BEDFORD
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TO CARE
TO LEARN
TO ACHIEVE

A relentless desire to achieve the highest standards is a hallmark of our school and we look forward, with confidence and determination, to providing the very best for each student in our care.

 

TO CARE
TO LEARN
TO ACHIEVE

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We’ve had a fantastic National Careers Week in our BedfordArts lessons too! This year our focus has been on the skills Arts subjects help build which apply to a vast range of jobs, both within and beyond the creative industries #ncw2025 #nationalcareersweek2025 #NationalCareersWeek #theartsarebigbusiness #notjustforartists #wearebedfordarts

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A fantastic turnout for our #LetGirlsPlay event. Over 100 female students from Year 7-9 played a football tournament this afternoon. Thank you to our Year 10 Sports Leaders for helping to coordinate the event and referee the games. There was brilliant engagement and teamwork on show - a great way to inspire more girls to get involved in Sport. 
Thank you to our guest Jo Platt for being part of our event, speaking to the girls and supporting them in their quest for improving opportunities for girls in sport. ⚽️ 💪🏻

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NATIONAL CAREERS WEEK 🧑‍🎨 👷 🧑‍🏫 👮🧑‍🍳👩🏻‍💻 
What a fantastic week celebrating National  Careers Week at Bedford. With form time activities, guest speakers, career talks, in lesson careers education, inter-form quizzes and our amazing careers fair. Thank you to our Bedford staff for delivering aspirational careers lessons, our Bedford Alumni for attending the careers fair and presenting in our assemblies. A massive thank you also to the organisations, FE and HE providers for delivering at our careers fair- the students have been inspired and are looking forward to planning their next steps! #NCW2025 #aspirations #CareerGoals

NATIONAL CAREERS WEEK 🧑‍🎨 👷 🧑‍🏫 👮🧑‍🍳👩🏻‍💻
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📚✨ Happy World Book Day! ✨📚
We’ve had an amazing week celebrating World Book Day at Bedford, and the fun isn’t over yet! There are still exciting activities and fantastic prizes up for grabs next week—so get involved!
🎨 Door Display Competition
Get creative! Forms can decorate their classroom door inspired by a book of their choice. The best-designed door will win fabulous prizes! Deadline: Friday, 14th March—so there’s still time!
✍️ Library Short Story Competition
Love storytelling? Write a short story on any topicfor a chance to win a £10 Amazon voucher!Plus, there are Easter Egg prizes for runner-ups! Submit your entry to the library by Friday, 14th March to enter.
☕📖 Starbooks Competition
A new library initiative to encourage reading! Students who quiz on 10 books will get their Starbooks card stamped, win an instant prize, and be entered into a grand prize draw for a £50 voucher! Starbooks cards are available in the library—so start reading today!
🎉 World Book Day Highlights!
📚 Our Big Fat Quiz brought Bedford’s richest readers together for a fun-filled competition in the library, complete with pizza and chips! 🍕🍟 A huge congratulations to our Year 8 Little Women team, who won some delicious Easter egg prizes! 🏆🐣
🧙‍♂️ Dorothy, Gandalf & Elphaba made special appearances, handing out WBD book tokens (still available in the library!), testing students with WBD trivia, and handing out sweet treats!
📖 Key Stage 3 Reading Lessons focused on working-class authors, with students taking part in our WBD short story & book cover competition. We’ve seen some amazing stories so far, and we can’t wait to announce the winner on Monday!
🎨 Lunchtime Library Fun has been a blast, with bookmark making, Poetry & Pizza, and Starbooks workshops. A huge thank you to everyone who got involved!
👤 The Masked Reader Quiz – Next Week!
A brand-new form challenge! Teachers will read an extract—in their own voice… or maybe a disguised one! Can your form guess who’s behind the voice? The winning form will enjoy a delicious breakfast provided by the Bistro!
🏆 Competition winners from this week will be announced soon—so stay tuned! We can’t wait to showcase your amazing work and success!
Let’s keep celebrating the magic of books and keep reading! 📚✨

📚✨ Happy World Book Day! ✨📚
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Thank you to ‘The Riot Act’ for bringing their theatre in education performance to Bedford. Our Year 8 students really enjoyed the piece ‘What went down’ based on road safety.

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