St Bede's Catholic College is a secondary school

High school

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 located in Lawrence Weston, Bristol

Bristol

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, England. Since November 2011 it has been an Academy.
The school was acknowledged as a "Beacon School

Beacon School

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" that has an "excellent local and regional reputation." The school also received a rating of outstanding during an Ofsted

Ofsted

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 inspection in 2007.
St Bede's takes students from Weston-super-Mare

Weston-super-Mare

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, Clevedon, Nailsea, central Bristol, Bristol's outer suburbs, and most of South Gloucestershire

South Gloucestershire

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.
It has a strong partnership with St Brendan's Sixth Form College

Sixth form college

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 in Brislington.

The school was awarded a green flag in the Eco School Awards in July 2004.

Improvements include ICT

Information and communication technologies

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 rooms built in 2004 and the lecture theatre

Lecture hall

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in 2005. Also, more recently, a large block of specialist Art, Food and Design and Technology classrooms were build by Skanska in 2009.