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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 - 06/03/26
Update from the Head - 6th March 2026
Welcome to the latest weekly update. It has been a beautiful week at Balcarras—the sun has shone every day, the spring flowers are gradually making their presence felt and all sorts of fun things have been going on. Balcarras Win Bronze Medal at the England National School Squash Finals...Read Full Story - 05/03/26
- 05/03/26
- 05/03/26
Balcarras KS4 Squash Team Claims Bronze at National Schools Championships
Balcarras delivered an outstanding performance at the National Schools Squash Championships, finishing 3rd in the country at the finals held at Edgbaston Priory Club in Birmingham. The team competed against the strongest school sides in the country and showed excellent determi...Read Full Story - 04/03/26
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Buddy’s Birthday Bash
It's Buddy's 3rd Birthday on Friday 13th March and we are celebrating with Hot Dogs! All proceeds from this will go to 2 Wish, a bereavement charity who work with people who are impacted by the sudden death of a young person. Payment on Scopay. Please pre-order by Mond...Read Full Story - 04/03/26
Trust Art Gallery Goes Live!
The Balcarras Trust’s Enrichment and Engagement Working Party has established an Art Gallery to showcase work from across the Trust’s three schools. The Gallery is hosted on the Balcarras Trust’s website here: https://www.thebalcarrastrust.co.uk/page/?title=EXHIBITION+%26amp%3B...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