The Engineering Centre at Abbeywood

The engineering story on New Road continued after BTE Academy's separate school record closed. Olympus Academy Trust identifies the former academy as the Engineering Centre within Abbeywood Community School. For a family looking for engineering education in Stoke Gifford, Abbeywood is the place to begin.

Engineering within a wider school

The trust described the centre as an early example of a UTC “sleeve”. In practice, a specialist pathway sits inside a mainstream secondary school. That gives pupils access to workshop-based learning as well as the wider curriculum and activities of their school. The academy's historic website and the present school therefore serve different purposes.

Employer involvement remains part of the model described by the trust. In its account of setting up an employer forum, it identified possibilities including mentoring, masterclasses, workplace experience and project work. Whether a particular opportunity runs in a given year is a question for the school.

Find the right course information

• For the GCSE years, read Abbeywood's engineering pathway. It sets out how engineering fits with English, maths, science and the wider timetable.
• For study after GCSEs, use the Olympus sixth-form centres to compare subjects and locations.
• For bookings and individual questions, use Abbeywood's contact page.

If you are researching the change of institution itself, the merger timeline distinguishes the date of the trust transfer from the closure date on the government register.