Oasis Academy Brightstowe is a secondary school with academy status in

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, England. It opened in September 2008 in the buildings of the former Portway Community School.

Description

Oasis Academy Brightstowe is Academy for 11- to 19-year-olds, located in

Shirehampton Shirehampton is a district of Bristol in England, near Avonmouth, at the northwestern edge of the city. It originated as a separate village, retains a High Street with a parish church and shops, and is still thought of as a village by many of it ...

in north Bristol. The Academy opened in September 2008 in the redeveloped buildings of the former Portway School. It has about 800 students. On opening, the school served about 500 11-16 year olds from an area of significant social economic disadvantage. A quarter of students were eligible for

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. The vast majority of students are

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and very few speak an ethnic language at home. About a third have

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Oasis

Oasis Academy Brightstowe is part of the Oasis Community Learning group, a Christian charity The trust have guided forty schools out of special measures. Only one of the 52 Oasis academies is now classified as failing. The academy has been consistently rated as a 'Good' school.

Curriculum

The academy runs a two year Key Stage 3. Setting, based on Key Stage 2 SATs is employed in the Core Subjects (English, maths, science, humanities and languages), with other subjects being mixed ability. In the three year

Key Stage 4 Key Stage 4 (KS4) is the legal term for the two years of school education which incorporate GCSEs, and other examinations, in maintained schools in England normally known as Year 10 and Year 11, when pupils are aged between 14 and 16 by August 31 ...

, that is years 9, 10 and 11, there is core subjects with option block system. This is based on choosing the subjects needed for English Baccalaureate, and a good

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score.

Post 16 provision

Students progress to the North Bristol Post 16 Centre which is made up of both Redland Green and Cotham Learning Communities, which offer 45 Level 3 courses and a good selection of Level 2 courses.

Specialism

The specialism of the Academy is Mathematics and ICT with Business and Enterprise, and these disciplines are emphasised throughout the

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Notable former pupils

Portway School

* Robert Melias (born c.1955), the first person to be convicted of rape, with DNA fingerprinting ( DNA profiling), of Shirehampton and Avonmouth; he was a convicted petty thief in the early 1970s, and had alcohol and gambling addictions; he was defended by Simon Darwall-Smith; he had absconded and was re-arrested on 11 August 1987 in Weymouth; aged 32 he was jailed for 8 years by Sir

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on Friday 13 November 1987, being caught by Detective Con Clive Tippetts, after raping a 43 year old woman, with polio, on 29 January 1987 in Avonmouth; six Home Office centres and the Met Police, had scientists trained in DNA fingerprinting''Daily Record'' Saturday 14 November 1987, page 9

References

{{authority control Secondary schools in Bristol Academies in Bristol Brightstowe Educational institutions established in 2008 2008 establishments in England

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