Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) is one of the most popular schools in South Gloucestershire and it consistently attracts significantly more 1st-preference applications for Year 7 entry than there are places available. Hence the perennial question we hear around this time of year as parents are making secondary school applications for their offspring: How close do you have to live
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Students at Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) are celebrating another exceptional set of GCSE results, with 16 percent of all grades awarded being at the highest possible grade 9 level and 26 percent at grade 7 or above. The school reports that this year’s results set a new ‘best ever’ standard, in terms of both progress and attainment. A number
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Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) students are celebrating another outstanding set of Post-16 results, with 32 percent of all grades awarded being at A*-A and 62 percent A*-B. Students have made more progress between their GCSE and Post-16 results than ever before, says the school. As always, there are some outstanding individual performances, including: Emma Draper who achieved 1A* (art)
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By Sharon Clark, headteacher at BSCS Primary Phase. On Wednesday 12th June, local pre-schoolers and their families were invited to a come on a bear hunt! The rain kindly stopped for long enough for us to hold our Teddy Bears’ Picnic in Savages Wood. The picnic had a ‘Going on a Bear Hunt’ theme with children creating their own ‘Bear
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Young pupils at a Bradley Stoke primary school have been gathering opinions on the hot topic of plastic waste pollution after finding rubbish all over their playing field and watching films of animals trapped in plastic waste. The children, in the age range 5 to 7, conducted investigations and proudly presented their findings at a special event held on the
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Schools minister Nick Gibb MP has paid a flying visit to several South Gloucestershire schools, including Patchway Community School, following criticism from a local academy trust leader that the district’s MPs aren’t doing enough to push for an increase in the level of school funding. The visit came just three weeks after Dave Baker, CEO of the Olympus Academy Trust
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On Saturday 16th March, Bradley Stoke’s Wheatfield Primary School opened its doors to ex-pupils, families and members of staff for an open day to celebrate the school’s 20th anniversary. Over 200 people attended the event and took the opportunity to explore the school and catch up with old friends and colleagues. The hall was decorated with pictures from throughout the
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Children from ‘Maples’ class (Year 3) at Bradley Stoke Community School have staged an exhibition at the town’s Willow Brook shopping centre to proudly show off all they have learnt about the local area through working on a ‘settlements’ theme. The exhibition, in the main shopping mall, ran over a number of days in the second week of February, with
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Senior staff at the Olympus Academy Trust have expressed disappointment at the latest Ofsted report for Stoke Lodge Primary School, which has been given an overall grading of ‘requires improvement’ for the second time in just over two years. Inspectors who visited the school in early January once again judged its Early Years provision to be ‘good’ but rated the
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Dave Baker, CEO of the Olympus Academy Trust (OAT) which incorporates Bradley Stoke Community School, Meadowbrook Primary School and several other secondary and primary schools in the wider local area has met with Jack Lopresti MP to express his concerns about a “lack of representation in regard to inadequate school funding in our area”. In a tweet made earlier this week,
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