St Bede's Catholic College is a

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located in

Lawrence Weston Lawrence Weston is a post-war housing estate in northwest Bristol, England, between Henbury and Shirehampton. The estate is bounded in the east by the Blaise Castle estate and woods. It is at the edge of the Severn flood plain, directly bene ...

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, England. Since November 2011 it has been an

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. The school also received a rating of Good during an

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inspection in October 2021. St Bede's takes students from

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, Clevedon, Nailsea, Central Bristol, Bristol's outer suburbs, and most of

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. It has a strong partnership with St Brendan's

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in Brislington. The school was awarded a green flag in the Eco School Awards in July 2004. Improvements include ICT rooms built in 2004 and the

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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. The project was successfully completed in 2015. In July 2017 Principal Catherine Hughes announced that she was retiring after 22 years of service to the college. The principal as of 2024 is Robert King.

Notable former pupils

* Mike Barrett, professional footballer. * Chris Vance *

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, Jet from Gladiators

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Saint Bede's Catholic College Secondary schools in Bristol Catholic secondary schools in the Diocese of Clifton Academies in Bristol