West of England mayor Dan Norris visited Stoke Gifford in early September to formally open a new £7 million learning centre at South Gloucestershire and Stroud College’s WISE Campus. The building is home to a variety of science, technology, engineering, art and media provision…
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Students at Stoke Gifford’s Abbeywood Community School have once again registered “strong” outcomes in their GCSE assessments. A spokesperson said: “Students have achieved incredibly well across the full range of GCSE and Level 2 qualifications; outcomes have been strong but so has the progress of our students from their starting points.”
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Abbeywood Community School is celebrating strong performances across both A-Levels and vocational qualifications, with some outstanding individual performances. Students have secured places to study at many of the top universities in the country, including Oxford University, Imperial College London, Exeter University and Bristol University.
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Some of the teachers at Little Stoke Primary School have been taking part in teachers’ reading groups organised by the Open University and UK Literacy Association. These groups encourage teachers to make changes to their practice based on the Teachers as Readers research.
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After a year-and-a-half of lockdowns and temporary suspensions, we are at last hopeful that things are on the way up, and we can look forward to a resumption of the full life of the school. At St Michael’s we are very proud of our cultural and sporting activities, which have been severely curtailed in recent times.
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A Stoke Gifford college that provides specialist education for 14 to 18 year-olds in the engineering and environmental technology sectors looks set to join the Olympus Academy Trust after running into academic and financial difficulties.
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Primary schools in Stoke Gifford and Little Stoke are to benefit from a £2.6 million package of maintenance and improvement works that has recently been agreed by South Gloucestershire Council. The money will be spent on re-roofing, replacing high-level windowsills and flat roof repairs.
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The children at Little Stoke Primary School have enjoyed a successful return following the reopening to all pupils on 8th March. Staff at the school have been impressed by the learning that took place during lockdown and the amazing attitude with which the children have returned to school.
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A school in Stoke Gifford has been judged to have the best club in the South West in the annual Kellogg’s Breakfast Club Awards. Abbeywood Community School has received a cash prize of £1,000 to spend on its breakfast club as well as a special party pack for the students to celebrate in the coming months.
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Stoke Gifford’s Abbeywood Community School reports that this year’s Year 11 students have registered “outstanding” GCSE results. As in all schools, the grades awarded have been based on teacher assessments. This follows a government decision to abandon Ofqual’s proposed algorithm-based approach.
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