Construction of the new Post-16 (Sixth Form) Centre at Bradley Stoke Community School is nearing completion and the facility is due to open its doors to students for the first time at 8:30am on Thursday 2nd September. Governors of the school were recently given a tour of the new building and Cllr Jon Williams has kindly provided some exclusive photos
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Ofsted has praised St Mary’s RC Primary School for sustaining its performance, which was rated “outstanding” at its last full inspection in March 2007. In a letter to parents, the government body says it will not be carrying out a further inspection until 1st September 2011 at the earliest. The decision is based on a number of factors that include
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Jon Barr, headteacher at Meadowbrook Primary School in Bradley Stoke, is today quoted by a local paper as praising the benefits of boycotting SATs (national tests) for Year 6 children. According to the Bristol Evening Post, 63% of eligible schools in South Gloucestershire failed to submit test results for 2010 to the Department for Education. The boycotts were backed by
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Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) has officially registered its interest in becoming an academy, according to information released by the Government following a Freedom of Information (FOI) request. The move could lead to BSCS receiving its funding directly from the Government (instead of South Gloucestershire Council) and would give the school more control over the pay and conditions of staff
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Bradley Stoke’s Wheatfield Primary School has been rated “good” by Ofsted inspectors, who visited the school last month. The team of five inspectors observed a total of 25 lessons at the 399-pupil school, which is located in Wheatfield Drive, off Brook Way. The inspectors summarised their findings as follows: “Wheatfield is a good school. Outcomes for pupils have been sustained
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Students at Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) are to stage a quiz night on Friday 25th June to raise funds for their World Challenge project, which will see a group of year 10 & 11 students travel to South India in Summer 2011. World Challenge aims to provide educational expeditions to the developing world which teach life skills and expand
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The Bristol Evening Post is quoting Dave Baker, head of Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS), as saying he is “interested in the idea of [the school] becoming an academy”. The news follows the announcement in yesterday’s Queen’s Speech of plans to take thousands more schools out of local authority control, enabling them to decide how to spend their own budgets.
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A Bradley Stoke woman has gained a first class honours degree from the Open University (OU), nine years after depression forced her to quit her studies at Plymouth University. Michelle Morton, a teaching assistant at St Bonaventure’s school, Bishopston,was awarded her degree at a ceremony in Torquay on Saturday 17th April. She says her BSc in Social Sciences will now
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The disruption of air travel caused by the eruption of a volcano in Iceland is causing a headache for a Bradley Stoke school. Baileys Court Primary School reports that at least two members of staff are stuck abroad with no chance of a flight home by Monday (when the new school term starts). Parents and children have been told not
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The Government’s Children’s Secretary Ed Balls has announced that Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) is to be given an additional £40,000 p.a. to help other schools in the area improve their record on pupil behaviour. The school has been named as one of just 20 ‘Lead Behaviour Schools’ in the country that are said to have displayed “excellent practice in
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