St Benet Biscop Catholic Academy


St. Benet Biscop Catholic Academy is a Roman Catholic selective high school in Bedlington, Northumberland, England. It is the only Catholic high school in the county.

Patron

was born around 628. He served King Oswui of Northumbria as a warrior until 653 when he accompanied St. Wilfrid on a pilgrimage to Rome. He made a second visit with Alcfrith, Oswui's son, when he became a monk and renamed himself Benedict. On his third trip to Rome he returned in 669 with Theodore of Tarsus, the newly appointed archbishop of Canterbury. Theodore appointed him abbot of Sts. Peter and Paul monastery, which is now known as St. Augustine's Canterbury. He founded the monastery at Jarrow, in 682. His last trip to Rome in 685 resulted in the adoption of the Roman script and in many additions to the libraries at Wearmouth and Jarrow,

History

Northumberland used to have a middle school system and this was the site of the Catholic upper school. It was reorganised in 2000 and became St Benet Biscop Catholic Voluntary Aided High School. Inspections judged this to be a good school in 2007, 2010 and 2013. It converted to an academy in March 2015 and has sinced been judged twice in 2016 and 2019 as requiring improvement

Notable alumni