A Sure Start centre for toddlers at Bowsland Green Primary School is likely to be given the go-ahead following a report by council planners.
South Gloucestershire Council applied for permission for the revamp which would also include a bigger school hall.
Council bosses say the current hall is “undersized for the population of children catered for”.
It would provide space for school meals, sports activities and plays.
The school says once the new hall is open the current one would be fitted out for the new Sure Start centre.
A planning report says no objections were received by either residents or the town council.
A recommendation to approve the scheme was submitted by planners.
Central government has committed to providing a Sure Start centre – to help with “early years provision” – in every community by 2010.
The centre would also provide health services for children, advice for parents and links to local training opportunities.
The development would also resolve a long-running parking issue at the school which currently does not have enough spaces for staff.
Extra spaces would be created by the revamp should it be okayed by councillors.
• Bowsland Green Primary School
• More on Sure Start announcement
• New Sure Start centres for South Gloucestershire
Tags: · Bowsland Green Primary School, Education
April 16th, 2009 · Comments Off
A guide to schools, pre-schools and other education and childcare facilities in Bradley Stoke.
If we’ve missed something from this list please contact us via news@sadlybroke.com
Secondary schools
Bradley Stoke Community School
Address: Fiddlers Wood Lane, Bradley Stoke, BS32 9BS.
Telephone: (01454) 868840
Web: http://www.bradleystokecs.org.uk/
Primary schools
Bailey’s Court Primary School
Breaches Gate, Bradley Stoke, BS32 8AZ
Telephone: (01454) 866666
Web: http://www.baileyscourt.ik.org/
League table results
Bowsland Green Primary School
Ellicks Close, Bradley Stoke, BS32 0ES
Telephone: (01454) 866766
Web: http://www.bowslandgreen.org.uk/
School league tables
Holy Trinity Primary School
Broad Croft, Bradley Stoke, BS32 0BD
Telephone: (01454) 866735
Web: http://www.holytrinity-pri.s-gloucs.sch.uk/
League table results
Meadowbrook Primary School
Three Brooks Lane, Bradley Stoke, BS32 8TA
Telephone: (01454) 868630
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St Mary’s Catholic Primary School
Webbs Wood Road, Bradley Stoke, BS32 8EJ
Telephone: (01454) 866390
Web: http://www.stmarysbradleystoke.org.uk/
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Wheatfield Primary School
Wheatfield Drive, Bradley Stoke, BS32 9DB
Telephone: (01454) 868610
School league tables
• Pre-schools
Trinity pre-school
Holy Trinity Church, Broad Croft, Bradley Stoke, BS32 0BD
Telephone: (01454) 620975
Web: http://trinitypreschoolbradleystoke.co.uk/main.html
Little Acorns pre-school
Jubilee Centre, Bradley Stoke
Web: http://www.lachildcare.co.uk/
Little Acers pre-school
Bowsland Green Primary School
Web: http://www.lachildcare.co.uk/littleacers/index.html
Covey Nursery
Unit 4 and 6 Baileys Court, Webbs Wood Road, Bradley Stoke, BS32 8EJ
Telephone: Nursery – (0117) 9794190, Pre-school – (0117) 9311999
Web: http://www.coveynursery.co.uk/
Leapfrog Nursery
Ferndene, Bradley Stoke, BS32 9DF
Telephone: (01454) 202888
Web: http://www.leapfrogdaynurseries.co.uk/
Butterflies Day Nursery
Great Park Road Bradley Stoke, BS32 4RU
Telephone: (01454) 617111
Tags: · Bradley Stoke, Education, nursery, pre-school, schools
A Sure Start centre for toddlers could open alongside a new school hall development at Bowsland Green Primary School in Bradley Stoke.
South Gloucestershire Council has applied for permission for the revamp because their current hall is “undersized for the population of children catered for”.
The new hall would provide space for school meals, sports activities and plays.
The school says once the new hall is open the current one would be fitted out for the new toddler centre.
Central government has committed to providing a Sure Start centre – to help with “early years provision” – in every community by 2010.
The centre would also provide health services for children, advice for parents and links to local training opportunities.
The development would also resolve a long-running parking issue at the school which currently does not have enough spaces for staff.
The application says: “Currently staff that cannot park within the school grounds park in adjacent residential areas, which is causing issues with neighbours.”
A consultation on the plans will run until the end of April and a decision on the development could be made in the summer.
• Bowsland Green Primary School
• More on Sure Start announcement
• New Sure Start centres for South Gloucestershire
Tags: · Bowsland Green Primary School, Education
A five-year-old girl, who faced a school walk of more than two miles through the Three Brooks Nature Reserve, has been given a place closer to her home.
Millie did not gain a place at the first three schools her parents wanted her to go and could have ended up at Bowsland Green.
South Gloucestershire Council wanted Gavin and Karen Peters to use a walking route through an unlit section of the reserve.
But now, St Mary’s Primary School has stepped in to offer Millie a place meaning her school run will be less than half a mile.
Tags: · Education, South Gloucestershire Council
A “to do” over places at Bradley Stoke Community School more than two years ago is being blamed for a four-year-old girl being allocated a school place 50 minutes walk from her home.
The Evening Post has been reporting on the case of Gavin and Karen Peters, who live in Juniper Way, who have been refused entry to their first three school preferences.
This is despite one of those choices being less than half a mile away – at their end of their street.
The Peters wanted their daughter, Millie, to go to either Bailey’s Court, St Mary’s (on Juniper Way) or Wheatfield Schools but were turned down for all three because they were oversubscribed.
She has now been allocated a place at Bowsland Green which Mrs Peters says would take 50 minutes to walk and is along an unlit path.
In an email, seen by The Bradley Stoke Examiner, which was sent by an employee of South Gloucestershire Council, they claimed the “lake route was included after all the to do with Bradley Stoke [Community] School potential parents”.
The council worker is referring to a case in 2006 where a girl in Ormonds Close was refused entry to the community school despite being able to see it from her house.
At the time, the official council gazetteer showed that her nearest school would be Patchway if walked using official routes.
After a campaign those routes were changed to include the nature reserve. Two years later the consequence of this change is that Millie has been given a place at Bowsland Green.
Pictured: Three Brooks Nature Reserve, where Millie would be expected to walk to school
Since the fight between the district council and parents battling for places at the community school, new tarmac has been put down on the paths and street lighting installed – which is not the case for the route to Bowsland Green School.
A spokeswoman for South Gloucestershire Council, speaking to Evening Post, defended the latest decision: “The routes to school used in determining allocations are agreed and adopted as part of the Routes to School Gazetteer.
“Where parents are unsuccessful in gaining a place at one of their preferred schools, they are referred to their nearest available school with a place available.
“This is normally within the statutory walking distance of two miles for children under the age of eight.”
Tags: · Education, South Gloucestershire Council
A girl from Bradley Stoke is to follow in the footsteps of film character Billy Elliot after landing a place at the Royal Ballet School at Covent Garden in London.
Connie Vowles, who attends Bailey’s Court Primary School, will take up the place from September.
She is one of 12 children from across the UK who landed a place from more than 1,000 applications.
The prestigious school was founded in 1926 when Dame Ninette de Valois opened the Academy of Choreographic Art. It gained a royal charter in 1956.
Tags: · Education, royal ballet school
The new draft plans for a sixth form and dance hall at Bradley Stoke Community School have been released.
We’ve got the high-resolution versions for you to browse through here at the Bradley Stoke Examiner.
You can check out both the mock-up images and the plans themselves here – then tell us what you think of them.
Head teacher Dave Baker says that South Gloucestershire Council needs to gain planning approval for the sixth form before the Learning Skills Council will approve or even fund the project.
The plans – once a final version is completed – will now need planning approval and then funding will need to be secured.
Download the plans – PDF files, requires Acrobat Reader.
Tags: · Bradley Stoke Community School, Education, Planning, sixth form, South Gloucestershire Council
