Thought for the week: 30th June/1st July 2022 Jesus said “This is what the Kingdom of God is like. A man throws seed on the land. Night and day, while he sleeps, when he is awake the seed is sprouting and growing; how, he does not know. Of its own Read more…
Hello everyone, I hope you are well. May the Lord in His love bless and guide us as we walk confidently in His grace and blessings. Welcome to our Spiritual Lift for the next few days. May it bless and encourage you as you read, ponder, pray and reflect. Month Read more…
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The return of the District Athletics competition took place on Friday 24th June, after a long awaited 3-year absence, due to COVID. Pupils from St Bede’s had been working extremely hard during their PE lessons and after school track and field practice to get ready for this day and were Read more…
On Tuesday 21June, pupils from Year 6 entered a District Cricket Competition at Redditch Cricket Club. They took on teams from Birchensale, Woodfield and Ipsley in a Dynamo pairs format. All of our pupils contributed expertly in each of our games, demonstrating effective batting, bowling and teamwork. This led to Read more…
Hello everyone, hope you are well today, and your week is going well for you so far. Here is our Weekly Spiritual Lift for your blessing and encouragement this week. As we read through our reflections for this week, may the Lord in His love bless and guide us as Read more…
St Bede’s Singers were delighted to perform in the Redditch Gotta Sing Concert at The Palace Theatre last night. They performed some of their favourite repertoire; Eye of the Tiger, True Colours, Toto Africa and Bring it all back to you. They sang with energy and enthusiasm and clearly loved Read more…
Last Saturday, three Year 8 girls from St Bede’s represented Redditch at the Minor Counties Athletics Competition! Freya qualified for the 100m and Long jump, Celia for the 800m and Maya for the 200m. Although none of the girls qualified for the next round they did brilliantly to get this Read more…
This week it was time for the Year 8s to join the Year 7 at the Junior NBA Regional Finals held at the Worcester Arena. The standard was very high and the boys had to really raise their game to be competitive. St Bede’s lost their first game to a Read more…
A huge congratulations to our Bishop Challoner Schools Direct student teachers who marked the completion of their course and all their hard work with a celebration event yesterday at Bishop Challoner Training School Alliance. An extra well done to Miss Holbrook for achieving the Sue Rossi Award. This award is Read more…
Hello everyone, hope you are well today. Here is our Weekly Spiritual Lift for your blessing and encouragement this week. As we step out into a new week, may the Lord in His love bless and guide us as we walk confidently in His grace and blessings. Welcome to our Read more…
On Friday, we took a group of 8 KS2 pupils to take part in the District Tennis Competition at Redditch Tennis Club. Although the team were two members down, they performed really well over a number of different skills stations and showed some great potential! The team finished 4th overall Read more…
Hello everyone, good morning to you. I hope you are well as we begin another week together. May the inspiration and light of the Holy Spirit of God guide and strengthen you every day as we begin our new week. May it be filled with grace and exciting activities for Read more…
Pentecost Novena (Nine Days of Prayer) from 27th May until 5th June 2022 ‘Novena’ is a Latin word meaning ‘nine and from now until the Feast of Pentecost we can pray a special Novena of nine days of prayer, asking the Holy Spirit to come upon us and inflame our Read more…
Ascension of the Lord Jesus Christ “Then he, (Jesus), took them out as far as the outskirts of Bethany, and lifting up his hands he blessed them. Now as he blessed them, he withdrew from them and was carried up to heaven.” Luke 24:50,51 We celebrated the joyous solemnity of Read more…
Birmingham City University visited St Bede’s to speak to some of our Year 5 and 6 pupils yesterday. This was a fantastic opportunity for pupils; they had a virtual tour of the site and they discussed various routes into university and how this experience can give us independence, freedom and Read more…
Yesterday, Mr Stenning took 11 Year 8 girls to take part in a County Basketball Tournament at Worcester University. The girls did exceptionally well and played some great basketball. Out of the 7 teams in each of the girls’ groups they both managed to come away in 3rd place overall! Read more…
Looking back at a fantastic day with some of our Year 8 students presenting their sustainability project “The Greenest Town Possible” as part of their Junior Apprentice Project. The students presented an extremely informative PowerPoint looking at lots of ways to to live greener. Well done to Stanley, Ayomide, Callum, Read more…
Hello everyone, good morning to you. I hope you are well as we begin another week together. May the inspiration and light of the Holy Spirit of God guide and strengthen you every day as we begin our new week. May it be filled with grace and exciting opportunities for Read more…
Today, we took 10 Year 5 boys to the District Cricket Tournament at Redditch Cricket Club. The standard was very high and in the pairs cricket format meant all the teams were evenly matched in every game. St Bede’s played some really good stuff and, if it wasn’t for some Read more…
Jesus speaks of the promised Holy Spirit. Jesus said, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word and my Father will love him, and we shall come to him and make our home in him. But the advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name Read more…
Good morning, everyone, hello and I hope you are well today. May God’s life-giving Holy Spirit help and guide us in all we do every day this week. Welcome to our Spiritual Lift for the week beginning 16th May 2022. May it bless and encourage you in your walk with the Lord Read more…
Friday 27 May is our next SMSVC day of the year, where we cover elements of the PSHE curriculum. Pupils will need to be in normal school uniform. Below is a brief outline of the topics that will be covered during the day by each year group. The theme for Read more…
On Friday, we took 16 KS3 pupils to compete in the District Orienteering Competition. Pupils were tasked with finding to correct numbers at each station all over the school site at Woodfield and then had to correctly identify the answers to a Maths question each time. St Bede’s did really Read more…
Friday 13th May God is Love. Weekly prayer and scripture reflection: Here is this week’s scripture for reading and meditating upon. This week’s Scripture comes from: St John’s Gospel, Chapter 13 verse 34. NRSV Jesus said, “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I Read more…
On Tuesday, Mr Stenning and Mrs O’Malley took our Year 8s to the first round of the National Athletics Competition at the Ryland Centre. Pupils were a credit to the school and all did their absolute best for the team. Read more…
Good morning, everyone, hello and I hope you are well today. As we begin another new week, may God’s life-giving Holy Spirit help and guide us in all we do. Welcome to our Spiritual Lift for the week beginning 9 May 2022. May it bless and encourage you in your walk with Read more…
Wow! This competition was worth waiting for! The Year 6 Netball team have waited 6 weeks and have endured 2 cancelled tournament dates to play today. The energy from all sides was electric and, after some heavily contested matches, they managed to secure the runners-up position in the District Competition, Read more…
Good morning, everyone, hello and I hope you are well today. As we begin another new week, may God’s life-giving Holy Spirit help and guide us in all we do. This week we have begun a new month and a new prayer focus so there is lots happening in our Read more…
Sad times today with our final morning at Skern Lodge. Lots of pupils were up on the high ropes or in the tunnels conquering their fears and taking controlled risks! Pupils have all developed their resilience, independence and teamwork skills and we’ve really seen them turn into as young adults. Read more…
The sad realisation of the trip coming to an end has started to hit home! All pupils got a decent nights sleep and this helped with their efforts today out on the water, with more kayaking and rafting as well as some more on-site activities. The sun eventually came out Read more…
Ahoy from the north Devon coast! What another incredible day we’ve had, with the sun shining, we went out surfing, rafting, tunnels, assault course and many more! Pupils are really getting stuck into life here, even though many of them will need some more sleep tonight! They are conquering fears, Read more…
What a difference a day makes!! After a long night for some of our pupils, we hit the ground running with more Climbing & Abseiling, Surfing, Rafting and tunnels! The Year 8 pupils have really started to engage today and make the most of the activities and opportunities available to Read more…
St Bede’s are delighted to announce that they have once again achieved Trinity Championship Centre Status due to their commitment to the Arts. Pupils have embraced the extra-curricular opportunities offered to them through clubs at lunchtimes and after school, through specialised music and art lessons Read more…
A great sunny start to the week at Skern Lodge for Year 8 pupils! After a smooth journey down to the North Devon coast, we had lunch and went straight out to start the activities; Archery, Zip line, high ropes & Rockets and Riddles kept the pupils amused all afternoon, Read more…
Good morning, everyone, hello and I hope you are well today. As we begin another new week, may God’s life-giving Holy Spirit help and guide us in all we do. Welcome to our Spiritual Lift for the week beginning 25th April. May it bless and encourage you in your walk with Read more…
On Monday, we took our three, District winning, Indoor Athletics teams to compete in the County Finals at Bromsgrove school. All three teams had to be at their very best in the competition, which was hotly contested! Well done to all pupils that took part, they were a credit to Read more…
On Friday, swimmers from KS2 took part in the District Swimming Competition at Abbey stadium. It was a close encounter and all the schools involved had some great swimmers. Halfway in St Bede’s were trailing by 2 points and needed to dig deep to pull back the difference. Our pupils Read more…
Wednesday night saw the Year 5 Netball squad attend their first ever District Competition. The competition was fierce; with all sides taking part failing to score in any of their first round matches, the play went from end to end and left teams in a stalemate. The St Bede’s team Read more…
Dear St Bede’s Thank you very much for your kind gift of £417.60 to The Royal British Legion. We really appreciate your support for those who have served with Her Majesty’s British Armed Forces. Generous donations, like yours make it possible for us to provide much needed help and support Read more…
On Tuesday, our Year 8 girls Basketball team, took on Birchensale, in what should have been the District Tournament. Instead of playing multiple teams, only Birchensale and ourselves attended the tournament, so 4 X 10 minute quarters were played instead. For both teams, it was their first competitive fixture, however, Read more…
Good morning, everyone. Hello, and I hope you are well today. Welcome to this weekly Spiritual Lift of the Week Beginning 28th March. We are now in the Fourth Week of Lent. Yesterday was Laetare or Rejoicing Sunday. The joy of Easter is fast approaching! It was also Mothering Sunday. During this Read more…
Hello everyone, good morning to you. Hope you are well today. Welcome to Monday’s Spiritual Lift. We are now in the Third Week of Lent and we are half-way through our Lenten journey. May the Lord bless and encourage you today as you read, ponder, pause and pray. Today we Read more…
On Friday, we took 12 Year 5 boys to the District Extended Football Tournament. This was the first time these pupils had represented St Bede’s; they played some great football and came away with lots of wins! Well done to the boys that were selected to play: Sam, Danny, Waiiz, Read more…
Josie’s dad has contacted up to let us know that the total raised so far is £1,059.00. Well done Josie and friends. One of our Year 6 pupils, Josie J, has organised a fundraising event to raise money for the British Ukranian Aid Charity. On April 11th, Josie and Read more…
Last Wednesday, two groups of Year 7 pupils represented St Bede`s school in the Poetry Slam Final at the Palace Theatre.. All pupils presented confidently and successfully their poetry raps to the large audience. These pupils were very enthusiastic and proud of their work, which they had produced during their Read more…
Good morning, everyone, hello and I hope you are well today. As we begin another new week, may God’s life-giving Holy Spirit help and guide us in all we do. Welcome to our Spiritual Lift for Monday. May it bless and encourage you today. We continue to pray our special Read more…