Staff and parents of children at a local primary school are celebrating the award of a ‘good’ Ofsted grading following a 6-year period during which the setting was deemed to be in need of improvement. Inspectors who visited the school last November have rated it ‘good’ in all five categories of assessment, marking a big step forward from the previous inspection in January 2019.
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The Olympus Academy Trust is consulting on proposed changes to admission arrangements for some of its schools with effect from September 2023. If approved, the changes would see the Reception intake of Stoke Lodge Primary School being halved and the minimum academic criteria for entry to the trust’s Post-16 programme being raised by one GCSE grade.
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A local primary school previously deemed in need of improvement has been praised by an Ofsted inspector for “taking effective action to provide education” during the coronavirus pandemic. However, the modified format of a recent inspection did not allow an improved Ofsted rating to be awarded.
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Parents, pupils and staff at Stoke Lodge Primary School have spent some of their free time sprucing up the school’s grounds on two weekend workdays organised by the parent forum. A ‘spring clean up’ was held on Saturday 27th April, when the volunteers, armed with gardening tools, set about tidying up areas around the school that were looking a little
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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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Police are asking for help to identify a man who has been following women and exposing himself to them in the Stoke Lodge and Little Stoke areas of north Bristol. The appeal comes after three such incidents were reported to police this week. The first was reported by a 22-year-old woman. It happened at about 3.40pm on Wednesday 19th December
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A crowd of over a hundred parents, staff and pupils gathered in the grounds of Stoke Lodge Primary School on Friday 29th June to witness the unveiling of a bench in memory of Bailey Cooper, a former pupil who sadly passed away last Christmas Eve following a brave 15-month battle with cancer. Bailey, who was nine years old when he
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No fewer than three primary schools in the local area have welcomed new headteachers this year. Wheatfield Primary School, Holy Trinity Primary and Stoke Lodge Primary all enter a new chapter of leadership, and we got in touch with them to find out a little more about their new heads. Philip Winterburn is the new headteacher for Wheatfield Primary. He
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Pupils at Stoke Lodge Primary School have taken part in a special event to support the family of a pupil, eight year old Bailey Cooper, who recently underwent nearly four months of hospital treatment for a form of cancer. Bailey was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in October last year. He endured four rounds of chemotherapy and steroid treatment at Bristol
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Staff and pupils at Stoke Lodge Primary School took part in a special assembly on Friday 9th September to mark joining the Olympus Academy Trust (OAT). Also attending the event was Dave Baker, CEO of the trust, who welcomed everyone to their “new school family”. Following a brief dialogue with the pupils about the origin of the trust’s name (it
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