A surge in applications for September 2013 entry at Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) has left scores of parents frustrated at not being able to get their children into the town’s only secondary school. The school has been oversubscribed in almost every year since it opened in 2005, resulting in many local children having to travel to centres in neighbouring
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Ofsted has praised Bradley Stoke’s Wheatfield Primary School for sustaining its performance, which was rated “good” at its last full inspection in May 2010. In a letter to parents, the government body says it will not be carrying out a further full inspection until summer 2014 at the earliest. The decision is based on a number of factors that include
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Pupils at Bradley Stoke Community School have been engaged in numerous extracurricular activities in this academic year, and one of these has involved volunteering with the Forest of Avon Trust. A group of Year 9 students from the school went into the woodlands near Wick, just before their Christmas school holidays, in order to help the organisation with its work.
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Pupils at Bradley Stoke’s Wheatfield Primary School recently celebrated the official opening of a Scrapstore PlayPod in their playground. Operating under the motto “making wastethings playthings”, PlayPod is a holistic process that works with the entire school community to change both the human and physical play environment, transforming play at lunchtimes. The purpose built, walk-in structure contains a vast collection
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Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) is today celebrating another set of good GCSE grades – obtained by the third year of students to pass through the school. Once again, there were some stunning individual performances – with Harisson (Sonny) Chiba leading the way with 13A* and 2A grades. The remarkable achievements by the highest performing students were supported by many
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The headteacher of Bradley Stoke Community School says he is pleased with the school’s first-ever set of A-level results announced today. Dave Baker, Executive Headteacher, was at the school’s Post Sixteen Centre at 9am this morning to welcome students arriving to collect their results envelopes. A total of 103 candidates were entered for 197 exams and 15% of the entries
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Ofsted has rated ICT teaching and achievement at Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) “good” in the school’s first inspection since converting to academy status on 1st January. An inspector who visited the school for the subject-specific assessment in late February concludes in his report that levels of achievement, quality of teaching, quality of the curriculum and effectiveness of management are
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Stoke Gifford’s Abbeywood Community School, recently put into ‘special measures’ by Ofsted, looks set to become an academy within the same trust that has operated Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) since the beginning of the year. Dave Baker, headteacher at BSCS, has been running Abbeywood since Ann Duff, the previous head, left suddenly in October last year. Since taking the
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Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) has announced the creation of an ‘Associate Headteacher’ role, to ensure that there is clear leadership in the school on a day-to-day basis while Executive Headteacher Dave Baker (pictured) splits his time between BSCS and the struggling Abbeywood Community School in Stoke Gifford. Mr Baker took on the leadership of Abbeywood in early October, after
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Dave Baker, headteacher at Bradley Stoke Community School, is to take on the leadership of a second school in the North Bristol area. Following an announcement on Monday 3rd October that Abbeywood Community School’s headteacher Ann Duff had resigned from her post with immediate effect “for personal reasons”, Mr Baker has now been appointed Executive Headteacher of both schools for
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