St Brendan's Sixth Form College, Bristol

St Brendan's Sixth Form College
Broomhill Road
Brislington
Bristol
BS4 5RQ
Head: Mr Michael Jaffrain
T 01179 777766
F 01179 723351
E [email protected]
W www.stbrn.ac.uk
A state school for boys and girls aged from 16 to 19.
Boarding: No
Local authority: Bristol
Pupils: 1,725; sixth formers: 1,725
Religion: Roman Catholic
Open days: October
Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report

What The Good Schools Guide says..

Fantastic environment post GCSE for both high fliers and those needing to salvage something from weak GCSEs. Ideal transition from school to uni or work. Masses of recent building work has produced a harmonious, if brightly coloured, modern-looking campus, into which the few surviving but updated original buildings fit comfortably. It remains open until 5.30pm and has extensive computer facilities. Computer ‘break out’ areas (20-30 computers for general use) nestling in handy corners all over the college including…

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Curricula

Cambridge Pre-U - an alternative to A levels, with all exams at the end of the two-year course.

What The Good Schools Guide says

Principal

Since 2012, Michael Jaffrain. Originally from France and briefly worked as a bank cashier at the Bank National of Paris, before moving to England to become a language assistant at South Cheshire College. Thence to Shrewsbury Sixth Form College, from where he was appointed assistant principal at St Brendan's in 2010. Approachable, bouncily enthusiastic and easy to talk to, Mr Jaffrain likes to have contact with and personal knowledge of his students, despite the size of the college, and to be at the centre of activity. He has repositioned the college’s academic status by terminating level 1 (sub GCSE) entry, which was very small and ‘which other more specialist institutions can do better’, and ‘concentrated on raising the aspirations of students at level 2 (GCSE etc) and level 3 (A level etc)’. Amongst all...

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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)

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Results by exam and subject

Subject results

Entry/Exit

Special Education Needs

We have a learning support unit with one to one work rooms plus a drop in IT Centre for all, manned by Learning Support staff. 09-09 with

Condition	Provision for in school
ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Aspergers	Y
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders	Y
CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia
Dyscalculia
Dysgraphia
Dyslexia
Dyspraxia
English as an additional language (EAL)
Genetic
Has an entry in the Autism Services Directory
Has SEN unit or class	Y
HI - Hearing Impairment
Hospital School
Mental health
MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty
MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment
Natspec Specialist Colleges
OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability
Other SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty
PD - Physical Disability
PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health
SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication
SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty
Special facilities for Visually Impaired	Y
SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty
VI - Visual Impairment

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