Mayor visits City Academy to celebrate Bristol WORKS Marvin Rees visited City Academy today (Friday 11) to celebrate the Bristol WORKS programme. Whilst there, the mayor took part in a short assembly with pupils before jumping on board the Engine Shed on Tour bus to see a 360 degree film that City Academy [...]
Popular Bristol primary school expands Over 200 new places have been added at a popular Bristol primary school as part of the council’s ongoing partnership work to ensure there are enough places for every child in the city. Whitehall Primary School has expanded its capacity by a third and is now able to accept 30 [...]
Getting children to reach their potential with Bristol Career Coach A new programme was unveiled last week (15 March) to help encourage children in care in Bristol to reach their full potential as part of the Bristol Career Coach scheme. The programme pares school children in year nine (ages 13-14), who are primarily from a [...]
Mayor calls for more focus on apprenticeships during National Apprenticeship week Marvin Rees, Mayor of Bristol, is highlighting the growing amount of apprenticeship opportunities in the city as part of National Apprenticeship Week. There will be jobs fairs and information events around apprenticeships every day this week to celebrate this national event. Learning City partner [...]
Cabinet agree to build a new school as part of their work to create more school places At today’s cabinet meeting (6 March), Marvin Rees, Mayor of Bristol, agreed to accept the funding for a new secondary school to be built in the city as part of a wider programme to develop new school places [...]
Families across Bristol offered their secondary school places Today (1 March) on National Offer Day, families across Bristol will receive offers of secondary school places across the city. All families who applied to Bristol schools will be offered a place. This year 4,900 applications were received – a 6% increase on last year when 4,625 [...]
Bristol Early Years launches sixth edition of the Bristol Standard A new edition of the Bristol Standard has been launched this week by Bristol Early Years to help professionals improve the quality of their provision for young children and families. The sixth edition of the Bristol Standard is part of the council’s ongoing work to [...]
More jobs on offer in South Bristol on Thursday (15 February) Over 40 organisations and companies will be looking to talk to potential new employees and apprentices at a jobs fair in the South Bristol Skills Academy on Thursday 15 February. Those attending will cover a wide range of different job sectors and will have [...]
Sharing learning stories for National Storytelling Week 2018 The University of Bristol is celebrating National Storytelling Week by joining Bristol Learning City’s campaign ‘#ThisChangedMyLife’. The campaign aims to inspire others to learn something new, presenting Bristol’s diverse range of learning opportunities befitting a city with UNESCO Learning City status. The Bristol Learning City team is [...]
Mayor asks for your inspirational learning stories Mayor Marvin Rees and Bristol Learning City partners will be unveiling stories about how learning changes lives for the better from Saturday (27 January) as part of Bristol’s new campaign, #ThisChangedMyLife. Coinciding with the start of National Storytelling Week (27 January - 3 February), the campaign aims to [...]
