Two hundred pupils aged eleven to thirteen have just finished taking part in the College’s annual St Bede’s Reads, a sponsored “Readathon” for charity. This year the event raised a staggering £2,556, breaking through the £12,000 barrier for the amount raised since 2001. This year the College has again decided to use the money to [...]
The PFA would like to thank everyone who attended the Annual Dinner Dance at the Victoria & Albert Hotel in Manchester on Saturday 7th May. The evening was a huge success and Victor Haynes entertained everyone with some excellent music. During the evening a silent auction was held and the total raised for the evening was £3600.
Well done to all our winners January Paul Thompson £50 Bernadette Denney £25 Sandra Henry £20 February Simon Shires £50 Peter Loader £25 Olusayo Philips £20 March Julie Ball £50 G.Feeney £25 Nualla Halligan £20 April David Campbell £50 Geraldine Kennedy £25 Elizabeth Foster £20 if you would like to know more about the 900 club go to the PFA page
Girls sports teams have won 10 trophies so far this season in netball, hockey, cross country and indoor athletics. A special mention goes to the U14 Netball team who have won the Stonyhurst Invitation Trophy at U14 level for a fifth consecutive year. The competition features all the top Independent Schools in the North West [...]
24 year old Katherine Conroy, a former student at St Bede’s College in Manchester, is currently starring in a new TV series about the life of Junior Doctors on BBC Three. She has just finished her six year degree as a Cambridge graduate, where she obtained the Cambridge Medical Prize for Psychiatry. The series is [...]
The Upper Thirds have just won this year’s Year 7 Division 2 Lancashire Gaelic Athletics Association Tournament, beating Broadoak School in the final. The Tournament, which has become an annual event, was once again hosted by St Bede’s College at the playing fields on Brantingham Road. The Division 2 trophy was won by Blessed Thomas [...]
The Run for Life has been cancelled this year. We are sorry to call the event off and know that this will come as a disappointment to the people who have entered, but with rising costs and a small number of entrants the event is not viable. Individual letters have been sent out to those [...]
17 year old St Bede’s College student, Gerard Norton has just regained the North West Catenian Association Public Speaking competition for his College. The prestigious Trophy was last won in 2009 by former Bedian – Daniel Callaghan who also went on to win the national competition. Gerard has high hopes of following in Daniel footsteps [...]
Maria McGoff and Isabelle Cox from St Bede’s College have been selected to play for the England Rounders Squad. The two thirteen year old students have been selected to play for the U14 England Squad, Isabelle as a bowler and Maria as a backstop. “I am delighted to have been selected,’ said Maria. ‘It [...]
Nsikan Obong-Essien, from Nigeria, is one of seven students from St Bede’s College in Manchester to have been offered Oxbridge places this year. The seventeen year old student arrived in the UK just over sixteen months ago to take up a place in the Sixth Form. He has just secured a place at Churchill [...]