Welcome to Filton Avenue Primary School. We are a happy, caring and inclusive school and believe that everyone can achieve, everyone can learn, and everyone belongs. The school community is diverse and vibrant, and our safe, secure and aspirational learning environment provides everyone with the opportunity to participate in a range of stimulating experiences.

At Filton Avenue Primary, we have high expectations of our children, and of ourselves, and we are committed to achieving the best possible outcomes for each and every child. Our dedicated team of staff work hard to support the children at work and at play, ensuring positive attitudes to learning are fostered. 

‘The school’s values of collaboration, aspiration, respect and endeavour underpin the way in which pupils and staff treat each other. This brings out the best in everyone for the benefit of the school.’

We have created a rich, engaging, active and challenging learning experience through the delivery of a 21st century curriculum that provides all our children with the knowledge and skills they need to thrive in the modern world. We value reading, writing and mathematics and provide our children with meaningful opportunities, so they can develop these key skills during their time at Filton Avenue.

At Filton Avenue, we value and recognise the views of children, parents/carers and all members of our school and wider community, as we go together on our journey towards success. 

Dan Rodeck | Head Teacher 

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It opened in 1931 with 171 children and teachers. The building was extended and completed by 1933 when the school was formally opened as a ‘Sunshine School’.

Dedicated teachers kept the school open all through the 2nd World War, closing only during the Bristol Blitz when the army occupied the building or there was no coal to heat the building.

The logbook entry, June 25th 1940, records: ‘Very small morning attendance due to air-raids on the previous night. Children permitted to come late during the mornings, after broken nights. Daily shelter practices.’

The school still has the original log books that are a daily record taken by the Headteacher of the main events of the day. You are welcome to come and take a look.

In response to the growing demand for local primary school places the school opened a new site in September 2012, to take an additional 30 pupils to a specially converted wing of Orchard School Bristol. Unfortunately, due to falling pupil numbers in North Bristol our Orchard Campus closed in July 2022 – all our pupils and families are now based at the Lockleaze Road site.

The Governing bodies of the Infant & Junior School agreed that from September 2015 the Schools should merge to become Filton Avenue Primary School. From this point the school has gone from strength to strength.

Vision

The Filton Avenue vision is to provide all our young people with the knowledge and skills that they will need to thrive, not just in their local community but in the wider world as it really is, not as it once was. ​

Working in partnership with our families, we will help them to be happy, confident, resilient, independent and motivated; to use our shared values to make informed choices; to develop a life-long love of learning; to achieve highly and to the best of their ability; to feel valued.​

Values

Our inclusive values, which are shared with the whole school community, will enable us to achieve our vision for an outstanding education for all and to celebrate our diverse community.

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Trust in Learning is an education charity formed in 2008 and is an Academy Sponsor based in Bristol whose principal purpose is to create inclusive education communities that provide excellent education and excellent outcomes for children and young people.

There continues to be a degree of misunderstanding about academies and academy trusts. We are a charity whose civic responsibility is to help improve the education of children. We support schools across educational sectors from nursery and primary to secondary and special schools.

In particular Trust in Learning is committed to helping to overcome the inequalities between our communities so that every one of our children can learn well and can prosper.

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