In the Summer term of 2024, the school asked parents about their views on life here at St Bede’s. The extremely positive responses can be seen in the results below:
| 110 responses, figures are percentages | Strongly agree | Agree | TOTAL AGREE | Disagree | Strongly Disagree | Don’t know | |
| My child is happy at this school | 59 | 37 | 96 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| My child feels safe at this school | 63 | 35 | 98 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| The school enables my child to behave respectfully | 65 | 35 | 99 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| The school is a supportive and joyful community | 64 | 35 | 99 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Staff at this school are positive role models for my child | 53 | 45 | 97 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
| The school works well with the local parish(es) | 60 | 32 | 92 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |
| I understand the school’s Catholic mission and am supportive of it | 64 | 35 | 99 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| The school supports me in my role as first educator of my child | 51 | 44 | 95 | 2 | 0 | 4 | |
| My child enjoys learning in lessons | 48 | 47 | 95 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |
| The school lets me know how my child is doing | 42 | 52 | 94 | 5 | 0 | 1 | |
| The school supports my child’s spiritual and moral development | 47 | 52 | 99 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| I am invited to be involved in the prayer life of the school | 57 | 41 | 98 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| The school has high expectations of my child | 50 | 40 | 90 | 2 | 0 | 8 | |
| Not applicable (they don’t have SEN) | |||||||
| My child has SEN and the school works hard to give them the support they need | 10 | 6 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 79 |
School Response to results
We’re grateful to all of the parents who took the time to share their views about provision at St Bede’s this year. We do take the time to read all of the comments that are shared with us, which cover a range of issues. These are always varied and sometimes parents have alternative views about particular issues, for example, this year a couple of parents commented that they would like children to receive more homework, whilst others commented that they thought that too much homework was given.
Overall though, as the figures above demonstrate, parents are very happy with general provision at the school. This is very encouraging and helps us to determine our overall strengths, as well as any issues that we think, need to be developed.