Dave Baker, Headteacher of Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS), has successfully completed a charity swim that saw him cover the height of Everest (8,848 metres or 354 lengths of a swimming pool) in a little over three and a half hours. The remarkable feat, in aid of the school’s minibus fund, was performed at Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre on Sport
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Dave Baker, headteacher of Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS), says the school is facing “budgetary difficulties” for the coming financial year. In the latest BSCS newsletter, Mr Baker writes: We are facing budgetary difficulties, as many other schools are, for the coming financial year and are looking carefully at where we can save and, in some cases, change the way
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Bradley Stoke Community School has begun the search for a teacher to head up its new post-16 (sixth form) centre, which is due to open in September. The ‘Director of Post 16 (Assistant Headteacher)’ position will be remunerated at the L11 – L15 level on the teachers’ pay scale, corresponding to a salary between £46,944 and £51,710. Construction of the
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Students at Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) have been paying tribute to year 9 pupil Ryan Abrahams, who passed away last Tuesday. Ryan, who was born with a rare muscular disorder and relied on a motorized wheelchair to get around, was active in a number of sports (including wheelchair football and table top cricket) and was awarded the South Gloucestershire
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Prospective students of Bradley Stoke’s new post-16 (sixth form) centre have aired their views on policies they would like to see enforced when the facility opens in September. Feedback from a ‘post-16 consultation exercise’ conducted amongst year 11 students and staff at Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) outlines opinions on: dress code rules for the centre’s social area attendance regulations
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Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) has been classed as “outstanding” by Ofsted inspectors, who visited the school three weeks ago. The inspectors’ report praises the high standard of leadership and teaching at the school and says that pupils’ achievements are above average: This is an outstanding school. Its real strength lies in its inclusive and welcoming ethos. The headteacher has
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Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) was the subject of an Ofsted inspection last week and is currently awaiting the official report. Headmaster Dave Baker has told parents that: “the overall outcome was as positive as it could have been, which will validate what we have been doing”. The inspectors are said to have been very complimentary about the students and
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The headteacher of Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS), Dave Baker, has revealed that he has received a number of complaints about the behaviour of BSCS students at the Willow Brook shopping centre. Tesco has reportedly threatened to ban all students wearing school uniform from its store at the centre. Parents and carers have been asked to discuss the situation with
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Students looking to embark upon courses at Bradley Stoke Community School’s (BSCS) new sixth form, due to open in September next year, have been asked to indicate their likely subject choices. Questionnaires distributed at last week’s post-16 open evening were due to be handed in today, to help the school plan the range of courses to be offered. A provisional
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Bradley Stoke Community School is to hold a ‘post-16 open evening’ this week to inform parents and carers of the courses that it plans to offer at the school’s new sixth form centre. Pupils currently in year 11 (the school’s first intake) will be eligible to continue their studies at the new centre when it opens its doors in September
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