Ofsted has confirmed Wheatfield Primary’s standing as a ‘good’ school following a visit by inspectors in November 2022. In his report, the lead inspector concludes that Wheatfield “continues to be a good school” where children are “curious and keen to learn” and “participate fully in school life”. Pupils at the school “feel valued and safe”, he adds.
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Parents and carers of children attending schools in Bradley Stoke have been given “advance notice” that many of the educational establishments are likely to only be able to provide a “very limited service” on the days of several planned teachers’ strikes in February and March.
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Staff and parents of children at a local primary school are celebrating the award of a ‘good’ Ofsted grading following a 6-year period during which the setting was deemed to be in need of improvement. Inspectors who visited the school last November have rated it ‘good’ in all five categories of assessment, marking a big step forward from the previous inspection in January 2019.
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Children from Bradley Stoke Community School Primary Phase enjoyed their very own First West of England bus for the morning when they took a mystery roundtrip to Bristol and back. The four- and five-year-olds, some of whom had never been on a bus before, had lots of fun singing and learning with their teachers. The trip linked in with their ‘journeys and transport’ learning topic.
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Bradley Stoke Community School has praised the “exceptional” performances of its students in the first set of external GCSE examinations since 2019. The proportion of students achieving both English and Maths at Grade 4 or above was 81 percent (compared to 82 percent in 2019).
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Students at Bradley Stoke Community School are celebrating the results of their Post-16 examinations following two years of disruption due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The school reports that over 31 percent of all grades achieved were A*- A and 58 percent were A*- B, which is “in line with the best ever results at the school”.
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The Kumon Bradley Stoke Study Centre is celebrating a hat-trick of awards, with star student James Smith receiving the prestigious ‘Completion Award’, Instructor Sarah Nutchey receiving a ‘Nurturing Completers’ award and the centre itself being recognised as one of the top 30 Maths and English Kumon centres in Europe and Africa.
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The Olympus Academy Trust is consulting on proposed changes to admission arrangements for some of its schools with effect from September 2023. If approved, the changes would see the Reception intake of Stoke Lodge Primary School being halved and the minimum academic criteria for entry to the trust’s Post-16 programme being raised by one GCSE grade.
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Wheatfield Primary School held one of its ‘Grounds Days’ on Saturday 6th November, after having to take a break for the last 18 months due to the pandemic. Sixty-six people came together, made up of children, parents, staff and governors, to help improve and maintain the school grounds.
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Students at Bradley Stoke Community School have overcome the numerous challenges thrown up by the coronavirus pandemic to register another “strong set” of GCSE results, which are said to be “broadly in line” with previous years’ outcomes for attainment and progress.
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