Abbeywood Community School has registered an increase of almost 20% in the number of students achieving 5 A*-C grades at GCSE including English and Maths in the last two years with 60% of students hitting or exceeding this important benchmark this week (up from 41% in 2011 and 47% in 2012). The school also reports an increase in the number
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The keys to a significant new Bristol building were handed over on Wednesday (21st August), as City of Bristol College took possession of its new £12m Advanced Engineering Centre (AEC) at New Road, Stoke Gifford. The keys were handed over by Cowlin Construction after building work at the centre was successfully completed earlier this month. College staff are now making
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The Bristol Technology and Engineering Academy (BTE Academy) being constructed on the site of the former Filton High School in New Road, Stoke Gifford, has reached a significant milestone with a “topping out” event being held to mark the building reaching its highest point. Once complete, the building will house large workshop areas needed for increased levels of vocational project
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Governors at St Michael’s Primary School in Stoke Gifford have agreed to take on an extra reception class for the next two years, in response to a shortage of places anticipated by South Gloucestershire Council (SGC). Construction work to create three new permanent classrooms at the school is nearing completion and it had been anticipated that some of the temporary
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Abbeywood Community School became an Academy on 1st January 2013. Along with Bradley Stoke Community School (which already has Academy status since the start of 2012), Abbeywood will now be maintained by the Olympus Academy Trust and not by South Gloucestershire Council. This means that whilst the school is state funded and sponsored by the Olympus Academy Trust, it remains
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A new school foreseen for the Cheswick Village estate in Stoke Gifford has now been granted planning permission and officially named Wallscourt Farm Academy. This Cabot Learning Federation (CLF) academy will be a new single storey 420-place primary academy which will be a state of the art school and based on flexible and creative approaches to learning for the 21st
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A “visionary principal” has been appointed to lead a new primary school that is due to open in Cheswick Village next September. The Cabot Learning Federation has announced the appointment of Miss Susie Weaver to the role of headteacher of the brand new Wallscourt Farm Primary Academy. Building work on the new school is due to start early next year
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Building work has started on the Bristol Technology and Engineering (BTE) Academy in New Road, Stoke Gifford, the first of its kind in the south west. The academy will open in September 2013 to educate young people who are interested in a career in the engineering or environmental technology sectors. As a University Technical College (UTC), the academy will give
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Building work has started on City of Bristol College’s newest building, on the site of the former Filton High School in New Road, Stoke Gifford. The £12 million Advanced Engineering Centre will bring together the college’s automotive and aeronautical engineering into one state-of-the-art building creating one of the largest engineering centres in the UK. The new facility will include several
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A planning application has been submitted for a new primary school that is due to open next September in Cheswick Village, Stoke Gifford. The proposed school, which will be an academy operated by the Cabot Learning Federation, is to be constructed on land between Long Down Avenue and the new Cheswick Bus Link – in the centre of the new
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