Construction of the new post-16 (sixth form) centre at Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) is now underway, with completion expected by May next year. Contractors Thomas Vale Construction moved onto the site just days after the school term finished at the end of July and they have now fenced off an area at the southern end of the existing school
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Pupils at Bradley Stoke’s Holy Trinity Primary School achieved some of the best marks in the country in recent Key Stage 2 (KS2) tests. All Year 6 pupils at the school achieved at least a ‘Level 4’ grade in each of the three subjects tested (English, maths and science), leading to an overall AGG (aggregate) score of 300. The maximum
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Bradley Stoke Community School has had its funding application for a post-16 centre approved by the Learning and Skills Council. Plans for a two-storey sixth form centre, dance studio/gym and single-storey changing rooms were submitted to South Gloucestershire Council in July 2008 and received approval from planning officials in September 2008. Writing in today’s school newsletter, headteacher Dave Baker says:
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A video report made by students from Bradley Stoke Community School has been published on the BBC News website as part of the corporation’s annual School Report project. The BBC runs School Report so that young people from across the UK have the chance to make their own news to real deadlines and broadcast it to real audiences. Today is
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Letters detailing offers of secondary school places for admission in September 2009 have been posted today (using 2nd class mail) by South Gloucestershire Council. Parents/carers who applied online will be able to view the results on the Internet from “late afternoon” today, provided they can remember their username and password (chosen at the time of application). Bradley Stoke Community School
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Planners at South Gloucestershire Council have gven the go ahead for a second temporary classroom block to be erected at Bradley Stoke’s Baileys Court Primary School. The planning application, lodged in December 2008, is for an Elliot modular building configured to host two classrooms. The new block will be located on a section of playing field on the Baileys Court
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To help celebrate its success at being designated a specialist Performing Arts and Language College, Bradley Stoke Community School hosted a European Christmas Market on Tuesday Evening. The school’s aims of providing an educational experience that engages students, developing independence and making a positive contribution to the wider community were all evident at this event. There was a wide range
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Bradley Stoke’s Baileys Court Primary School has been closed today after being hit by a sickness bug. A message placed on the school’s website yesterday (Thursday) states that the closure is being made to “[contain a] widespread sickness bug amongst the children … and avoid further infection.” A spokesperson at South Gloucestershire Council told The Journal that representatives of the
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South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has opened a public consultation on proposed traffic management measures around Wheatfield Primary School in Wheatfield Drive, Bradley Stoke. The proposals address a number of issues highlighted for attention in the school’s recently-produced Travel Plan. Proposed measures include the installation of dropped kerbs, bollards to reduce cycle speeds on approaches to road crossings, improvements to a
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Plans for extensions to Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) have received approval from South Gloucestershire Council. The plans include a new sixth form centre (A) at the south-western end of the school’s curved frontage plus the addition of a dance studio (B) and further changing rooms (C) at the rear and side of the existing sports hall. Approval of the
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