Students at Patchway Community School are celebrating a “well-deserved” set of GCSE examination results, despite experiencing several years of disruption due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The proportion of students achieving both English and Mathematics at Grade 4 or above was 42 percent (compared to 40 percent in 2019)…
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Plans for a replacement main building at Patchway Community School have been revealed, along with a proposed implementation timeline that shows the new accommodation opening in “spring 2026”. It is foreseen that staff and students will “decant” into temporary modular accommodation on the site in “spring 2024”, at the start of a two-year phased build period.
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Patchway Community School is celebrating its “best ever” GCSE examination results, with grades 7-9 across a wide range of subjects, as well as many grades 4-9 in English and Mathematics. Fifty-six percent of students achieved grades 4-9 in both English and Mathematics.
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Students at Patchway Community School are celebrating the results of their Post-16 examinations following two years of disruption due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Most of the students were unable to sit GCSEs in 2020 and so this summer’s examinations were the first external assessments they took.
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The end of April saw Richard Clark, a headteacher with the Olympus Academy Trust, say a sad farewell to children, parents and colleagues after choosing to take early retirement in order to pursue other interests. Up to this point, Richard had been teaching for 30 years across Devon and South Gloucestershire…
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A secondary school in Patchway that joined the Olympus Academy Trust (OAT) in 2016 after being rated ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted has received another disappointing grading from inspectors. The latest Ofsted report for Patchway Community School allocates an overall rating of ‘requires improvement’…
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Progress is being made on plans for major investment at two secondary schools in north Bristol. A scheme to completely replace the main buildings at Patchway Community School could be completed by 2024, while Abbeywood Community School is set to be extended in time for the 2023/24 academic year.
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Local politicians, councillors and school leaders are celebrating the news that a proposed scheme to rebuild Patchway Community School has been selected to receive funding through the government’s School Rebuilding Programme. The final amount of funding that will be made available is still to be confirmed.
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The need to cater for a massive increase in expected demand for secondary school places in the Bristol North Fringe over the coming years looks set to see the building of a brand new school, the extensive redevelopment of an existing school and an increase in the intake of a third.
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This year’s Post-16 examination results at Patchway Community School have seen 41 percent of all academic grades being awarded at A*-B and an overall pass rate of 98 percent. Top student Joel Cottrell was awarded subject grades A*, A* & A, with an additional A in his Extended Project.
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