Students at Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) have recorded the school’s “best ever” Post-16 examination results. Seventy-one percent of all grades awarded at A-level were A*-C and 46 percent were A*-B (42 percent last year). Over 80 percent of the grades awarded for vocational qualifications were at the highest levels of Distinction and Distinction* (78 percent in 2016). Headteacher Steve
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Now entering its ninth year, Willow Brook Townswomen’s Guild is a group for women of all ages in and around Bradley Stoke who are interested in making new friends, discovering their local area, getting involved with a variety of local and national issues and, above all, having fun! Meetings take place monthly on a Tuesday evening and 2017’s fun-filled evening
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Young footballers from Bradley Stoke Youth FC (BSYFC) were given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take part as one of the seven teams in the team parade at The FA Community Shield 2017 supported by McDonald’s, on Sunday 6th August. The BSYFC players formed a guard of honour around the pitch at Wembley Stadium before Emirates FA Cup Winners Arsenal won
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Filton and Bradley Stoke MP Jack Lopresti writes: Next weekend, I will be running in the Great Bristol Half Marathon. Over the years I have run this half marathon several times, as well as the London Marathon, to raise money for charities such as Action for Children, Barnardo’s, Blesma, The Julian Trust and Great Western Air Ambulance Charity. This year I
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There’s no official date, so Journal editor Stephen Horton is left to speculate… By the time you read this, we will be into the third year of MetroBus roadworks in Bradley Stoke! When Alun Griffiths started their work in earnest on Monday 2nd September 2015, closing the Woodlands Lane junction for “an estimated 18 weeks”, we were told they planned
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An update from Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group. Swan ringing Although we have in previous years wanted to ring our cygnets, we never managed to find a time when both the birds were present or the ringer’s first baby wasn’t making an appearance (welcome to young Freddie). So we were rather excited that this year it
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The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and April UK are the latest local firms to support the West of England MS Therapy Centre, located in Wheatfield Drive, Bradley Stoke. The two firms recently released some of their employees from their regular working duties to spend time at the centre, helping out with some gardening, painting and decorating. Workers from the
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By Jim Aitken, community liaison officer at Alun Griffiths Ltd. All Alun Griffiths works at Aztec West, Bradley Stoke Way north of Patchway Brook Roundabout (near Aldi) and around Webbs Wood Roundabout are complete. South Gloucestershire Council continues to work in the vicinity of Aztec West on the separate (i.e. non-MetroBus) A38 southbound widening and roundabout improvement scheme. South of Patchway Brook
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Thirty-six Scouts and volunteer leaders from the 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group recently returned from an action-packed activity week in France. Staying at a campsite in Hauteville-sur-Mer, Normandy, they spent the week engaged in a number of activities, including climbing, rafting, kayaking, high ropes, crate stacking, archery and fencing. For many, this was the first time they had encountered the opportunity
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Local Rainbow leader Catherine Dixon writes: 1st Bradley Stoke Rainbows have had a busy summer term working on their ‘World’ badge finding out about the world around us. We made bug homes, explored the local area and made an edible wormery. As well as our usual weekly meetings, we have visited Brownsea Island, the birthplace of Scouting and Guiding, and
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