An update from Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke in Bloom (BSiB). This month (June), we have concentrated our efforts on Palmers Corner (corner of Palmers Leaze and Webbs Wood Road). The plants in front of the wall now form an official flower bed, complete with edging, and most of the remaining bramble has been removed from the new lawn. The
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Pupils from Baileys Court Primary School took part in bike rides to Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) and Abbeywood Community School on Monday 15th June to help them learn the cycle routes ahead of the transition to secondary education in September. Transition rides aim to build confidence and improve riding skills so pupils can travel independently to school. The rides
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Civil engineering company Skanska has announced that a section of Beacon Lane, which links Bradley Stoke with Winterbourne, is to close for around six weeks from the middle of July, to enable vital bridge repair works to be carried out on behalf of Highways England. The work on the Winterbourne Lane underbridge, which carries the M4 motorway over the B4057/Beacon
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For many years pupils at Holy Family Catholic Primary School in Stoke Lodge have had the benefit of learning in partnership with volunteers from local businesses. The Ablaze project provides reading and number buddies for children in Key Stage 2. Workers from Airbus visit the school each week with the aim of improving pupils’ attainment and developing self-esteem. Pupils from a number
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By Andy Ward, Bradley Stoke Carnival Committee Things are going well with the Carnival Committee’s preparations for this year’s Bradley Stoke Carnival which takes place on Saturday 29th August. The parade commences at 11am (route to be confirmed) and arrives at the Jubilee Green on Savages Wood Road at around 12pm. Good weather would help, so please do keep your
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Pupils at Stoke Lodge Primary School have recently taken part in the ‘Game of Chance’, a fun, game show style quiz about road safety and sustainable travel. Primary school pupils aged between 7 and 11 have been playing the quiz, which is running in a number of primary schools throughout South Gloucestershire this week. The Game of Chance is an exciting, fun
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Bradley Stoke Way to be closed to traffic between 6am and 2pm for cycling stage of the event. Swimmers, runners and cyclists are being invited to take part in the first community-based triathlon event to be staged in Bradley Stoke. The Active Triathlon is taking place on Sunday 30th August 2015 and is expected to attract participants from all over
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Over the spring bank holiday weekend, around a hundred members of the 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group attended the Brunel District Jamboree at Woodhouse Park Activity Centre near Almondsbury. This three day camp involved groups from across the district, so it was a real opportunity to get to know the wider Scouting family for both the young people and their
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Two kind-hearted local ladies have recently had their long locks lopped so they could donate hair to a charity that provides real-hair wigs to children suffering from cancer and other serious illnesses. The off-cuts, which need to be at least 17cm (7 inches) long in order to be useful for wig-making, have been sent to the Little Princess Trust,
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An update from Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group. Swans and cygnets By now we’re sure you all know that our mute swans Bradley & Brooke have, from their seven eggs, hatched three cygnets! We’re rather chuffed with them – and with the ducklings, grebe and moorhen chicks that can be seen at the lake. We had made
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