A Stoke Gifford afterschool and holiday care provider is celebrating after being awarded the highest possible grade of ‘outstanding’ following a recent Ofsted inspection. The Play House, located next to St Michael’s Primary School on Ratcliffe Drive, impressed the Ofsted inspector during its first inspection since the facility opened in September 2016. It received the ‘outstanding’ grading in all three
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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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Staff and pupils at a local primary school that was deemed ‘in need of improvement’ two years ago are celebrating after Ofsted rated it ‘good’ following its latest inspection in January. Little Stoke Primary School was graded ‘good’ for each of the five key judgement themes of leadership and management, behaviour and safety of pupils, quality of teaching, achievement of
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Staff and students at South Gloucestershire and Stroud College (SGS) are celebrating after receiving an overall ‘good’ status by Ofsted just two years after the new college was formed. The college, one of the newest in the country, was formed by dissolution of Filton and Stroud Colleges and the incorporation of SGS College in February 2012. SGS had its first
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Ofsted inspectors have reported that Abbeywood Community School is making “satisfactory” progress in addressing specific areas of concern that were identified when the school was placed into ‘special measures’ at the end of last year. Three inspectors visited the school on 15th/16th May and and their report was published today on the Ofsted website, although it had been made available
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St Michael’s Church of England Primary School in Stoke Gifford has been rated “good” by Ofsted inspectors, who visited the school for two days last month. The team of four inspectors observed approximately ten hours of lessons at the 597-pupil school, which is located in Ratcliffe Drive. The report begins: “This is a good school. The consistent quality of its
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The headteacher of Abbeywood Community School, recently placed into ‘special measures’ by Ofsted, says he has received “positive feedback” from an inspector who visited the school last week. Writing in the latest edition of the school newsletter, Dave Baker reports: “We had a visit from Ofsted on Tuesday last week; an inspector visited for the day in order to look
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Stoke Gifford’s Abbeywood Community School has been placed into special measures by Ofsted. The school, formerly known as Filton High, was visited by inspectors at the beginning of December and their report was sent home to parents/carers yesterday (Monday 30th January). Ofsted had previously served the school with “notice to improve” following an inspection in October 2010. A monitoring inspection
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