1. St Bede’s Catholic High School
Open Evening 2018

2. Our Vision
‘We are striving to offer a World Class education that encourages our students to want to make the world a better place. We will underpin this vision with values of love, faith and hope’
Love
Faith
Hope

3. A Catholic High School

4. Why chose St Bede’s? Catholic Education
High standards of work and behaviour
Excellent Examination Results
Attractive facilities and good extra-curricular opportunities
Experienced and Supportive Staff
Caring, Christian Ethos
Highly Regarded and Popular School

5. What do you want for your child?
Happy
Fulfilled
Successful
Treated and developed as an individual
A rounded, whole person fully prepared for the next stage of life
Further developed in Christian and moral values

6. What do Ofsted say?
“Teaching is consistently good. Pupils benefit from their teachers’ strong subject knowledge and their effective planning of activities. These enthuse and interest pupils in their learning. This ensures that the large majority of pupils make at least good progress from their starting points”
(Ofsted 2015)

7. How do we perform? Outstanding Results 80% 4+ in English & maths
Attainment 8 score of 57pts
Consistently high Progress 8 scores

8. What’s our performance over time in our core subjects?

9. How did we perform this summer?
Measure
% 4+
%5+
%7+
English best 88 83 44
Maths 69 35
Combined 80 68 25

10. What do we do to improve attainment and progress?
Quality first teaching
Data review process
Developmental observations
Targeted professional development
Stakeholder voice

11. Tracking and Intervention
Most Able
SEND
Pupil Premium
EAL
Gender
Prior Attainment 

12. Extra-Curricular Activities
Educational Visits
District Sporting Competitions
Sports Clubs
Community Service
Public Speaking
Foreign Holidays
Musical Activities:
Orchestra
Choir
Ensembles
Theatre Visits
Performing Arts Festival
Drama Productions/Musicals
Musical Instrumental Tuition
Links with Industry
World of Work
Career Visits/Interviews
Visiting Speakers/Mentoring
Field Studies
Christmas Events
Library Activities
Art Club
History Club
Science Club
Technology Club
Foreign Language Conversation Club
Outdoor/Adventurous Pursuits
Exchange Trips

13. Sports Clubs

14. Bede Fest

15. Exchange Trips

16. Debate Club

17. ROAR Programme

18. Robinwood

19. Summer Fair

20. Reward Trips

21. And much more…

22. Facilities

24. The School Day 8.55 First Bell 9.00 - 9.15 Form Period
8.55 First Bell
Form Period
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
10.55 – BREAK
11.10 – Lesson 3
12.00 – Lesson 4
12.50 – 1.35 LUNCH
1.35 – 2.25 Lesson 5
2.25 – 3.15 Lesson 6

25. Pupil Groupings
Form Groups looked after by a Form Teacher ( 15 minutes each day)
Achievement Groups
English Sets
Maths Sets
PE Groups
Art , Computer Science & DT

26. Setting Process September
Initial setting in September is done using Key Stage 2 SATs
These initial September settings are only temporary
We gather more information on your child from September onwards in the form of:
Cognitive Ability Tests (CATs) and
Teacher Assessments
October
Maths and English re-setting takes place in October
February
Re-setting for all other academic subjects takes place at February half term
June/July
Setting review with some pupils moving to new sets starting in September

27. Admissions
Any child of any background and from any primary school can apply to St Bede’s
The admission criteria and the supplementary faith form are available on the school website or from reception
‘Other than Catholic’ pupils are fully integrated in school life and gain substantially from the caring ethos of St Bede’s

28. Definition of Catholic
Baptised Catholic means, within the policies and practices relating to school admissions, any child who, before the due date of application, is a baptised Catholic or who, having been baptised into another Christian denomination whose baptisms are recognised by the Catholic Church, has subsequently been formally received into the Catholic Church.

29. Oversubscription
Where there are more applicants for the available places within a category, then the distance between the Ordnance Survey address points for the school and the home measured in a straight line will be used as the final determining factor, nearer addresses having priority over more distant ones. This address point is within the body of the property and usually located at its centre. Where the cut off point is for addresses within the same building, then the single measure between address points will apply and the Local Authority’s system of a random draw will determine which address(es) receive the offer(s).

30. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
LAC
Catholic/Siblings
Catholic/Parish
Catholic
Siblings
Partner Primary
Other Christian Faiths
Other faiths
Others

31. Application Dates
Parents have to apply online via their local authority by 31st October and also complete our supplementary faith form and provide proof of baptism to us at school by this date.
You will receive a receipt if you hand deliver the forms and we strongly recommend that if you post them that you send them recorded delivery.

32. Application Resources

33. Communication
Further liaison activities for Year 6 pupils during the coming year at St Bede’s:
Joint Year 6 and Year 7 residential weekend
Taster Day for Year 6 pupils at St Bede’s
Parental visit to St Bede’s in June 2018 to give further information
Mrs. Harris (Assistant Headteacher) can be contacted for further information regarding transition events

34. Get help tonight...
Go to our admissions clinic in the learning resource centre. Ask the students, ask the teachers, ask the leaders and ask your children. Tours will begin from the hall immediately after this presentation SEND talk 6.45pm and 7.45pm in Room 20 from Deb Harris (SENCO)