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An 'Outstanding' school committed to academic, creative and sporting excellence achieved through dedication and fun.

Kingswood, BRISTOL
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BEACON RISE
1 year
600 children at Beacon Rise Primary in Bristol have been rather busy this afternoon. Look at what they achieved. ⁦ @BBCNews ⁩ ⁦ @itvnews ⁩ ⁦ @bbcpointswest ⁩ ⁦ @itvwestcountry ⁩ ⁦ @RoyalFamily #coronation @Coronation2023 ⁩ ⁦ @KensingtonRoyal
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4 years
A poem to recognise Autism Awareness Week.
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3 years
21 hours!!! Well within the 24 hour target. Miss Powell smashed it!! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
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9 years
If you would like the tweets to continue please 'favourite' (click on the heart) this message over the weekend to help us make a decision.
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11 months
Congratulations to our EYFS team who have achieved the Bristol Standard of excellent early years provision.
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3 years
How it started How it ended
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3 years
Mr White donated his leaving collection money to the Children’s Hospital. They were very happy to receive it today. 😁😁😁😁😁😇
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Congratulations to Mr and Mrs Hicks on the birth of their baby daughter. Great news, you will make a lovely family. 😀
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9 months
We are very proud to be able to share our latest Ofsted inspection outcomes with you.
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6 years
Unannounced inspection today! When asked why behaviour was so brilliant, one of our pupils replied,’because we’re Beacon Rise’. Sometimes there aren’t enough house point in the world! 😀😀😀
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Congratulations to Mrs Crossland. She has received the platinum jubilee badge for 34 years service - the longest serving crossing patrol person in South Glos. 🌟
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I can’t pretend that the last days haven’t been among the most challenging and stressful of a long leadership career. However hearing from frontline NHS staff about the situation unfolding, I can only admire from a new found perspective. Thank you to all doing so much, CT x
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BEACON RISE
5 years
Some happy news. Congratulations to Mr and Mrs Rhodes on the birth of their third child, Nina. We wish all the family.
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Congratulations to Mr Gibbs and Sam on the birth of their son, Otto. Mummy and Otto are both well and a very proud daddy popped in today 😁😁.
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BEACON RISE
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600 children at Beacon Rise Primary in Bristol have been rather busy this afternoon. Look at what they achieved. ⁦ @BBCNews ⁩ ⁦ @itvnews ⁩ ⁦ @bbcpointswest ⁩ ⁦ @itvwestcountry ⁩ ⁦ @RoyalFamily #coronation @Coronation2023 ⁩ ⁦⁦ @KensingtonRoyal
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The Keat family have a new arrival. Congratulations to Mr and Mrs Keat on the birth of their son. He is adorable ❤️ All the family are well.
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4 hours 34 mins and ran all the way! Amazing Zalo. TeamBR are very excited for you and can’t wait to see the medal. 👍
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6 years
NEWS JUST IN! The Race for Life raised a grand total of £5785- WOW! This is an incredible amount of money raised & brings the CareBR total for this year to an unbelievable £25,407.01. Thank you to EVERYONE for all of your support for so many worthy causes ❤️
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3 years
What a legend! Goodbye Mr White, you have had an amazing career and will be missed. Enjoy your free time and keep in touch.
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BEACON RISE
5 years
Outstanding rating in all areas in today’s South Gloucestershire Local Authority inspection. Teaching, behaviour, curriculum, results, leadership and governance all inspected.
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BEACON RISE
3 years
Happy retirement Mr White - we will miss you lots
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6 years
Huge congratulations to Mr Wills !! It was lovely to meet Betsy. Xx
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6 years
Congratulations to Keith Duller, our extraordinary site manager, who received recognition at today’s National Site Manager of the Year Awards.
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BEACON RISE
7 years
We use night vision cameras and CCTV to capture Badger Watch footage each week. This one was special!
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7 years
We’ve now heard from all staff who are home safe and sound. Have a fantastic snow day!
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Sweet Child of the Bus
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1 year
Elodie has just won a massive trophy at the Transplant Games in Coventry.
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BEACON RISE
5 years
CareBR will be providing free childcare for key worker parents over the Easter holidays. We were initially surprised at the large number of staff offering their time to help - but then remembered, they’re BR family. No surprise.
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6 years
BadgeR we made it! Is this the world’s largest badger.
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BEACON RISE
6 years
Miss Powell has completed the 50k challenge. Well done, TeamBR are proud of you. 💪
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BEACON RISE
7 years
Thanks to all the staff for working today and making childcare arrangement for parents easier.
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2 years
Our SAT results are 24% points above the national average before Covid. That’s after all the learning disruption over the last few years. Home learning seems to have worked out ok! Thanks for all your help mums and dads. We realise it wasn’t easy. 😁
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People run. Some people even do marathons. Some people run further. Miss Powell runs 32 miles up and down tors across Dartmoor!!! Congratulations on an amazing achievement from all us TeamBR members who look on in admiration.
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Well done to our amazing Year 6 children who have finished their SATs! They have worked their socks off this year and we are so very proud of them. 🥳🤩
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5 years
When you need people to prioritise the more important things in life like care, children and humanity- up step Miss Chambers and Mrs Leonard. Incredible efforts this week to make sure our families get the support they need at the most challenging of times. As always, amazing!
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Good luck to these lovely people who are taking part in the British Transplant Games starting today. Go TeamBR.
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At 6.40am Miss Powell started her challenge - to run 100km in 24 hours! Go Miss Powell 💪💪💪TeamBR are cheering you on.
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Thank you for being patient and helping us at collection time. It seemed to work really smoothly and this was due to parents arriving at the right time and following the one way system. Great staff, brilliant kids and lovely parents make things a pleasure.
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BEACON RISE
4 years
Only ten children did not attend school today and the reasons for those absences were usual occurrences. Your trust in us is welcomed and appreciated. 😃
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4 years
Thank you so much to the anonymous parents who have sent us this in the post today as a thank you to everyone in school! Very touched. X
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Happy big birthdays to Mr H and Mrs L, both celebrating their birthdays tomorrow. We hope you both have a fantastic celebratory weekend 🎂🎉🎉
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BEACON RISE
5 years
Calling all Year 6 children...your SATs breakfast is waiting for you x
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2 years
Today’s Celebration assembly will be replaced with a period of reflection and celebration of the Queen’s reign.
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Congratulations Mr Keat on your upcoming wedding from all at BR. We hope you have a happy future together. 🥂
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BEACON RISE
5 years
Thank you Mrs Crossland for looking after everyone at Beacon Rise for the past 30 years!
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BEACON RISE
5 years
Imagine if you were a small person not invited to a party that you saw lots of others getting an invite to. For parents, it’s always a tricky one as giving out invites is an exciting thing to do, but I’m sure you don’t want any others upset. Maybe worth a thought at party time.
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And of course., as usual, special thanks to the pack away volunteers without whom school wouldn’t be ready for the next adventure on Monday. With a 7am start for many who stayed throughout til the very end, once again, we demonstrate what outstanding really means.
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Enjoying chatting about BR with Bob our most senior ex - pupil. I’m hoping our pupils speak so fondly of their time with us in the future. CT 🍣☕️☕️
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BEACON RISE
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What an amazing delivery from a parent today. Thank you so much. They are much appreciated.
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BEACON RISE
7 years
Great to end the week with a letter from @NickGibbUK , Minister of State for School Standards. Top 3% of schools for the Y1 phonic test !
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Good luck to Mrs Zalokoski who is running the London Marathon on Sunday for the amazing charity - Off The Record.
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Happy ‘big’ birthday Mrs Crossland. Hope you enjoy your day. 🎉🎂🎂🎶
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3 years
Congratulations to Miss Bostridge and Miss Henwood. Both were engaged during half term.
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5 years
Congratulations to these brilliant teachers - first year at Beacon Rise completed!
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As we get to the end of what will hopefully be the final lockdown, we'd like to say well done to all the parents who have balanced so many challenges to do the best they can for their children. We're looking forward to seeing everyone. We've got it from here!
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2 years
Christmas greeting and a snowy welcome to school this morning at BR
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Bob, our oldest ex pupil, had his COVID vaccination today. Merry Christmas Bob! 😁
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4 years
Mrs Crossland would like to say thank you for all the lovely presents and kind wishes.
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BEACON RISE
3 years
All at BR would like to welcome Ned into the world!! Congratulations Miss Morris.😄😄😄😄😄😄😄
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BEACON RISE
7 years
NEW FAIR FUNDRAISING TOTAL SET AT ALMOST £5.5k! Outstanding!
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2 years
Well done to all of the year 6 children who have completed their SATs week. They had a fish n chip treat to celebrate. A massive thank you to all of the staff who arranged and collected this mammoth event. 100+ portions.
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BEACON RISE
6 years
Have a look at the brand new video we’ve made to show a day in the life at BR. Can you spot a little person you know?
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5 years
Guess who are this year’s county cup champions! TeamBR rugby. 😀😀😀
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2 years
While all was quiet with the rest of school in assembly, Reception went to Fern Hill to break the rules!
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6 years
Congratulations to Mr Rhodes and the rest of the ExploreBR team on achieving our latest award for science at today’s South West presentations.
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4 years
Our writing shed was inspired by Dylan Thomas’ creative spot over looking the bay in Laugharne. We’ve replicated the colours, furniture and hopefully the imagination.
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And a MASSIVE thanks to all the coaches !! 👏👏
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6 years
You may have noticed some less than excellent site management this week - Keith is slightly unwell at the moment and were doing our best to cover for the next few weeks. Bare with us! Come back soon Keith- we’re missing you !
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Thanks once again to our amazing staff. Pathway clearing started before 6am, positive emails and texts came in from 6 as staff attempted to get in and kids came first once again. Then the sun came out in more ways than one. ☀️
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6 years
Great to get congratulations on our test results from the Department for Education.
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5 years
Two weeks done! We think you probably deserve a home learning break (on the condition that no one ever mentions the length of teacher holidays ever again!).
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Thank you NHS!
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7 years
Oh wow! Approximately 686 advent calendars have been donated today for the @TrussellTrust food bank. Here are 'Care Club' counting them all up. What a lovely bunch you all are- thank you for your generous donations. We will be dropping them off tomorrow afternoon.
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600 children at Beacon Rise Primary in Bristol have been rather busy this afternoon. Look at what they achieved. ⁦ @BBCNews ⁩ ⁦ @itvnews ⁩ ⁦ @bbcpointswest ⁩ ⁦ @itvwestcountry ⁩ ⁦ @RoyalFamily #coronation @Coronation2023 ⁩ ⁦ @KensingtonRoyal
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Yesterday morning I walked past children singing amongst the autumn leaves on the bark area, a hall full of sparkly angels under spotlights and hundreds of Santas on a run. Still magical after 17 years as a head. CT.
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Welcome to Baby Cookie. 😀 Congratulations to Mrs Cook who had Sienna early this morning, 4lbs 10. Both mummy and baby are doing well.
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A special shout out to the staff who make it all happen, then have loads of fun with the children 🤣
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5 years
It was an absolute pleasure to spend some time in with the key worker’s children this afternoon. Kind and caring kids of parents doing kind and caring roles. If you have any guilt about leaving them with us, there’s no need. Your role modelling is making them lovely people. CT
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2 years
Congratulations to Miss Hodson who had a little girl on Monday!
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6 years
Chin-ups, pull-ups, muscle-ups, dips....callisthenics start here 💪! Or you can just pretend they’re bridges 😂
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5 years
HOW MUCH!?!!?! FBR , you are outstanding ! It’s official.
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3 years
Mr White!
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3 years
First child up and about at 0530 even though we said not before 0630. Staff now realise that ‘Telling the time’ lesson could have gone better.
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5 years
Newsflash, I’ve been selected to play for GB in tennis. I’m one of two girls. I’m very excited. Fantastic, well done and good luck from all at BR.
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5 years
Baby Hodson is finally here - a boy! Congratulations! Mum and baby doing well.
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2 years
This year 89% of our pupils achieved the expected standard in Reading, Writing and Maths. This is 30% points higher than the national average of 59%.
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5 years
And the very little three is a very big message. We made the top three percent of schools in the country in terms of our Reading, Maths and Writing results.
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We have a very proud person in school. Dad has raised over £30000 and has won the regional Pride of Britain award. Bring on the national competition!!
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3 years
Fantastic singing in KS1 and Reception! We love singing together💕
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5 years
Andy from Wild Wood Carving is doing something magical with the storm damaged tree in the Eco Garden this week. With kind support from @Bellwayhomes1 and @TradewindUK . Can you see the mouse taking shape in the wood yet? What others can you see?
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2 years
Mr Harrington showed Reception how to walk a catwalk this morning! 🕺
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8 months
Wonderful to receive an @OPAL_CIC Honours School award in recognition of three Platinum awards in a row. Made special by hearing @kimleadbeater MP talk of her happy memories of play with her sister. Congratulations to all the staff and pupils that have provided incredible play.
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At the current time, with staff now hundreds of miles apart planning content remotely, while their colleagues work in rotas to care for key worker children, why don’t you all agree to give them a break for a while. They deserve better. CT
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8 years
Next Friday will be our Children in Need fundraising day. We've been selected to represent all the schools in the country on the main show.
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BEACON RISE
5 years
Staff are currently finalising solutions to the potential lack of learning the current situation could result in. Incredible effort has gone into not merely photocopying sheets of things to do, but creating beneficial learning support our pupils deserve. Starting on Monday.
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Well done to the staff who make it all happen - here and at school. So much goes in to organising a trip like this. Thank you x
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