Minerva Primary Academy

I am very happy with Minerva Academy, and would recommend it to anyone. My daughter has been studying there for 4 years now. She is very happy there, and all her teachers have been fantastic - caring, positive, inspirational, charismatic. I have heard very nice things about the other teachers from other parents as well. The school offers free sports after school clubs, which is fantastic. There are also after school paid clubs. My daughter attends the London Ballet Company which does lessons at the school and the price is reasonable. It also saves me the hassle of taking her. We work full time and rely on the wrap around club a lot. There is always spaces, she is very happy to attend, and the prices are reasonable. They also take the children to play outside in the big playground, which I know not all schools' wrap around clubs do. My daughter loves the food they cook at Minerva. She always chooses the cooked meal, although they have a lot of great options like jacked potato with choices of toppings, and many others. The school is very international with children who have heritage from all over the world! This has been fantastic for my daughter, as she learns a lot about the world from her friends. At her birthday party, she had the birthday song in four languages- Polish, Finnish, Bulgarian and English. The school building is brand new, the playground as well, and it is very spacious, with nice climbing frames and landscaping. They have the scrap store shed with lots of toys to use at lunch play time. They organise great school trips. This year my daughter had a Clifton suspension bridge school trip, last year they went to the Wild Place. They will be going to watch the Nutcracker at the Bristol Hippodrome this December at a very discounted, affordable price. Another thing I really like is that parents get invited to join children's lessons about once every two months. Those are fantastic opportunities to see the progress the children have made. I really can't stop adding positive things this school has provided so far for us: special music lessons, which include teaching the children to play the violin(!), Dr Bike coming to the school and fixing all the kids' and parents' bikes for free, the school road being closed for traffic during drop off and pick up times, so the air our children breathe is clean and the road is safe. I feel very lucky that my daughter goes to this school.

I'm so happy with my children's experience of this school. It is a really friendly happy environment, all the staff seem passionate, caring and make the learning fun. The new building is lovely and the outside space is great. The wrap around is affordable and flexible which makes life as a working parent so much easier. The school also offer a mix of free and discounted after school clubs which my son has loved. My children feel happy and safe here.

Is it hillfields or used to be? Was OK when my family went a few years ago

Ive been there for about 5 years up to year 4 and this school is a good school i wish that I could stay but there was a family issue so I had to move forward to another school