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Bannerman Road Community Academy is an inclusive primary school in Bristol. The modern buildings in inner city Bristol, Easton are linked by play areas and our developing landscaped areas are used in forest school activities for all children. We celebrate our diverse and multi-lingual community and believe that all pupils are entitled to high quality, engaging and exciting teaching and learning. We have high expectations and challenge everyone to reach their full potential.

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Barton Hill Academy is a Primary academy in East Central Bristol serving a diverse community and many of our children and families are multi-lingual. We became an Academy on 1st September 2014. The Academy has classes from Nursery to Year Six. Our values are: RESPECT Responsibility, Excellence, Success, Pride, Equality, Compassion, Tenacity. We aim for all of our children to achieve their full potential in our inclusive and safe, learning focused school community. We value the contribution of all members of our community and aim to work with other groups and agencies in the area. We offer an exciting curriculum which includes Core Learning Skills to develop the children's own understanding of themselves and their learning and which will enable our children to be lifelong learners.

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The Dolphin School is a new and unique inner city school with an exciting future. Every member of staff who works at The Dolphin School has the opportunity to contribute to the creation and building of a caring, high achieving and community ethos for our school. Having opened in September 2012 the school moved into its state of the art new buildings in April 2017 and by September 2020 the school will be at its full capacity of 420 pupil places.

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Fairlawn Primary School opened in a majestically modernised Victorian Grammar School in September 2015 for Reception children as a new two form entry school meeting the needs of the local area and community. By 2021 the school will have classes in each year group from Reception through to Year 6. The school has already developed a strong community focus and is a place where parents, staff and others in the wider community have a voice in the way the children are educated. It is a school where we expect every child to achieve academic success and that their well-being is at the heart of everything we do. The curriculum is innovative and creative with a focus on drawing together science, technology, engineering, art/design and mathematics (STEAM). Children are taught Spanish from reception and participate in engaging and memorable experiences beyond the classroom.

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The Kingfisher School is located in the historic area of At Anne’s Park for students from Nursery age through to Year 6. Our curriculum is designed with our community at the centre and an overarching aim is for our children to develop a love of learning and passion for all that life can offer, encouraging creativity and exploratory in their learning. We moved into our new state of the art school building in September 2018, which included our own dedicated Studio and Art and Design Technology Room and we continue to share and benefit from resources and expertise from both the secondary schools and other primary schools within the trust.

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Merchants' Academy is an all-age mainstream school for students from Nursery through to Sixth Form which opened in 2008 as an 11-18 Academy and became an all-age school with the addition of the Nursery and Primary in September 2012. The Academy is sponsored by the Society of Merchant Venturers and the University of Bristol. Merchants' Academy lies at the heart of the community and is a happy, vibrant and exciting place to learn and work. We take seriously the fact that our students only get one chance at an excellent education.

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Welcome to Montpelier High School, a community proud of its identity, diversity and shared achievements.

Established in 1891 as Colston’s Girls’ School, the full cohort of students and staff chose to change our name to Montpelier High School in 2021. We have a long and proud history of educating successful young women who are capable of becoming leaders, pioneers and change-makers. Our students develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to achieve high ambitions for themselves and for their communities. 

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Opened in September 2016, Venturers' Academy is the first state funded all age specialist provision in Bristol for children with a primary diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Conditions (ASC) and who have an Education Health Care Plan (EHCP). Established by the sponsors the Society of Merchant Venturers and the University of Bristol, Venturers' Academy is a centre of excellence. Venturers' Academy provides an outstanding, personalised and challenging education, where students aspire to, and attain, the highest levels of achievement both academically and socially, where each and every student thrives and where everything's possible. The academy is based across three different sites,two sites in Withywood and one in St Anne's Park.

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V6 is an exciting new co-educational Sixth Form in central Bristol.

V6 Sixth Form provides an inspirational environment enabling students to flourish and achieve their personal ambitions and is ranked in the top ten state schools nationally for the proportion of students going on to study at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

V6 is more than an academic education, with students being supported to become happy, compelling and successful individuals, capable of shaping their local, national and global communities.