St Bede's Inter-Church School

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St Bede's Inter-Church School
Address
St Bede's Inter-Church School
Birdwood Road

Cambridge
,
Cambridgeshire
,
CB1 3TD

England
Coordinates 52°11′26″N0°09′45″E / 52.19051°N 0.16245°E / 52.19051; 0.16245
Information
Type Academy
Motto"Cum Deo" (Latin for "With God")
Religious affiliation(s) Church of England/Roman Catholic
Established1962, 1988
Local authority Cambridgeshire
Specialist Humanities College
Ofsted Reports
HeadteacherA Day [1]
Staff50
Gender Coeducational
Age11to 16
Enrolment750
Website http://www.st-bedes.org.uk

St Bede's Inter-Church School (formerly St Bede's Inter-Church Comprehensive School) is the only Christian state secondary school in Cambridgeshire. It is an academy school with support from both the Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia and Anglican Diocese of Ely. The school currently has around 750 pupils and around 50 staff.

History

St Bede's opened in 1962 as a small Roman Catholic secondary school housed in one central building, under the leadership of headmaster K.G. Kent and around 18 nuns teaching and running the school. Over the years, the school began to admit students from other Christian denominations, notably the Anglican Church. In the light of the increasing ecumenical co-operation between the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches the school was closed, re-opening in 1988 as a joint Catholic/Anglican foundation, St Bedes Inter-Church Comprehensive School, retaining most of the original staff, including the nuns, but with a new management.[ citation needed ]

Since then the school has expanded and additional buildings have been added; first a technology block, housing Food Technology, Textiles Technology and Design Technology, although now also hosts Information Technology; then the St Etheldreda block, a suite of 12 general-purpose classrooms (the "B Block") in 1995. Three science laboratories were refurbished in 2001; in 2003, four new English classrooms, a purpose built drama and dance studio and purpose built music rooms were added and in 2005 a state of the art Sports Hall including teaching rooms and tennis courts brought the school to its present state. Due to the increasing popularity and expansion of the school the site continued to need mobile classrooms to cope with the demand for teaching space. The latest £4m development began in August 2008, aiming to replace all mobile classrooms with six teaching rooms, two new art rooms and a digital media centre, a chaplaincy and more refurbished science labs. The new Art and Chaplaincy building has been connected to the technology and English/music/drama building to create one large building which can be walked through when raining; covered walkways will be added between the main block and "B" block, the only building which now stands alone.[ citation needed ]

In 2004 the school had its last full OFSTED inspection, and was designated as mainly satisfactory, but served with notice to improve subjects such as music and food technology. [2]

The school gained Humanities Specialist Status in September 2005 with History as the lead subject and Geography/Religious Education in support. In 2009 the school was invited to apply for a second specialism in light of the school's success in the Humanities department. The choice was Maths & Computing: the Maths department had previously been nominated as a consultant Maths department. [3]

The school's 2007 OFSTED inspection judged it to be "a good school with outstanding features". RE, Resistant Materials and ICT were noted to have lower achievement than other subjects in the school. [4] After the inspection, Resistant Materials lost its status as an independent subject and, in 2008, new heads of department were appointed for RE and ICT. [5]

In 2011, the school was re-inspected by OFSTED and designated as Outstanding in all areas except behaviour and overall quality of teaching, which it was advised to improve. [6] [7]

The school converted to academy status in August 2012.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. ↑ "Our School". St Bede's Inter-Church School. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  2. ↑ http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/oxedu_reports/download/(id)/52267/(as)/110887_268458.pdf [ dead link ]
  3. ↑ http://www.st-bedes.org.uk/Websites/stbedes/Images/exam-results.pdf, from school website
  4. ↑ http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/oxedu_reports/display/(id)/90434 [ dead link ]
  5. ↑ "School Overview - St Bede's Inter-Church School : Directgov". Archived from the original on 26 March 2012. Retrieved 9 June 2009.
  6. ↑ http://stbedes.publishpath.com/ofsted-report
  7. ↑ http://stbedes.publishpath.com/Websites/stbedes/Images/Ofsted/St%20Bede's%202011%20Ofsted%20Report,%20Final.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
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