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- 03/03/26
Balcarras is turning 40!
March 2026 Dear Parent/Guardian As a valued member of the Balcarras School community, I’m excited to invite you to participate in our 40th Anniversary Celebrations taking place on 25th-26th March 2026. This is a powerful opportunity for our entire community including current an...Read Full Story - 03/03/26
Balcarras Invincibles Storm District Netball
On Monday afternoon the Year 9 Balcarras team won every game on the way to winning the Cheltenham District Schools Netball Championships. After dominating their group the girls beat Cleeve in the semi final and Cheltenham Ladies College in the final. Well done to them!Read Full Story - 02/03/26
- 27/02/26
- 27/02/26
Update from the Head - 27th Feb
Dear Parents, Welcome back to term four of the school year. I hope you had a nice half term. It has been a sombre start to the term here at Balcarras following the very upsetting news the school community received during half term. We have done everything we can to support our youngsters through...Read Full Story - 27/02/26
Life on Mars
With the Easter holidays now fast approaching, it is perhaps no surprise that the CEP challenges (Cheltenham Educational Partnership) are now coming thick and fast and earlier this week it was the turn of some of our Y10 students who this year are taking part in this year's Mars Rover...Read Full Story - 25/02/26
- 25/02/26
Places of worship visit
Today we took half of year 8 to Birmingham for a ‘places of Worship’ visit. We went to the Guru Granth Sahib Gurdwara and got to experience how Sikh’s worship and have a tour and extremely interesting talk from one of the experts there on the role of the Gurdwara in Sikh life and i...Read Full Story - 23/02/26
80s Bingo Night Proves a Big Hit
Young enterprise teams lay on a successful Bingo nightRead Full Story - 13/02/26
Update from the Head - 13th Feb 2026
It is a nice feeling to reach half term. It has only been a six-week term but it has been high energy and fast paced. I get the impression that everyone needs a bit of a break. At the start of the week, I received the final version of our 40th Celebration logo which has been designed by Balcarr...Read Full Story - 13/02/26
- 13/02/26
Chess Team Excel at Gloucestershire Championships
Mr Godfrey and Mr Rothwell took the Balcarras Chess Team to the Gloucestershire Championships in Bristol. We took an A and B Team and they both did very well. We didn’t win but our team is very young and we are building for the future. Well done to everyone involved. Here is the final ta...Read Full Story - 12/02/26
- 10/02/26
National School Attendance award
The school has again been awarded an FFT national attendance award for our attendance in the autumn term. We are again in the top 10% nationally.Read Full Story - 07/02/26
National Apprenticeship Week | 9–15 February 2026
National Apprenticeship Week | 9–15 February 2026Read Full Story - 06/02/26
Update from the Head - 6th Feb 2026
We have crossed over the halfway point of the school year. Today marks the end of the 20th school week—19 to go, not that I’m counting! I spent quite a bit of time this week just walking the school and chatting to pupils. I have to say they are such a friendly and polite group of yo...Read Full Story - 06/02/26
School Funding: The Work of F40
I am a member of the Gloucestershire Schools Forum so I receive all of the latest updates on school funding. I am afraid it is rarely good news. This week I received an update on the work of the F40 Campaign Group of which Gloucestershire is a member. Our county receives £9086.75 per mainst...Read Full Story - 06/02/26
House Languages
On Thursday 5th February, House Languages made a comeback! Over 80 students took part representing their house and merged their drama and language skills. Each house was given a theme and had to create a performance based on this. The themes were: at the airport, in the tourist informatio...Read Full Story - 05/02/26
Big Tea Party
☕ 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐓𝐞𝐚 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲 – 𝐓𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐀𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐒𝐨𝐨𝐧! ☕ We’re delighted to announce that tickets for our Big Tea Party, co-hosted with Balcarras School, will be available to collect 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟖 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲. 📍 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: Char...Read Full Story - 04/02/26
Dazzling performance sees Balcarras reach National Final.
KS4 boys squash team through to the National Finals!Read Full Story