By Rachel Land, English teacher at Abbeywood Community School. With a sensational ensemble and band to match, ‘Grease’ certainly electrified Abbeywood Community School (ACS)! The world famous musical follows rebellious teenager Danny Zuko (Jay) and sweet Sandy Dombrowski (Emily) as their relationship struggles to deal with the peer pressures of Rydell High. From the moment the cast burst onto the
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More than 30 students from Years 9 and 12 at Abbeywood Community School (ACS) in Stoke Gifford have been training hard in recent months as the Duke of Edinburgh’s (DofE) Award scheme has been introduced at the school for the first time. Cole Simpson, a teaching assistant at the school, is co-ordinating the scheme and is supporting the students as
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Guest article by Stoke Gifford resident Lauren Brenton, a 17-year-old student at Abbeywood Community School who aspires to one day becoming a journalist, following in the footsteps of her grandfather. Lauren is hoping to study media, journalism and culture at Cardiff University from September. For most young people, ‘Post-16’ or ‘sixth form’ conjures up ideas of meticulous essay writing and
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Every day is an opportunity for learning for the staff and children at Little Stoke Primary School. That was even true at the end of October when attention turned to the departure of the headteacher, Scott Howes, who was leaving the school after six happy and successful years, to take on a new job in Northern Ireland. “Learning how to
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Little Stoke Primary School’s rating as a ‘good’ school has been confirmed in a report produced by an Ofsted inspector who carried out a ‘short’ inspection on 22nd May 2018. The visit was the first ‘short’ inspection carried out since the school was judged to be ‘good’ in January 2015. Speaking of headteacher Scott Howes, the inspector writes in her
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Ofsted inspectors who visited Stoke Gifford’s Abbeywood Community School at the end of February have confirmed the academy’s ‘good’ grading but at the same time identified priorities for improvement. The ‘short’ inspection was the first carried out since the school was rated ‘good’ in October 2014, following its incorporation into the Olympus Academy Trust (OAT) on 1st January 2013. Inspectors
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A group of Year 9 students at Abbeywood Community School have met with residents of Osbourne Court to form an ‘Intergenerational Book Group’ as a way of meeting and interacting with members of the community and to share some of their favourite pieces of writing. On Wednesday 6th December, seven ladies from the residential home travelled to Abbeywood and were
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Abbeywood Community School’s Post-16 students have once again achieved some very positive A-level results which saw the average grade per entry increase by a whole grade. Fourteen percent of grades awarded were A* or A, and 32 percent of students achieved A*-B grades in A-level subjects. In vocational subjects, 88 percent of students achieved the highest grades of Distinction and
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A local primary school has been recognised through a national award scheme for enhancing and strengthening its links with parents and carers. Achieving the Leading Parent Partnership Award (LPPA) is the culmination of 18 months of hard work by the whole school community, including parents, children, staff and governors. The LPPA programme is intended to help schools meet longer term
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Staff from the Tesco Extra store in Bradley Stoke have been helping a local school maintain and improve an area of woodland that is used for Forest School lessons. As part of its community outreach programme, the store has provided materials to construct a privacy screen around parts of the woodland within the grounds of Little Stoke Primary School. Store
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