St Bede's Catholic College

St Bede's Catholic College is a secondary school located in Lawrence Weston, Bristol, England. Since November 2011 it has been an Academy.[1] The school also received a rating of outstanding during an Ofsted inspection in 2007.[2] St Bede's takes students from Weston-super-Mare, Clevedon, Nailsea, Central Bristol, Bristol's outer suburbs, and most of South Gloucestershire. It has a strong partnership with St Brendan's Sixth Form College in Brislington.

St Bede's Catholic College
Address
Long Cross Bristol , BS11 0SU England
Coordinates	51.505163°N 2.65646°W / 51.505163; -2.65646
Information
Type	Secondary Academy
Motto	In novitiate vitae
Religious affiliation(s)	Roman Catholic
Established	2011
Department for Education URN	137627 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Principal	Garry Maher
Gender	Mixed
Age	11 to 18
Enrolment	1039
Capacity	1042
Houses	Bell Burnell, Descartes, Pasteur and Seacole
Colour(s)	Red, Blue, Green and Yellow
Website	http://www.stbedescc.org/

The school was awarded a green flag in the Eco School Awards in July 2004.[3]

Improvements include ICT rooms built in 2004 and the lecture theatre in 2005. Also, more recently, a large block of specialist Art, Food and Design and Technology classrooms were built by Skanska in 2009.

As of 4 July 2012, St. Bede's were granted planning permission to build a Sixth Form building.[4] The project was successfully completed in 2015.

In July 2017 the College Principal Ms Catherine Hughes announced she was retiring after 22 years of service to the college. The Recipient who took over this role is Mr Garry Maher and is still the Principal to this current date.

In 2018 The Sixth form block expanded to have a new computer rooms for the sixth form students and with this addition was the new Galieo Science Block which contains 2 Classrooms and 4 Science Las.