Safeguarding Information during weekends and school holidays If you have any concerns during school hours please contact us on 01527 525916 or email reception@st-bedes.worcs.sch.uk. If you need more advice or support for your family, at any time, please see the following information. If the situation is an emergency, you must Read more…
Please find attached the following documents from NHS Test and Trace and NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire Clinical Commissioning Group. Parents with children at nurseries, schools and colleges – a guide to regular rapid Covid-19 testing Covid-19 vaccination: your questions answered – English Covid-19 vaccination: your questions answered – Polish Covid-19 Read more…
St Bede’s Catholic Middle School achieves ‘Centre of Excellence’ status with IQM On the 11th and 12th March 2021, we welcomed Ms Kenny Frederick from the Inclusion Quality Mark (UK) team. Prior to assessment we had to submit an extensive self-evaluation report. During the robust assessment process, Ms Frederick met Read more…
Spring Term Interim Reports 2021 – available on your Epraise Account now! Not able to access your Epraise account? Please email reception@st-bedes.worcs.sch.uk NB: reports only remain on Epraise for 6 months – please ensure you download and save these or print them off. Spring Term Interim Reports 2021
On behalf of our colleagues in Public Health please find attached the following documents: Letter on how to access free twice weekly Lateral Flow Testing (LFT) for household members and childcare bubbles – amended by PHE (v2) Leaflet on COVID-19 self-isolation advice for families Leaflet on COVID-19 self-isolation general advice Read more…
Pupil LFD Home Test Results Register – for those that signed up for testing via Epraise. If your test was negative, please repeat the test in 3-5 days. If your test was positive, please book a PCR test as soon as possible via the NHS website – https://www.gov.uk/get-coronavirus-test If you Read more…
Dear Parents/Carers, Bill Say, who is an Australian trained Psychologist, has over 20 years’ experience working within the mental health sector. His sessions are very informative and extremely engaging. As a school, we have had Bill in on several occasions to deliver CPD for staff around mental health and wellbeing. On March Read more…
St Bede’s World Book Day 2021 See all links for World Book Day – activities throughout the week. World Book Day – weekly line up wc 01 03 2021 Bournville BookFest | BookFest for Schools is LIVE! World Book Day – Plan World Book Day Token 2021 https://www.st-bedes.worcs.sch.uk/world-book-day-audiobooks/ https://www.st-bedes.worcs.sch.uk/world-book-day-reading-challenge/ https://www.st-bedes.worcs.sch.uk/world-book-day-booked-potato-competition-launch/
*IMPORTANT* Access to Parent/Carer Epraise accounts It is more important than ever that every parent/carer has access to their epraise account. Important parent updates will be put on epraise. Please email reception@st-bedes.worcs.sch.uk if your account is not active. EPRAISE At St Bede’s we continue to work hard to make it Read more…
We are delighted to inform you that Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Multi-Academy and Holy Family Catholic Multi-Academy have agreed to join to create a larger company. Please see the link below for more information Consultation – Our Lady of Lourdes & Holy Family MACs
Love Productions are looking for young budding bakers between 9 -15 years old. Filming would take place from July 2021, but our applications close on Sunday 28th March 2021. Interested bakers can apply online at – WWW.APPLYFORJUNIORBAKEOFF.CO.UK.
#getupwithgallers – Monday 22nd February Don’t forget to keep sending your videos and pictures into school for us to share on our social media! #getupwithgallers #wearebedes
Hello everyone, good morning to you. I hope that your week has gone well for you and your families. As we approach the weekend once more and also our Half Term break, I hope that you will have a safe, relaxing and restful time. May it be a time of Read more…
#getupwithgallers – Friday 12 February Don’t forget to keep sending your videos and pictures into school for us to share on our social media! #getupwithgallers #wearebedes
St Bede’s Pastoral Newsletter Spring 1
Celebration of Our Lady of Lourdes Feast Day – St Bede’s School -11th February 2021 To all Parents, Guardians and Carers Hello everyone, hope you are well. Today we celebrate Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. We shall of course be celebrating this special day in our own ways and within our School Communities, but we will also be coming together with other MAC schools to Read more…
Good morning everyone and hello to you all today. Welcome to a special Spiritual Lift for you on this Thursday. Today is the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. She is the Patroness of our Catholic MAC and the Archdiocese of Birmingham. Wishing everyone who belongs to the MAC a Read more…
#getupwithgallers – Thursday 11 February Don’t forget to keep sending your videos and pictures into school for us to share on our social media! #getupwithgallers #wearebedes
Booked Potato Competition
Hello everyone, good morning to you. I hope that your week is going well for you so far. May the Lord be your strength and support in these days. Welcome to Wednesday’s Spiritual Lift for you. Today we remember Saint Scholastica. She was Saint Benedict (Founder of the Rule of St Read more…
#getupwithgallers – Wednesday 10 February Don’t forget to keep sending your videos and pictures into school for us to share on our social media! #getupwithgallers #wearebedes
Wonder and Awe Photo Challenge One of the gifts of the Holy Spirit is ‘Wonder and Awe’, when we are encouraged to think about the amazing things God has created. Your challenge is to take photos that show where you can see Wonder and Awe in the world around you. Read more…
Good morning everyone, hope you are well today. Welcome to our Spiritual Lift for Tuesday. Today we remember a Welsh Saint, Saint Teilo. Here is some information about him from www.catholic.org Bore da! Wishing you a very happy feast day today for anyone who is Welsh or who have Welsh ancestry. May Read more…
A reminder that it is really important that everyone gets in their daily recommended physical activity! As well as taking part in our daily #getupwithgallers workouts, why don’t you have a go at our week 6 fitness challenge? They are all in the blended curriculum, this week it’s the penny walk. Take Read more…
Sally Gardner | Author of the week | Oak Academy (thenational.academy) (This book is not Quizzable on AR/Renaissance, but please listen to this lovely story and enjoy)
Hello everyone, good morning to you all. At the start of another week, let us ask God the Holy Spirit to bless, guide and encourage us as we start afresh. Whatever we face this week, may we know that the Lord walks beside us and underneath us are His everlasting Read more…
Here2Help is a community action response to Coronavirus (COVID-19) – from WCC https://www.worcestershire.gov.uk/here2help
As it is St Bede’s Catholic Middle School’s 60th Anniversary this year we would be grateful for any photos any one has to share of the school over the last 60 years. Any old stories would be great too! Can we request that any images and stories are sent to Read more…
As a mental health GOLD standard school, the well being of our pupils is as always our primary concern. During this lockdown, the pupils have been fantastic, working hard on the Blended Curriculum and many pupils attending the Live lessons that are scheduled daily. We are aware that in order Read more…
Education Mental Health Practitioner St Bede’s were successful in their application to have an Education Mental Health Practitioner based in school to support mental health and wellbeing. Many schools applied for this support, and St Bede’s were luckily enough to be a school that was chosen as a placement for Read more…
Lourdes IT offer a Student Device Scheme We have had numerous enquiries about purchasing laptops – please see the link below from Lourdes IT about the scheme they offer. Student Device Scheme
Are you entitled to free school meals? Feel free to complete the form below to see if you are entitled to free school meals. APPLY FOR FREE SCHOOL MEALS BY CLICKING HERE
Hello everyone, good morning to you! Hope you are well as we start another week. May this new week be one of excitement, growth and opportunity for you in your home and family and as your work and learn within your School Communities. May the Lord guide and encourage you Read more…
#getupwithgallers – Monday 25 January We look forward to see your videos and pictures, either on social media or send to school! #getupwithgallers #wearebedes
Snow Day! As we find ourselves having our first snow day in years and after all the stresses of various lockdowns, today we want the children to be children and have fun. Forget working for a day if possible – though you can read your book later when you come Read more…
Dear Parents and Carers, Due to the snow over the weekend and the forecast overnight low temperatures, St Bede’s will be closed tomorrow (Monday) to all pupils, including Key Worker and Vulnerable Children. We have consulted with the MAC site team and we would not be able to ensure that the site Read more…
This weeks Parent Information Video is: Top Tips for Home Learning. Please click on the link to watch this. TOP TIPS FOR HOME LEARNING For any further support, guidance or advice, please contact School.
Welcome to the Virtual School Library, brought you by Oak National Academy in partnership with the National Literacy Trust
Dear Parent/Carer, To support you through this time, pastoral staff have been working together with St Augustine’s to create some informative, short videos that can be used to, hopefully, help support your child during this time. Both schools will be working together to create two short videos, every half term. Read more…
During this unsettling time, our Early Intervention Family Support Worker – Jill Wallis, will be available to offer and support or guidance around any family concerns you may have. Her email address is: jwallis@worcschildrenfirst.org.uk or you can contact Jill on: 07717693367 She will not be able to answer any concerns over health and Read more…
Applications for first & middle schools closes on Friday 15/01/2021 Applications to first and middle school
Dear Parents and Carers, Firstly, we hope that you are keeping safe and well? We wanted to contact you regarding the live lesson element of our blended curriculum that starts at 9:30am tomorrow Tuesday 12 January 2021. We never thought we’d be writing to you as a member of our Read more…
Live lessons policy 2021 (Draft).docx Acceptable Use Policy