An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. We were bowled over by the number of lovely gardens that we saw while judging our annual Best Front Garden competition, including some that didn’t enter this year but have been persuaded to enter next year! As the number and standard of gardens increases each year so does
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Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) has posted its best ever GCSE outcomes, marking a significant improvement in comparison with last year. Sixty-eight percent of students achieved 5A*-C including English and maths (54 percent last year). The new measure of ‘basics’ (English and maths A*-C combined) was achieved by 69 percent of students. English GCSE saw an impressive 82 percent of
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An update from Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group. August Workday Our task for our August workday was to scythe Bowsland Meadow. And while we may not have all been as glossy as a certain actor in a certain period drama, we at least know how to use a scythe properly! Sorry Aiden. Although you may
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By Jim Aitken, community liaison officer at Alun Griffiths Ltd. Bradley Stoke Way It is with much frustration that we have had a further delay in the widening works for the nearside lane of Bradley Stoke Way (BSW) towards Aztec West Roundabout, previously reported in the August BSJ magazine. The uncharted gas main discovered due to testing once Bristol Water
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Post Office Limited has announced that the post office branch within the Tesco Express store at Bradley Pavilions, Pear Tree Road is to be modernised into what it calls a ‘main style’ branch. To allow work to be carried out, the branch will close on Wednesday 7th September at 5.30pm and reopen on Monday 26th September at 1pm. Any unforeseen schedule
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It has been another strong year for Post-16 outcomes at Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS). A-level students have averaged 32 points (grade C), which the school says is slightly above the results for the last two years. Forty-two percent of all grades awarded at A-level were A*-B (51 percent last year) and there was a 99.5 percent overall pass rate.
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The installation of temporary traffic lights at Great Stoke Roundabout (a.k.a. Rabbit Roundabout) at the bottom of Bradley Stoke Way (BSW) for a few days in the second week of August caused chaos for motorists in the local area, jamming up routes into and out of Bradley Stoke, Winterbourne and Stoke Gifford. The lights were installed to facilitate the closure
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By Nick Nelson, Group Chair, 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group. We are extremely lucky at 1st Bradley Stoke Scouts to have a Group Scout Leader who has over forty years’ experience of Scouting and is still as enthusiastic as ever. Clive Mason has been a driving force behind our Scout Group and has served as our Chair and as our
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Bradley Stoke Town Council has finally reached a decision on the future of the hard court area and some of the surrounding grounds at its Brook Way Activity Centre, more than two years after it conducted a public consultation on the future of the site. The matter was tabled for discussion at July’s meeting of Full Council after mayor Cllr
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By Claire Bruford, anti-bullying co-ordinator. At Stoke Lodge Primary School we work very hard to ensure that all children feel safe, happy and are included. At the beginning of the year we became members of the Bullying Intervention Group (BIG) and as part of that, worked towards the BIG Award, which is an award for excellence in bullying intervention. This award
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