validated GCSE results for 2024. Balcarras achieved a Progress 8 Score of +0.83. This was the highest in the school’s history and places us in the top 5% of all schools nationally for progress. Progress 8 is a way of measuring the...

Balcarras has been rated 191st in the list of the top 200 schools in the country for sport as ranked by the Schools Sports Magazine. The annual league table is published in January and rates school sport participation across 20 different sports and well over 100 different competitions. This put...