Oasis Academy Brislington is a mixed gender

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with academy status, located in the Brislington West area of

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, England.

History

As Brislington Enterprise College it was a foundation school administered by Bristol City Council. It acted as a Business and Enterprise specialist college and Teaching Development Agency designated training school. After a negative Ofsted inspection in 2014 it was converted to academy status, sponsored by

Oasis Trust Oasis Charitable Trust, commonly known as Oasis, is a UK-based Christian registered charity. It was founded by the Reverend Steve Chalke in September 1985. Chalke had been assistant minister at Tonbridge Baptist Church, Kent, for four years. He ...

, in February 2015 and was renamed Oasis Academy Brislington. As Brislington Enterprise College, it had appeared on the

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episode, '' Dispatches: The Children Left Behind'', on 11 February 2008. as well as a number of episodes for

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Building

New buildings, designed and built by

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, were opened at the beginning of September 2008 and officially opened in October 2008 by

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. The sixth form common room was opened at the end of the 08/09 year as the old "clc building" was reused as the ASD (

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) Centre. The old buildings were demolished and landscaped.

Brislington Enterprise College

The school's last inspection took place on 20 and 21 May 2014 and it received a 'requires improvement' overall and in every category. It decided to change its status to an

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Description

This is a 920 student secondary school, with provision for an 35 place autism unit, and a 20 place speech and language disorder unit. Text was copied from this source, which is available under a
Open Government Licence v3.0
© Crown copyright. The Oasis Trust has legal responsibility for the academy and an academy council, with representatives are from the local community, parents and the trust, forms the local governing body it reports through the regional director to the national board of the trust. The proportion of pupils entitled

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funding is above the national average. Three years after the refactoring, in 2018, Ofsted was still of the opinion that the academy 'requires improvement' and in the text commented that the new regime was making the necessary improvements but the expected outcomes were not yet measurable. In 2021, Ofsted were under the impression that the academy was ‘good’. In the inspection report of the school, under a section called ‘What does the school need to improve?’. It states ‘Teachers provide guidance, scaffolding and prompts to support pupils to learn. However, sometimes, teaching does not allow pupils to extend their knowledge as well as they could. Leaders need to ensure that planned work on how to develop a challenging curriculum has the desired impact.’

Oasis

Oasis Academy Brislington is part of the Oasis Community Learning group, and evangelical Christian charity. The trust have guided forty schools out of special measures. 19 per cent of the 52 Oasis academies classified as failing. The trust's founder Reverend

Steve Chalke Stephen John "Steve" Chalke (born 17 November 1955) is a British Baptist minister, the founder of the Oasis Charitable Trust, a former United Nations' Special Adviser on Human Trafficking and a social activist. Chalke is a Fellow of the Royal Soc ...

says "Turning round a school is sometimes a quick fix, it really, truly is. And sometimes it’s a really long, hard, hard job". Oasis has a long term strategy for enhancing the performance of its schools. Firstly it has devised a standard curriculum, that each school can safely adopt knowing it will deliver the

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. Secondly it has invested in staff training so they are focused on improving the outcomes for the students, and thirdly, through its Horizons scheme it is providing each member of staff and student with a tablet.

Curriculum

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, and their success is judged on how well they succeed in delivering a 'broad and balanced curriculum'. Schools endeavour to get all students to achieve the

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qualification – this must include core subjects a modern or ancient foreign language, and either History or Geography.

References

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