Aerospace companies from around the South West, including Patchway-based Rolls-Royce, recently staged the Grand Final of a schools competition which aims to encourage Key Stage 3 students to take up science, technology, engineering and maths. Over 130 pupils from thirteen secondary schools in the South West took part in the Grand Final of the Flying Start Challenge at the Fleet
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The process of recruiting a new headteacher for Callicroft Primary School has suffered a setback after just two people applied for the job, which had been advertised nationally in January. The position became vacant after the previous holder of the post, Sandra Lakeman, resigned suddenly last October. Governers at the school have since decided that neither of the two applicants
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A Patchway primary school has advertised for a new headteacher after the previous holder of the post resigned last year. Callicroft Primary School (in Rodway Road) is currently being overseen by Richard Clark, the headteacher at Stoke Lodge Primary School, pending the new appointment. Mr Clark has been supporting the school in an ‘Executive Head’ role since the previous headteacher,
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Primary schools in Patchway registered mixed performances in the 2012 Key Stage 2 (KS2) tests, the results of which were published recently. Holy Family led the field locally with the highest percentage of pupils achieving the expected level in both maths and English (94%, compared to an average of 79% for all state-funded schools in South Gloucestershire). Holy Family also
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Staff at Patchway Community College gave students an early Christmas present by recording their own version of the dance craze ‘Gangnam Style‘. The video, which has been uploaded to YouTube, received over 3,000 views in the first weekend of it being online. Within three hours of being uploaded on Friday 14th December, the video had reviewed over 300 views! The
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Students at Patchway Community College are being offered a chance to play in front of a crowd of 2,000 people at Bristol’s Colston Hall. The annual competition called ‘The PatchFactor’ is run by staff at the secondary school and offers every student from Year 7 right through to Year 13 a chance to showcase their talents in front of the
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Patchway Community College has been praised by Ofsted inspectors who have awarded the school a ‘good’ grading under the new, more rigorous Ofsted regime. Patchway is the first secondary school in South Gloucestershire to be inspected under the tougher Ofsted regime. In their report, inspectors praised the school’s results, noting: “Regardless of their starting points, ability or special educational needs,
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Students at Patchway Community College secured the school’s best ever results this year with 56% obtaining 5A*-C including English and Maths. The school says these results have risen by 14% over the last five years, and have doubled since 2006, with students’ individual progress across subjects being particularly impressive. Stand out individual performances included: Edmund Smith with 8A*s, 3As and
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Patchway Community College has achieved its best ever A-level results this year, with a 100% pass rate on all qualifications and a record-breaking 19% of grades at A or A*. A tremendous 47% of the A-level entries achieved grades in the A* to B range. The success continued with BTEC qualifications, where 31% achieved an impressive ‘distinction’ or ‘distinction star’.
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Patchway’s Holy Family RC Primary School has been rated “good” by Ofsted inspectors who visited the school last month. Two inspectors observed a total of 20 lessons at the 174-pupil school, located in Amberley Road, Stoke Lodge. Lead inspector Michael Merchant writes in his report: “This is a good school. Pupils make good progress thanks to consistently good teaching and
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