Students at Patchway Community College celebrated with excitement and jubilation on receiving their GCSE results on Thursday morning (22nd August). The school gained record high results in a wide range of subjects, including Maths, History, RE, Sport and Performing Arts, with the percentage of students gaining five A*-C grades increasing to 78%. Headteacher Jane Millicent said: “Students of all abilities
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Patchway Community College “delighted” with A-level results
Patchway Community College has maintained its record A-level results from last year, with 19% of grades in 2013 being at A or A*, and 70% at A*-C. Some fantastic individual performances included Zainab Bello with three A grades in Biology, Chemistry and Maths; Leah Tozer with three As in Drama, English Literature and Psychology; and Abigail Edwards with an A*
Continue readingPatchway College students honoured after six-month competition
Students from Patchway Community College recently won a number of prizes at the RSG Bristol Young Student of the Year Awards, the culmination of a sixth month competition to up-skill and connect students with businesses was launched to tackle the rising rates of youth unemployment in the UK. Now in its second year, the competition, which aims bridge the gap
Continue readingRolls-Royce helps stage final of schools’ engineering challenge
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
Continue readingUncertainty continues as Callicroft School fails to recruit new headteacher
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
Continue readingCallicroft Primary School advertises for new headteacher
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,
Continue readingMixed performances for Patchway primaries in KS2 tests
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
Continue readingPatchway College teachers’ video is internet hit
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
Continue readingStudents get the chance to perform at the Colston Hall
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
Continue readingPatchway Community College rated “good” by Ofsted inspectors
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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