Schools to increase yearly intakes amid Bristol s shortage of places We expect individual class sizes generally to be around 30 in a secondary school, depending on the subject
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Some Bristol schools are set to increase by more than 170 pupils for the next academic year amid the city s places crisis.
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Two Leonardo apprentices have been impressing their colleagues with their computer skills while working from home in lockdown.
Dan Marsh and Oliver Kelliher-Swash were recently welcomed to the company after applying for Leonard’s cyber apprenticeship programme online and then conducting virtual interviews over video. Their only physical interaction with the company saw the youngsters collecting their laptops and equipment from Leonardo’s UK Cyber and Security Team in Bristol Business Park. But according to their mentor, senior systems engineer Damindra Gunatillake, the two have not been held back by the lockdown situation and have performed so well that they’ve been assigned live cyber projects.
A Bristol secondary school has adopted a black hair code, that allows pupils to wear afros, braids and cornrows.
Bristol Brunel Academy has announced it is backing The Halo Code, an initiative set up amid complaints that black people are humiliated at work because our hair is deemed unprofessional, according to the initiative s founders.
The 1,100-pupil secondary school has backed the campaign, saying it could help create a future without hair discrimination .
Around 25 other schools across England, including the £17,640-a-year Sutton High School, have signed up to the same code, according to The Halo Collective s website
Bristol Brunel Academy is the latest school to sign up The Halo Code, which accepts different African hairstyles in a bid to create a future without hair discrimination
Bristol school becomes first to adopt anti-discrimination hair code for black staff and students
“No Black staff or students should have to change their natural or protective hairstyle in order to thrive at school
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A Bristol school has become the first in the UK to adopt a Black Hair code which allows students to wear Afro-Caribbean hair in any style.