Work to deliver new primary and secondary schools in Lyde Green is under way after the final funding agreements and contracts were signed to deliver the new facilities in time for the start of the 2026/27 academic year. The 420-place primary school will be run by the Castle School Education Trust and the 900-place, 11-16 secondary school will be run by the Olympus Academy Trust.
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Children are having to wear coats during lessons because schools in South Gloucestershire are so cash-strapped they cannot afford to turn the heating up. Headteachers say the financial situation has hit crisis point because the district is the worst-funded of all 151 education authorities in the country. Both council-maintained and academy schools are affected.
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As GCSE maths and English exams across the country get underway, SGS College in South Gloucestershire and Stroud is calling on the Government to rethink the literacy and numeracy qualifications required to ensure young people are equipped with the right skills for the workplace. SGS currently has 800 GCSE maths and English students resitting exams this June after not attaining
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Provisional figures for GCSE results in South Gloucestershire have now been collated, and the percentage of pupils achieving five or more A*-C grades including English and mathematics is 55 per cent. This is a slight drop compared to the 57 per cent achieved last year, however these results also reflect a national picture of great volatility following the changes to
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A national scheme to extend free early years education to two-year-olds living in low-income households has got off to a flying start in South Gloucestershire. Some 479 children have had places provided by the council under the scheme, a take-up rate of 87 per cent of all eligible children. The government had originally allocated funding for 439 places in South
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Local engineering companies are getting involved in shaping the curriculum of Bristol and South Gloucestershire’s new University Technical College (UTC), planned to open on a site in Stoke Gifford in September 2013. UTCs are a new concept in education, offering 14-19 year-olds a course of full time study that is very technically orientated. Employers are key to the success of
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Thousands of young people from South Gloucestershire will be gathering at the University of the West of England over the next two days (19th to 20th October) for the one of the region’s biggest careers events. Ambitions 2011 is a unique annual event that brings together young people aged 14-19 years with local training providers and employers from the public,
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Children attending special schools in South Gloucestershire and Bristol enjoyed a day of music-making thanks to South Gloucestershire Council’s Music and Arts Service and the support of the Bristol Aztec Rotary Club. The ‘Music Rules OK’ event was held at Little Stoke Primary School on Thursday 6th October and brought together children aged 10-15 years old with a range of
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Labour councillors have been urged to get behind a local bid to build a new aerospace University Technical College (UTC) in South Gloucestershire, following a government announcement that it has passed the latest approval stage. The call from the Council’s Conservative education chief, Cllr Sheila Cook, follows criticism from Labour councillors at council meetings that the UTC will just add
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South Gloucestershire’s Conservative administration has come under pressure to say what impact a new college might have on neighbouring schools. Labour councillors representing the Filton and Patchway areas are seeking assurances about future educational provision following the recent bid for a University Technology College (UTC) for 14 to 19 year olds to be located on land adjoining Abbeywood Community School.
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