A school in Stoke Gifford has been judged to have the best club in the South West in the annual Kellogg’s Breakfast Club Awards. Abbeywood Community School has received a cash prize of £1,000 to spend on its breakfast club as well as a special party pack for the students to celebrate in the coming months.
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Stoke Gifford’s Abbeywood Community School reports that this year’s Year 11 students have registered “outstanding” GCSE results. As in all schools, the grades awarded have been based on teacher assessments. This follows a government decision to abandon Ofqual’s proposed algorithm-based approach.
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Year 13 students at Abbeywood Community School are celebrating an excellent set of Post-16 results, with over half of students receiving grades A*-B and over 20 percent receiving a top grade. The overall pass rate was 99 percent.
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Staff, governors and students at Stoke Gifford’s Abbeywood Community School are celebrating after receiving an overall ‘good’ grading from Ofsted following an inspection which took place on 19th & 20th November 2019. The full ‘Section 5’ inspection judged the school ‘good’ in all five assessment areas, replicating the result of the school’s last full inspection in October 2014 following its
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Abbeywood Community School (ACS) students are celebrating their GCSE results, which are said to show a strong trend of improvement for the school in all key performance measures. Overall, students have achieved better progress than the national average, with over two-thirds achieving a standard (grade 4) pass in both English and maths. In addition to the featured high-attaining students (see
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This year’s Post-16 exam results at Abbeywood Community School saw almost one-third of all grades awarded being at A*-B, with 15 percent in the top A*-A band. The overall pass rate was 96 percent. Bursary students, in receipt of financial support, achieved an entire grade higher than last year, says the school. All students on the IT and business courses
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A group of six Year 12 students who attend Abbeywood Community School have reached the final of the Envision Project which they have been working towards for the last eight months. The final took place on Wednesday 12th June at the Wills Memorial building in Bristol city centre, where the group were up against four other Bristol schools. Envision is
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On Friday 17th May, a Year 10 business studies class and a group of Year 12 students at Abbeywood Community School were lucky enough to receive a visit from Lord Jeffrey Rooker, a member of the House of Lords. He was there as part of the ‘Peers in Schools’ programme, which was has been running since 2007. The scheme allows members
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The Student Fundraising Team at Abbeywood Community School have been spending a lot of time over the last few weeks planning a phenomenal summer fair. The fair is to be held at the school on Thursday 27th June between 3pm and 6pm. All members of the community are invited to attend and help raise money for the team’s chosen charity.
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West of England mayor Tim Bowles visited Stoke Gifford’s Abbeywood Community School on 20th May, where he took the opportunity to announce plans for the expansion of a scheme designed to inspire young people and make them better prepared for the world of work. The Careers Hub initiative was launched by the West of England Combined Authority and Local Enterprise
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