Education

Reports

New Bristol care home for disabled children to open after St Christopher’s closure

The privately-run home closed down in 2019. Now the council wants to fill the gap with in-house services instead of forking out for expensive placements outside Bristol.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Black History Month

Watch: Vulnerability, escapism and creativity, my experiences of lockdown as a young Bristolian

Lockdown left young people in the city feeling stranded, dislocated from their usual connections. Here, a young aspiring writer reflects on school, writing and the new sense of self-confidence that grew over those months

Shaheim Minzie Priyanka Raval
Shaheim Minzie, Olumide Osinoiki, Manoel Bolutife Akure and Priyanka Raval

Black History Month

‘You need to see yourself’: tackling the national curriculum’s overwhelming whiteness

“Put yourself into their shoes for a moment.” Aisha Thomas, the assistant principal at City Academy in Easton, is explaining how the national curriculum is...

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Coronavirus in Bristol

Inside Bristol schools during a new academic year like no other

Struggling to access Covid-19 testing, helping disadvantaged kids catch up, and anxieties about another lockdown: Bristol school leaders speak of the challenges of reopening to a new normal.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Features

PHOTO: Integrate UK

Barriers in education: ‘Bridging the digital divide more pressing now than ever’

Lockdown left many pupils without laptops, it meant missing out on vital learning, school work piling up and stress increasing. As schools tentatively reopen, bridging the digital divide will be a key challenge.

Fatima Hudoon
Fatima Hudoon

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Sam Williamson, head teacher on education in one of the UK’s most deprived areas

Children's futures almost stolen, inequality made worse by algorithm and education in the time of COVID-19 in some of the UK's most deprived neighbourhoods.

Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media Rosa Eaton Adam Cantwell-Corn
Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media, Rosa Eaton and Adam Cantwell-Corn

Edition 22

Down but not out: Voices of young people excluded from school

Often marginalised, rarely listened to or understood, the Cable has been working with young people who have left mainstream education to give them a voice.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Solutions in Bristol

Bristol SEND crisis: from isolation to family

Amid a crisis in special educational needs, these parents are building their own community.

Fatima Hudoon
Fatima Hudoon

Solutions in Bristol

Bristol: A city of solutions

There’s already so much great work being done across the city to find solutions. Here’s just a few ...

Matty Edwards Hannah Vickers Arvind Howarth
Matty Edwards, Hannah Vickers and Arvind Howarth

Reports

Exclusive: Special needs school to close amid police probe into care home

St Christopher’s residential home closed last year amid a child cruelty investigation. Now the much-criticised day school will shut its doors in March.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Opinion

‘This feels like prison’: we need to talk about school exclusions

Too many children in Bristol are subject to exclusions, which disproportionately impact those from BME and working-class communities, and have been linked to rising youth violence. The system needs to change.

Bristol No More Exclusions

Investigations

Too many Bristol teachers are leaving the profession. They tell us why.

Amid funding cuts and increased pressure to produce high grades, teachers are leaving the profession, while pupil numbers grow.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards
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