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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Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) says it remains on track to convert to an academy on 1st January 2012, thanks to hard work by governors over recent months. Once converted, the school will be run by an academy trust instead of the local education authority, and governors have chosen to call this the ‘Olympus Academy Trust’, a name said to
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[Advertising Feature] After 13 years of running her successful Bradley Stoke Kumon Study Centre on Mondays and Thursdays after school, local instructor Sarah Nutchey is to open a new class on Saturday mornings. After talking to local parents who work full time, and find it difficult to bring their children along after school, she has responded to the demand to
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