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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On Thursday 7th February, Abbeywood Community School invited children from the local community to help them celebrate Harry Potter Book Night. Around 50-60 children attended the event and enjoyed a variety of activities based around the popular books written by J.K. Rowling. Although the children enjoyed all of the activities available, it was clear to see that some had their
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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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Abbeywood Community School student Liam Holden has recently been crowned junior kickboxing world champion at a tough competition which was held in Venice, Italy. Liam, who has been kickboxing since he was 6 years old, is now 13 and competes in about ten tournaments a year, both here and abroad. The world championships that took place in Venice between 16th
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Two Year 11 students from Abbeywood Community School recently travelled to Belgium and France as representatives for the legacy project that is being run by University College London alongside the government. Tom Wallington and Anish Kataria spent three days in October exploring battlefields and seeing key sites from World War 1, with the main focus being around the battlefields around
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June has seen the arrival of summer as the sun has shone down brightly on the village of Stoke Gifford. Here’s what has been happening this month. St Michael’s Church St Michael’s enjoyed their yearly ‘Church on the Green’ on Sunday 24th June where there was a large turnout to enjoy stories, songs and a picnic. This was then followed
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This month we’ve seen the warm summer sunshine turn into cloud and thunderstorms, however, this hasn’t stopped the Stoke Gifford community from working hard and celebrating their successes. St Michael’s Primary School The children of St Michael’s have just celebrated the end of term with their own rendition of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (see photo to the right), performed in
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Excitement has been brewing throughout the village this month as the schools are preparing for their musical productions and the St Michael’s Centre has started to use its newly finished balcony in the auditorium. Abbeywood Community School April has seen Abbeywood school celebrating many successes as they came second in a national maths competition and a team of year 10
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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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