South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has wasted no time in getting to work on the installation of a new modular classroom block at Meadowbrook Primary School in Bradley Stoke. Less than 24 hours after the summer term ended, a large crane today began hoisting two temporary classrooms into position on the school’s playground. As reported in The Journal earlier this year, the
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Bradley Stoke’s Meadowbrook Primary School is to install a number of prefabricated classrooms to enable it to accommodate an increased entry of reception class pupils in each of the next two academic years. The school’s governors have agreed to accommodate an additional 30 children in 2013/14 and 2014/15, after being approached by South Gloucestershire Council, which needs to cope with
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Children at a Bradley Stoke primary school will be seen more clearly this winter thanks to a donation of high-visibility vests from their local opticians. The Bradley Stoke branch of Specsavers in the Willow Brook Centre has donated 300 hi-visibility vests to pupils at Meadowbrook Primary School. The vests will help to ensure the safety of children when walking to
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A local estate agent has paid for portable “safe parking” signs to be introduced at a local primary school that suffers from irresponsible parking by parents dropping off or collecting children. CJ Hole Bradley Stoke Property Centre recently handed over the road safety signs to Meadowbrook Primary School, to encourage parents to park safely and refrain from parking on the
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Bradley Stoke’s Meadowbrook Primary School has been rated “good” by Ofsted inspectors, who visited the school last month. The team of five inspectors observed a total of 21 lessons at the 401-pupil school, which is located in Three Brooks Lane, off Savages Wood Road. The inspectors summarised their findings as follows: “Meadowbrook is a good primary school. As a consequence
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Jon Barr, headteacher at Meadowbrook Primary School in Bradley Stoke, is today quoted by a local paper as praising the benefits of boycotting SATs (national tests) for Year 6 children. According to the Bristol Evening Post, 63% of eligible schools in South Gloucestershire failed to submit test results for 2010 to the Department for Education. The boycotts were backed by
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Bradley Stoke’s Meadowbrook Primary School is the current ‘School of the Week’ on Bristol’s Star Radio. Writing in the latest newsletter, headteacher Jon Barr thanks Tom and Anna Wheatley for nominating the school. Read more: Star Radio – School of the Week
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A student at Bradley Stoke’s Meadowbrook Primary School has been awarded a runners-up prize in a competition to design a Christmas card for Avon and Somerset Police. Elliot Howard’s design will now be used for the cards sent out on behalf of one of the force’s district commanders. Read more: Avon and Somerset Police
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Bradley Stoke Police have introduced a ‘Three Strikes’ scheme to combat inconsiderate parking around the town’s Meadowbrook Primary School in Three Brooks Lane. The move comes after the problem was agreed as a priority issue at the Safer & Stronger Community Group meeting on 30th September. Neighbours of the school told the meeting that parents/carers dropping children off at the school
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