Bristol Brunel Academy - Ofsted Report, Parent Reviews (2025)

The five Core Aims are closely related to the tasks and duties of SLT members.
While each SLT member has additional responsibilities, achieving the Core Aims and mobilising Project Teams to speed up improvement should be their top goal.
To strike a balance between strong, traditional line management that inspires, supports, and challenges improvement and a significant investment in unleashing potential by encouraging and expanding network collaboration.
The Core Aims are intended to empower the academy to pursue a standard of quality and attention to detail that affects the lives of all students. They call for doing things correctly every day while interacting and working with others to forge a bright future.
enabling us to stay ahead of the curve, to shape the future, and to be adaptable and creative enough to develop a reputation for fusing management and leadership; opening up new opportunities and futures for everyone who interacts with our Academy.
To ensure that every team and person owns and achieves improvement, evaluate thoroughly over time and with broad continuous involvement.
fostering a climate of connection and cooperation that allows for the open exchange of best practises, fosters an atmosphere of risk-taking, creativity, and innovation among employees, and has open doors.
Obtain a solid reputation for being a leader in teaching and learning research and development that has an impact outside of our academy.
In order to close gaps, extend the most capable, and ensure a depth of oracy, literacy, and numeracy, we must look into the essential tactics that will enable this.
Typically, excellent instruction ensures long-term improvement and exceptional results.
High levels of subject, test, and syllabus knowledge are displayed in teaching, allowing for the recognition of threshold concepts and intelligent, targeted feedback.
For certain student groups, such as Pupil Premium, SEN, and the Most Able, teaching closes achievement gaps.
There is a high level of group awareness, and instruction actively addresses gaps.
Teaching instils high expectations and aspirations in literacy, numeracy, oracy, and pushes the most gifted students.
The BIG CHANCE: Ensuring that students earn credentials that guarantee career routes and future success.
should take the lead in creating teaching and learning methods that help students perform well on external exams.
Use the intentional practise principles.
.. being diagnostic and providing feedback that fills in the gaps so that students can at least make a little step toward being fully prepared for assessments and tests.
Maintain a traditional curriculum that is geared toward helping students succeed in a variety of disciplines while enabling them to achieve the grades they need in the facilitating subjects.
When we seize this chance, we will realise that... Excellent KS4 and Post-16 Achievement; allows students to advance quickly in all disciplines; attainment is above national.
Outstanding Progress 7–13; permits good levels of progress for all student groups.
Class-level tracking is particularly important in securing progress and outcomes across all subjects in every classroom.
All students will make good progress and feel successful thanks to an inclusive, empowering, and personalised curriculum.
rigorous evaluation cycles Year 7 to 13 enables improved assessment, diagnostics, feedback, reporting and deliberate practice that accelerates student progress.
The BIG CHANCE: To set and maintain high standards for all students (and staff).
Increase the quality of pastoral care and enhance the Academy's standing as a place where all students are encouraged to grow personally.
Embed an aspirational and academic culture that inspires and ensures students value academic progress and the need to plan fully for their future.
Ensure a greater sense of belonging for students.
Improve both attendance and punctuality so that it becomes a source of pride and a reflection of our success.
Embed the House system that creates a sense of competition and a structure that rewards and values student achievement.
Establish a set of values that underpin all that the Academy does and believes in.
When we seize this chance, we will realise that... Outstanding and consistent pastoral care supports students to be aspirational and ambitious about their future.
Whilst barriers to learning are removed there is a clear and deliberate focus on learning and making progress.
There are strong academic and personal values; and a motivating House system embedded into daily life.
The Academy has a growing external reputation, influence and connection with the community and wider.