Our feeder school is
St Joseph's and St Bede's Catholic College
"..providing students with a thorough training in the knowledge and principles of the Catholic faith, combined with a secular education equal in every respect to the best public schools in England."
SBSJ was founded in 2014 by the merger of the two single sex Catholic secondary schools in the city of Bradford; the boys school St Bede’s Catholic Grammar School in Heaton and the girls school St Joseph’s Catholic College in Manningham.
The co-educational college opened in September 2014 and welcomed its new intake of 290 Year 7 students which increased the total of students in the college to over 2000, including over 400 in the 6th form St Benedict’s.
The college is now fully co-educational and numbers have settled to 1890 including 425 in the 6th form.
The college operates across the two former sites which are approximately one mile apart with the Ignis site (St Joseph’s) housing Key Stage 3 and the Key Stage 4 and 5 students at the Ardor site (St Bede’s).
The old St Joseph’s site has been renamed Ignis (Latin: spark) and the old St Bede’s site has been renamed Ardor (Latin: Flame) in reference to the college motto - Christus Lumen Gentium (Christ, Light of the Nations).
The college community lives out this motto through the concepts of Ignite, Illuminate and Shine. It is around these themes that the College teaching and learning is organised.
St Bede’s and St Joseph’s Catholic College is a voluntary aided school administered by Bradford City Council and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Leeds.
The college is located within easy commuting distance of Leeds, Skipton, Harrogate and a range of other towns in West Yorkshire.
We have excellent links with all our BCWCAT schools and look forward to seeing you all in our school or at one of our induction evenings.
School Website: https://sbsj.co.uk/
Help with Transition to High school
Parents and carers of children in Year 6 and Year 5 –
As we move closer towards the transition to high school this summer, or looking ahead towards starting high school the following year, this can be a period of mixed emotions for the whole family. Worries and anxieties may be heightened if your child has additional needs.
‘Moving up to secondary school for children with additional needs’ is a free, online course, available to all families in the Bradford District. This free course, part of the In Our Place course library, can be followed on demand, in your own time, and will help you help your child navigate and prepare during now and the time of starting high school.
As well as ideas and techniques to help you better understand your child, their emotions, and how to help them process or manage them, the course is also a support for the emotional wellbeing of parents and carers of children with additional needs.
To access the course for free, all you need is your Bradford District post code and the access code BDPARENTS.
‘Moving up to secondary school for children with additional needs’, is one of 17 online courses available free, on demand, from In Our Place. The courses support most stages families of family life. Other courses you might find helpful include ‘Understanding your child with additional needs’ and ‘Understanding your teenager's brain’.
To access the course and to find out more about the full library of In Our Place courses visit https://fyi.bradford.gov.uk/parenting-programme-pathway/#inourplace