6TH FORM GETS GO AHEAD
8 July 2009Thanks to Jack Lopresti and your local Conservative Councillors, the go-ahead has been given to start the development of the new Bradley Stoke 6th Form. A £5 million grant has been given to the school by the Learning and Skills Council.
Local prospective MP, Jack Lopresti, said "I am delighted to hear that one of our main election promises has secured the necessary funding. We have been strongly committed to achieving this for our town and, importantly, achieving it in time for when the first students will need it.”
Conservative Councillors for Bradley Stoke, John Ashe, Brian Hopkinson, Rob Jones and Sarah Pomfret commented, “A sixth form for Bradley Stoke will significantly enhance the school and ensure it can offer a full 11-18 education for its students. Unless a sixth form is developed at the school, it will be the only South Gloucestershire secondary school which does not offer the choice of staying on post-16. This would be unfair to Bradley Stoke students."
"Having built up relationships with staff and friendship networks at the school, Bradley Stoke students must have the opportunity to continue their post-16 studies at their school if they wish.”
