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Abbeywood Community School: Post-16 examination results 2020.

Thursday 13th August 2020 SH (Editor)

Another “excellent” set of Post-16 results for Abbeywood

Year 13 students at Abbeywood Community School are celebrating an excellent set of Post-16 results, with over half of students receiving grades A*-B and over 20 percent receiving a top grade. The overall pass rate was 99 percent.

Photo of Steve Bennett of Strarchaser Industries talking to Year 1 pupils.

Wednesday 29th January 2020 SH (Editor)

Please sir, there’s a space rocket in the car park!

Friday 15th November 2019 is likely to stay in the memory of pupils at Little Stoke Primary School for quite some time – as the day they came within touching distance of a real-life space rocket! As part of a programme to promote science, engineering, technology and mathematics (STEM), the school had arranged a visit from Steve Bennett of UK

Photo of headteacher Dave Howe with students.

Friday 17th January 2020 SH (Editor)

Abbeywood judged ‘good in all areas’ by Ofsted

Staff, governors and students at Stoke Gifford’s Abbeywood Community School are celebrating after receiving an overall ‘good’ grading from Ofsted following an inspection which took place on 19th & 20th November 2019. The full ‘Section 5’ inspection judged the school ‘good’ in all five assessment areas, replicating the result of the school’s last full inspection in October 2014 following its

Photo of guests at the UWE engineering building topping-out ceremony.

Monday 14th October 2019 SH (Editor)

Topping out ceremony marks milestone of UWE Bristol’s new engineering building

The new multi-million pound engineering building at the University of the West of England’s (UWE’s) Frenchay campus has moved a step closer to completion. A ceremony was held on Tuesday 17th September to mark construction of the state-of-the-art facility reaching the highest point of the landmark building. Due to be completed in summer 2020, the building will house specialist digital

Photo of GCSE students with members of staff.

Monday 16th September 2019 SH (Editor)

Abbeywood GCSE results maintain upward trend

Abbeywood Community School (ACS) students are celebrating their GCSE results, which are said to show a strong trend of improvement for the school in all key performance measures. Overall, students have achieved better progress than the national average, with over two-thirds achieving a standard (grade 4) pass in both English and maths. In addition to the featured high-attaining students (see

Photo of some of the top-performing Post-16 students.

Thursday 5th September 2019 SH (Editor)

Abbeywood celebrates Post-16 success stories

This year’s Post-16 exam results at Abbeywood Community School saw almost one-third of all grades awarded being at A*-B, with 15 percent in the top A*-A band. The overall pass rate was 96 percent. Bursary students, in receipt of financial support, achieved an entire grade higher than last year, says the school. All students on the IT and business courses

Photo of team SOS pitching to a panel of judges.

Friday 2nd August 2019 SH (Editor)

Abbeywood sixth formers reach final of Community Apprentice challenge

A group of six Year 12 students who attend Abbeywood Community School have reached the final of the Envision Project which they have been working towards for the last eight months. The final took place on Wednesday 12th June at the Wills Memorial building in Bristol city centre, where the group were up against four other Bristol schools. Envision is

Photo of author Ali Smith with some of the Reception class children.

Tuesday 30th July 2019 SH (Editor)

Author’s pirate tales enthrall Reception pupils

Monday 10th June saw the children in Reception at St Michael’s Primary School, Stoke Gifford receive a visit from a children’s author as part of their topic: Just Keep Swimming. Self-published author, Ali Smith, is a teacher in the South of England who has always loved children’s picture books and wanted to write her own. She has now written 20

Photo of Lord Rooker with students at Abbeywood Community School.

Thursday 4th July 2019 SH (Editor)

Abbeywood students enjoy visit from Lords peer

On Friday 17th May, a Year 10 business studies class and a group of Year 12 students at Abbeywood Community School were lucky enough to receive a visit from Lord Jeffrey Rooker, a member of the House of Lords. He was there as part of the ‘Peers in Schools’ programme, which was has been running since 2007. The scheme allows members

Photo of Mayor Tim Bowles with a group of students and teachers outside Abbeywood Community School.

Saturday 15th June 2019 SH (Editor)

Schools’ career advice scheme set for expansion

West of England mayor Tim Bowles visited Stoke Gifford’s Abbeywood Community School on 20th May, where he took the opportunity to announce plans for the expansion of a scheme designed to inspire young people and make them better prepared for the world of work. The Careers Hub initiative was launched by the West of England Combined Authority and Local Enterprise