Oasis Academy Brislington

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Oasis Academy Brislington
Address
Oasis Academy Brislington
Hungerford Road

Bristol
,
BS4 5EY

England
Coordinates 51°25′30″N2°32′19″W / 51.4251°N 2.5386°W / 51.4251; -2.5386
Information
Type Secondary Academy
MottoFirst among equals
Established2015 (refounded)
TrustOasis Community Learning
Department for Education URN 141652 Tables
Ofsted Reports
PrincipalBarnaby Ash
Gender Co-educational
Age11to 16
Enrollment~1300 as of June 2024
Capacity~1300
Colour(s)  Green   Black
Website www.oasisacademybrislington.org

Oasis Academy Brislington is a co-educational secondary school with academy status, located in the Brislington West area of Bristol, England. The school has a long history in the local community, but was rebuilt in 2008 and taken over by the Oasis Charitable Trust in 2015.

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History

Brislington Comprehensive School

The school was founded on local farmland as a secondary modern school; it was opened on 16th April 1956, and then opened officially in October 1956 by Sir David Eccles, then Minister of Education. [1] A Technical Block was added in 1959, with another block, sports hall and swimming pool in 1966-1968. [1] [2] [3] Pupil numbers in 1956 were just over 140, but would climb to 1,850 at its peak. [1]

Brislington Enterprise College

Under the 2002 Specialist Schools Programme, the school became Brislington Enterprise College, a foundation school administered by Bristol City Council. It acted as a Business and Enterprise College and Teaching Development Agency designated training school. It rebranded in 2004, owing to academic underperformance. [4] The college frequently featured on Teachers TV, in some university studies, as well as on the Channel 4 episode, Dispatches: The Children Left Behind, on 11 February 2008. [5] The old school buildings was demolished and new buildings designed and built by Skanska, were officially opened in October 2008 by Kevin McCloud, under the Building Schools for the Future scheme, and a new house system was introduced for each learning community. [6] [7] However, the school still struggled; from 2003 to 2009, its GCSE performance was well below both local authority and national levels, while its ‘Value Added’ in 2013 was the lowest in Bristol. [8] [9] [10] Despite being taken over by the South East Bristol Educational Trust in 2012, it was ‘inadequate’ in 2013, then ‘requires improvement in 2014, it was converted to academy status, sponsored by Oasis Trust, in February 2015 and was renamed Oasis Academy Brislington. [11] [12] [13]

Oasis Academy Brislington

Under the Oasis Trust, the school received an improved Ofsted inspection in 2018, before being rated as ‘good’ in 2021. The school is continuing to make improvements, in line with Oasis’ 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 National Curriculum. 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. [14]

Facilities

The school occupies a £34.8 million building, designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects and HAL Architects developed along the lines of ‘schools within a school’, as there are seven ‘learning communities’ coming off a central corridor. [15] [16] The school building has biomass heating and uses a rainwater system to flush its toilets and natural ventilation and light whenever possible, which contribute to a BREEAM rating of “very good”. [15] The building was ‘highly commended’ in the Excellence and won ‘Best School Team’ in the BSF Awards 2008, a case study for the Partnership for Schools and featured in the national news. [7] [17] [18]

The school has extensive grounds, in which professional gardeners created wildflower meadows, planted 600 trees, 12,000 shrubs, 35,000 bulbs, and grass seeded areas totalling 30,000m2, as well as a garden for SEN pupils. [19] It also features Walter Jack’s bunchedupbenchforbec, a professional artwork commissioned by the school. [20] In the grounds, the school has sports facilities including synthetic turf pitches, grass pitches for rounders, softball, football, rugby union, a fitness suite, and sports hall measuring 690 square metres, all of which have been developed since 2007. [21] The school has other co-curricular facilities, such as a dance studio. [6]

The school has produced a virtual tour of its site and facilities. [22]

List of Principals

NameYears as Principal
John Sydney Hellier1955–1978
David G. Pert1978–1988
Gordon Clements1988-
John Matthews–2015
Peter Knight2015–2022
Barnaby Ash2024–

House System

In its seventy year history, the school has often had a house-system. The first Head Master, J.S. Hellier, a committed Christian socialist, inaugurated the first eight houses: Lawrence, Southey, Tyndale, Müller, Carpenter, Blackwell, Brunel and Kingsley. [23] In around 1970, owing to the growing size of the school, Fry House and Plimsoll House were added. Pupils would dine in their houses in house-rooms. [23]

After J.S. Hellier's retirement, the houses were renamed after birds of prey, including Osprey, Falcon, Eagle and Kestrel, before the system fell into disuse. After the school's rebuilding in 2008, Brislington Enterprise College briefly restored the house-system with five houses named after big cats: Cougar, Jaguar, Lynx, Panther, Puma. [23]

Alumni

Brislington Comprehensive School

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